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Re: Kill them - Vigilante climate activist group deflates Bay Area SUV tires overnight
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Kill Climatist Liberals
Dec 31, 2022, 2:20:02 AM12/31/22
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In article <stcm1u$t42v$1...@news.freedyn.de>
ignorant emotional democrats <utter...@cnn.com> wrote:
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> Seriously. Kill a climatist today. You won't be sorry.
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“ATTENTION – Your gas guzzler kills. We have deflated one or
more of your tires. You’ll be angry, but don’t take it
personally. It’s not you, it’s your car.”
The letters placed on windshields, along with said deflated
tires, are what greeted several Bay Area drivers on the morning
of July 5. The letters contained a message written by an
international group that deflates the tires of SUVs and other
larger vehicles in the name of fighting climate change.
“We did this because driving around urban areas in your massive
vehicle has huge consequences for others,” the leaflet says.
“We’re taking actions into our own hands because our governments
and politicians will not.”
The incidents took place in Vacaville and soon went viral
through Facebook and Reddit posts. This is the first known
instance of members from Tyre Extinguishers, the group
responsible, deflating tires in California. The U.K.-based group
made their U.S. debut over the past few weeks by deflating tires
in Chicago, New York City and Scranton, Pennsylvania.
“As far as we know, this is the first action in the Bay Area -
the first of many!” Marion Walker, a spokesperson for Tyre
Extinguishers, said in an email to SFGATE. According to Walker,
the group’s autonomous nature prevents other members from
knowing who is deflating tires and where.
<https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/26/41/47/22682066/3/rawImage.jpg>
This letter was left on the windshields of SUVs in Vacaville.
Image courtesy of Jennifer Martin-Sierra.
Lt. Katie Cardona with the Vacaville Police Department said the
department received one report on July 5 of a tire on a
resident’s Honda Pilot SUV being deflated overnight.
“We are aware that there are reports of additional tire
deflations on social media, but those have not been reported to
us,” Cardona told SFGATE. She added that the incident involving
the Honda Pilot is being investigated as a case of vehicle
tampering, which is a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to a
year in jail and a maximum fine of $1,000.
Despite the Tyre Extinguishers claiming to target SUVs in urban
areas — “You will have no difficulty getting around without your
gas guzzler, with walking, cycling or public transit,” the
leaflet says — the group’s first Bay Area deflations took place
in a largely unwalkable suburban neighborhood.
“We encourage people to target rich urban areas, but SUVs are a
menace everywhere. This is an emergency,” Walker said. Users on
Facebook and Reddit were livid over photos posted of the
leaflet, which garnered thousands of comments across the two
platforms.
“If they do this to my car which I need to drive a whole 45
minutes to work and 45 minutes back from work at 10 p.m. when no
public transit are working, well … [I’m] willing to take a week
off to hunt them down and make sure whatever they’re using to
puncture tires will be impaled somewhere on their body where the
sun don’t shine,” a disgruntled Reddit user commented. (Police
said there were no reports of vandalism to tires, and Tyre
Extinguishers’ website only instructs people how to deflate
tires, not to slash or damage them.)
The Tyre Extinguishers posted on their website yesterday that 12
SUVs had tires deflated in Vacaville, and encouraged members to
avoid “cars clearly used for people with disabilities, traders’
cars (even if they’re large), minibuses and normal-sized cars.”
“We want to make it impossible to own an SUV in the world's
urban areas. Deflating tyres repeatedly and encouraging others
to do the same will turn the minor inconvenience of a flat tyre
into a giant obstacle for driving massive killer vehicles around
our streets,” Walker said.
https://twitter.com/t_extinguishers/status/1524013913318346755
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/climate-vigilantes-
deflate-suv-tires-17293468.php
ignorant emotional democrats <utter...@cnn.com> wrote:
>
>
> Seriously. Kill a climatist today. You won't be sorry.
>
“ATTENTION – Your gas guzzler kills. We have deflated one or
more of your tires. You’ll be angry, but don’t take it
personally. It’s not you, it’s your car.”
The letters placed on windshields, along with said deflated
tires, are what greeted several Bay Area drivers on the morning
of July 5. The letters contained a message written by an
international group that deflates the tires of SUVs and other
larger vehicles in the name of fighting climate change.
“We did this because driving around urban areas in your massive
vehicle has huge consequences for others,” the leaflet says.
“We’re taking actions into our own hands because our governments
and politicians will not.”
The incidents took place in Vacaville and soon went viral
through Facebook and Reddit posts. This is the first known
instance of members from Tyre Extinguishers, the group
responsible, deflating tires in California. The U.K.-based group
made their U.S. debut over the past few weeks by deflating tires
in Chicago, New York City and Scranton, Pennsylvania.
“As far as we know, this is the first action in the Bay Area -
the first of many!” Marion Walker, a spokesperson for Tyre
Extinguishers, said in an email to SFGATE. According to Walker,
the group’s autonomous nature prevents other members from
knowing who is deflating tires and where.
<https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/26/41/47/22682066/3/rawImage.jpg>
This letter was left on the windshields of SUVs in Vacaville.
Image courtesy of Jennifer Martin-Sierra.
Lt. Katie Cardona with the Vacaville Police Department said the
department received one report on July 5 of a tire on a
resident’s Honda Pilot SUV being deflated overnight.
“We are aware that there are reports of additional tire
deflations on social media, but those have not been reported to
us,” Cardona told SFGATE. She added that the incident involving
the Honda Pilot is being investigated as a case of vehicle
tampering, which is a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to a
year in jail and a maximum fine of $1,000.
Despite the Tyre Extinguishers claiming to target SUVs in urban
areas — “You will have no difficulty getting around without your
gas guzzler, with walking, cycling or public transit,” the
leaflet says — the group’s first Bay Area deflations took place
in a largely unwalkable suburban neighborhood.
“We encourage people to target rich urban areas, but SUVs are a
menace everywhere. This is an emergency,” Walker said. Users on
Facebook and Reddit were livid over photos posted of the
leaflet, which garnered thousands of comments across the two
platforms.
“If they do this to my car which I need to drive a whole 45
minutes to work and 45 minutes back from work at 10 p.m. when no
public transit are working, well … [I’m] willing to take a week
off to hunt them down and make sure whatever they’re using to
puncture tires will be impaled somewhere on their body where the
sun don’t shine,” a disgruntled Reddit user commented. (Police
said there were no reports of vandalism to tires, and Tyre
Extinguishers’ website only instructs people how to deflate
tires, not to slash or damage them.)
The Tyre Extinguishers posted on their website yesterday that 12
SUVs had tires deflated in Vacaville, and encouraged members to
avoid “cars clearly used for people with disabilities, traders’
cars (even if they’re large), minibuses and normal-sized cars.”
“We want to make it impossible to own an SUV in the world's
urban areas. Deflating tyres repeatedly and encouraging others
to do the same will turn the minor inconvenience of a flat tyre
into a giant obstacle for driving massive killer vehicles around
our streets,” Walker said.
https://twitter.com/t_extinguishers/status/1524013913318346755
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/climate-vigilantes-
deflate-suv-tires-17293468.php
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