Those wild and crazy French

topic posted Mon, October 10, 2005 - 4:21 AM by  Sleepy
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not that I would condone that sort of thing...
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Sleepy
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  • Re: Those wild and crazy French

    Mon, October 10, 2005 - 8:27 AM
    I do not condone that sort of thing either, but I can certainly understand the frustration. SUV's are simply dangerous and design features are making them easier to drive, which, in turn, makes them more alluring. But at the rate we're going in the West, the same SUV owners' grandchildren are going to have a heck of a world to clean up, granted that, we survive.
    • Re: Those wild and crazy French

      Mon, October 10, 2005 - 9:08 AM
      Unfortunately if we have a government that allows something that hastens global warming, and excels the oil shortages. I do sometimes think it should be condone. Granted I would much prefer this to happen to a company property rather than someone's personal property.
      • Re: Those wild and crazy French

        Sun, October 16, 2005 - 5:28 AM
        if you feel the urge but don't want to be too vindictive, you can just tape the valve stem to the tire after you take it out. but watch what you touch that tape with!
        • Re: Those wild and crazy French

          Sun, October 16, 2005 - 5:52 PM
          Well, I did a flyer campaign in my neighborhood in my undergraduate days. I was sick and tired of folks parking their cars on sidewalks, blocking pedestrians and cyclists. So, I printed up about 50 copies of flyers and paced them on several cars on several streets in my parents' neighborhood that read:

          "Move Your Car, Please. It's Called SideWALK for a reason!"

          Of course, I didn't get to see their reactions in the morning because I did it really, really late at night, and I had late classes the next day, so I did not get up early enough to see the looks on their faces.

          It probably wasn't ethical to place something on someone's private property, now that I'm looking back on it, but that kind of thing is endemic in Miami: folks paking their cars and gas-guzzlers on sidewalks and bike/job paths. I'm so sick of it.
          • Re: Those wild and crazy French

            Tue, October 18, 2005 - 6:05 PM
            Leaving a note on illegally-parked private property doesn't seem terribly illegal to me. It''s not like you were doing any harm to the vehicle.
            • Re: Those wild and crazy French

              Wed, October 19, 2005 - 1:41 AM
              They're doing serious and irreparable damage to the environment in the name of vanity, and we're supposed to sit back and hope they eventually start listening to reason? These people are knowlingly spending twice as much at the pump each time they fill up, and wasting a valuable and extremely limited resource at an amazing rate, and we're to believe that they're reasonable people? As long as they know exactly why they're being targeted, I think it's great. Nobody ever said we all have a devine right treat the earth as our own personal pisser. Smearing a little mud on their car in exchange for what they're doing is hardly extreme.
              Viva la resistance
              • Re: Those wild and crazy French

                Wed, October 19, 2005 - 5:20 PM
                amen brother. if they hit you on your bike, do you think they are slowing down one second to help?
                • Re: Those wild and crazy French

                  Wed, October 19, 2005 - 5:28 PM
                  exactly. i've been hit twice, both times by women driving SUVs. in both instances they've glared at me before driving away.
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                    Re: Those wild and crazy French

                    Fri, October 21, 2005 - 7:01 PM
                    Amen. You know Hurricane Wilma is threatening South Florida, and it pains me to see these mega gas-guzzlers filling up in preparation for the storm. I don't own a car, but I went with my brother to fill up his 4-cyclinder Galant, and we were able to fill up, put air in a tire, chat with one of our friends, briefly, and leave before this family that pulled up beside us in a Ford Excursion did. My goodness! I mean, that was like a good 5 - 7 minutes just to fill up a tank? That is ridiculous! Only heaven knows how much money they just wasted. We, as a country-as a people, can't keep going like this. IT IS NOT SUSTAINABLE.

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