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May 13, 2008
Hundreds of Tires Slashed in San Pedro
Photo by david.nikonvscanon via Flickr
Around 100 people's car tires were slashed over the night, leaving San Pedro residents with an unhappy morning surprise. It wasn't until people gathered at a local tire store that they all began to figure out what happened. Police are not sure exactly how many people were victimized, but one person is quoted in a Daily Breeze report saying they were "inundated" with calls.
Several neighborhoods were hit, including those near 21st Street between Gaffey Street and Pacific Avenue; Ninth Street and Patton Avenue; Sebastian and Channel streets; and Battery Street and Cabrillo Avenue."It was all across town, from north to south," said Dan Dixon, who lives near one of the impacted neighborhoods.
The vandals even went an extra step and slashed tires of trucks at the closest towing company forcing people to call over to Long Beach for towing service.
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The people who did this should be forced to pay back the victims and then taken out and shot.
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OH HELLLLLLL NO! Honestly, it would almost be worth the price of the tires to go out and catch someone in the middle of doing that to my car. Almost worth it...
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Tire store & towing turf wars?
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wow that is SO awful. i don't understand people. why would they do this? i can think of a few reasons, but they're not good ones!
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Were they all SUVs?
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Someone was apparently envious of the attention that came with shooting out 50 car windows in Azusa recently.
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ok so either...
tire companies are evil and trying to force people to buy more tires
crazy people are cutting tires in forcing people to use alternative methods of transportation
i like the latter better, but not by much
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sam, I was thinking it was in promotion of bike to work week
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then they should have left a 10 speed next to the car with slashed tires. THAT would be a statement. Not a good statement but a statement nonetheless.
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The destruction of another person's property, even if you don't approve of that property, (ie Hummers, suv's, or cars in general), is not an effective way of encouraging the offending person to change. All it really does is to make the victim angry, usually strengthening their resolve to keep doing the wrong thing, and keep their excessive consumption habits.
It also robs the entire environmental movement of a moral high ground, and makes us all look bad. It gives ammunition to those people who disagree with us and want to make us look worse.
I sincerely hope this was not another of those types of incidents that were being perpetrated against those Hummer dealerships a couple of years ago.
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As a local, it's worth noting that all of these slashings took place in decidedly middle/upper-middle class neighborhoods. My personal sense that this is probably just an incidence of misanthropic kids, rather than some kind of political statement. Probably kids from those neighborhoods too - they picked a pretty safe place to pull their prank, in my neighborhood, they'd be lucky if someone didn't see them and shoot them.