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Hummer Owner Gets Angry Message
Washington Post ^ | July 18, 2007 | Allison Klein

Posted on 07/18/2007 8:28:59 AM PDT by 3AngelaD

Vandals Batter D.C. Man's SUV, Slash Its Tires and Scratch In an Eco Note

On a narrow, leafy street in Northwest Washington, where Prius hybrid cars and Volvos are the norm, one man bought a flashy gray Hummer that was too massive to fit in his garage. So he parked the seven-foot-tall behemoth on the street in front of his house and smiled politely when his eco-friendly neighbors looked on in disapproval at his "dream car."

It lasted five days on the street before two masked men took a bat to every window, a knife to each 38-inch tire and scratched into the body: "FOR THE ENVIRON."

"The thought of somebody vandalizing it never crossed my mind," said Gareth Groves...

Now, as Groves ponders what to do with the remains of his $38,000 SUV, he has been the target of a number of people who have driven by the crime scene in his upscale neighborhood and glared at him in smug satisfaction...

Neighbor Lucille Liem, 37, who owns a Prius hybrid, said that a common sentiment in the neighborhood is that large vehicles are impractical and a strain on the Earth -- and Hummers in particular are a symbol of consumer excess... Liem added quickly that she does not condone violence...

Investigators said they are searching for the vandals but don't have many leads. Witnesses saw two men about six feet tall with bandanas or masks over their faces smash up the car about 3:30 a.m. Monday and then run off...

He bought the used 2005 vehicle a month ago from a dentist in Fairfax County..."I'm worried about what I do now," he said. "If I get it fixed, do I put it back in the same spot three weeks from now?"

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: econazis; ecoterror; ecoterrorism; environment; moonbat; suv
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To: MEGoody

Ah, that’s right. I forgot.

BTW, as far as I know I’m not yet menopausal. (38 is a hair young for that, I thought.)

Sure are a lot of sensitive SUV drivers on this thread! And I bet their SUVs are as clean as the day they came off the lot.


141 posted on 07/18/2007 9:10:49 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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To: Xenalyte

I understand your feeling- if I had an SUV I would be off-road with it every chance I got.

But to those who just like to drive one, let them enjoy.


142 posted on 07/18/2007 9:10:51 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: Xenalyte
(I’ve also been known to cast aspersions on the manhood of middle-aged guys who drive Corvettes.)

Well right now I am 35 with a wife and 3 kids so I cant afford a Vette, however when I am 45 I might want to own the car of my dreams and will finally be able to afford it.

Suv's look far better than a station wagon and have more room. They are also usually a better product. My wife drives a 99 Tahoe that I don't want to sell because its the best vehicle I have ever owned.

143 posted on 07/18/2007 9:11:09 AM PDT by normy (Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.)
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To: xsmommy

That is hilarious! I would have paid to see the XSkids take on those cretins.

Their poor child . . . heck, what am I saying? He’s probably gonna be so far right, he’s a Buchananite.


144 posted on 07/18/2007 9:11:46 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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To: Xenalyte

What Earl caould not handle, ol’ Johnny Puga can back in Big Spring.


145 posted on 07/18/2007 9:11:53 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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To: xsmommy
preach it sista chauffermom! ; )

LOL.

I saw from your earlier post that you have to deal with hockey bags. I have to deal with boys in football pads, which make even the slimmest 11-year-olds linebacker-wide.

For a while I've been driving a friend's diesel Jetta, and while I can appreciate the cost-saving over the Suburban, well... it's no Suburban. (And football season starts up again in just a matter of weeks! [Guess who got suckered into being Team Mom this time around...])

=: |

146 posted on 07/18/2007 9:11:56 AM PDT by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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To: Tax-chick
I worked with an actuary who restored and raced Corvettes for a hobby. It was quite interesting.

They're a lot cheaper than Ferrarris and Porsches and (some) perform better too.

147 posted on 07/18/2007 9:11:57 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
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To: battlegearboat

“thats the Chicago way!”


148 posted on 07/18/2007 9:12:08 AM PDT by normy (Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.)
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To: Mr. K

For all of me, they can enjoy away.

If their enjoyment of their vehicle of choice is conditional on my keeping silence, I’d say they have bigger issues to deal with than some broad poking fun at them.


149 posted on 07/18/2007 9:12:52 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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To: xsmommy; Xenalyte

Anoreth wants to put controversial bumper stickers on the Purple Thing (1997 Mercury Tracer), but I don’t think her Dad will allow it. She has a very aggressive attitude for such a small girl.


150 posted on 07/18/2007 9:12:52 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("A dependence on mass immigration is always a structural weakness and should be understood as such.")
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To: 3AngelaD
Sell the Hummer and park one of these in the dirveway:


151 posted on 07/18/2007 9:12:56 AM PDT by frithguild (The Freepers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim)
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To: Xenalyte

do they still have station wagons? btw, on my registration my SUV is listed as an SW


152 posted on 07/18/2007 9:13:26 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: 3AngelaD

“Neighbor Lucille Liem, 37, who owns a Prius hybrid, said that a common sentiment in the neighborhood is that large vehicles are impractical and a strain on the Earth — and Hummers in particular are a symbol of consumer excess... Liem added quickly that she does not condone violence... “

You know, this almost sounds like the “mainstream” Moslems....


153 posted on 07/18/2007 9:13:53 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: from occupied ga

Corvette racing seems to be something of a cult activity :-). This gentleman was over 50 and rather gnomelike, but he had a pretty young girlfriend. I don’t know whether it was the Corvettes that did it, or his mind!


154 posted on 07/18/2007 9:14:23 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("A dependence on mass immigration is always a structural weakness and should be understood as such.")
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To: American Quilter

Only if you CONFORM (and we know they’re all about “non-conformity”) to their “standards”.


155 posted on 07/18/2007 9:14:53 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: dfwgator

ARF! That dude lives in a neighborhood of fart sniffers...


156 posted on 07/18/2007 9:15:03 AM PDT by Axenolith (The Market is a harsh mistress...)
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To: Tax-chick

Good thing I don’t know your address, or I’d be sending her stickers that say things like:

NUKE THE GAY BABY WHALES FOR JESUS

EARTH FIRST - WE’LL STRIP-MINE THE OTHER PLANETS LATER

WELCOME TO AMERICA . . . NOW SPEAK ENGLISH


157 posted on 07/18/2007 9:15:03 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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To: 3AngelaD
"The thought of somebody vandalizing it never crossed my mind," said Gareth Groves...

Gareth, buy a clue, you live in D.C. the most liberal of liberal enclaves, you are riding around in a Hummer, the most hated of all liberal hates (because algore says it thus it must be true.) Your car is going to be vandalized because that is the way things are in D.C. Either 1. get a new car, 2. move out of Mom's place (to like (the red part of) MD or VA (past NOVA)) or 3. realize this will happen again because you ARE in the insane asylum there, get a lower deductible on your insurance. You live around people that feel that the state should own everything and Karl Marx is a better economist than Milton Friedman. This is the norm one should expect from liberal minds.

Cheers,
CSG

(Who does not display bumper stickers on his car for similar reasons (i.e. liberal vandalism))

158 posted on 07/18/2007 9:16:50 AM PDT by CompSciGuy (Duncan Hunter for 2008 - no flip-floppers or RINO's please...)
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To: AnnaZ
i am thinking though that you have not experienced yet the pubesecent STINK of a teen, if your son is only 11. OMG, even a suburban isn't big enough to spread that stink out! my daughters and i talk about buying some of those surgical masks like the nail technicians wear, in order to ride in a vehicle with those horrific smelling boys and their hockey equipment. wait 2 more years and you will be grossed out beyond belief. my son is almost 16 yo now, but the stink starts right around puberty....

Team MOM, bless your heart! i could stress just thinking about that!!

159 posted on 07/18/2007 9:17:03 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Xenalyte

Oh, that would make her popular in the parking lot at Central Piedmont Community College!

Someone let the air out of my tires in the parking garage at work once - I suspect they disapproved of my “I support the Nicaraguan Resistance!” sticker.


160 posted on 07/18/2007 9:17:07 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("A dependence on mass immigration is always a structural weakness and should be understood as such.")
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