LAist: Hundreds of Tires Slashed in San Pedro

Marshall

Wed, 14 May 2008 10:24:00 -0800

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.

jrb

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:27:37 -0800

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.

Manny

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:48:07 -0800

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.

Zach Behrens

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:57:25 -0800

sam, I was thinking it was in promotion of bike to work week

samkim

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:50:08 -0800

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

DecafBruin

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:49:57 -0800

Someone was apparently envious of the attention that came with shooting out 50 car windows in Azusa recently.

jrb

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:49:37 -0800

Were they all SUVs?

happygomarni

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:42:20 -0800

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!

G Pro

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:29:38 -0800

Tire store & towing turf wars?

Manny

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:24:07 -0800

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...

Johnny

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:10:53 -0800

The people who did this should be forced to pay back the victims and then taken out and shot.