94 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: This Is Not Your Father’s Holstein Cow”

  1. > Motorcycles require support or momentum to
    > remain upright. Cars typically have four wheels
    > on the ground so do not. That’s the joke, Sean.
    What would be amusing to me is if the owner of the vehicle being vandalized caught the perps in the act and blew them all away with a concealed 9mm. Have that happen enough and people will be much more respectful of other people’s belongings.
    > Suspect your pickup is a Tundra.
    My pickup is a 1980 Chevy. My next pickup will be a Ford or a Tundra, but not a Dodge or a GM. I’ll burn in hell before I support Obama’s policies by buying an Obamamobile.

  2. > I have one, it’s a pet. If I caught someone trying to tip it, they’d need medical attention, right away.
    If you can fit in a Smart Car you’re probably not big enough to hurt anybody who can pick one up and flip it. 🙂

  4. Good luck with the urban mentality Sean, it’s nearly unstoppable. They’ve not learned that just because it’s not locked or bolted down that it’s not okay to wreck or steal.
    It’s a smog related disease I’m sure.

  5. Sean said: “What would be amusing to me is if the owner of the vehicle being vandalized caught the perps in the act and blew them all away with a concealed 9mm.”
    Sean, buddy. Let’s not forget who we’re talking about here. Smart Car owners, packing a Wonder Nine?
    Well, I suppose its not completely impossible. There may be as many as two or three people in the entire world who own a smart ca -and- a gun, eh?

  9. Just to make it clear here, this is not the hijinx of rowdy engineering students putting a car in the Dean’s office or exuberant teens moving a mini sideways in the parking lot. These are drunks that physically caused damage to somebody’s property which is still a crime last time I checked.
    It is kind of like hometown fans celebrating in the streets and the idiots who use this as an excuse to vandalize the local businesses.

  10. Surely most people who drive mini-cars choose them because they think they’re stylish, amusing, fun to drive and easy on gas/easy to park. It would never occur to me to assume that the driver of a Mini or a Smart was making an environmental statement.

  12. Why do some assume that everyone who owns a Smart car is a preachy, greenie radical? Some people may just buy them because they are an affordable, responsible transportation choice.

  13. In Obama’s world you too can own a lawnmower with a bubble & call it a car.
    By the way the people who did this no matter the reason, are either sexualy frustrated or just plain stupid.

  14. …agreed John B, one thing we have to be careful here at SDA is painting everyone with the same brush.
    Meaning posters here ASSUME everyone who owns a smartcar is an eurowinnie enviromental puke.
    Well my daughter owns one, and she isn’t any of those above – and loves the little car. For starters the $17/month fill up beats the Ford Topaz she used to drive.
    It’s her choice and she enjoys the advantages it provides.
    So, please be rational in your postings, else you’d be judgmental and sound like the very left wing air heads you presort to not be.
    Me, I drive a F150 4X4 5.4 SuperCrew Lariat.

  15. > Sean, you seem to be filled with righteous
    > indignation on behalf of someone who has more
    > than enough of it themselves.
    I’m tired of people vandalizing my property. I’m tired of people trespassing on my property. I’m tired of people trying to steal from me (which happens often — put a large fuel tank next to the highway and watch how many people drive in to steal fuel when they think you aren’t home).
    The guy who shot the thief in the back who was fleeing on the stolen quad? I cheered for him and sent $$$ to his defense fund. If someone shot a vandal or a tagger I’d cheer for them and send $$$ to their defense fund as well. Those are MY values.
    Picking the car up and moving it into someone’s front yard I’m cool with. Good pranks involve an element of harmless inconvenience in many cases. What I’m NOT cool with is causing thousands of dollars worth of destruction to someone else’s private property simply because you happen to disagree with their personal outlook or choice of vehicle they drive.
    Oh, and worth mentioning: I do have a limited sense of humour. The gas tank by the highway is now left unlocked and filled with plain water. I come home once or twice a week now and find a stalled vehicle with an embarrassed owner in my yard. Despite Obama’s best efforts none of the vehicles currently on the road run very well on H2O. 🙂

  16. “I think it’s important for the public to understand that when you interfere with someone’s property and you damage someone’s property, it’s not a simple prank. It is a criminal offence,” he said.
    It is not a criminal offense.
    It’s a summary offense, nuisance in relation to private property and interfering with a motor vehicle.
    Probable sentence if convicted: A fine, restitution to the owner, and probation including community service.

  18. I can understand people thinking that the smart is an ungly and stupid car. I also think the Nissan Cube is ugly and stupid, but even in a drunken stupor I would never consider trying to damage it.
    As a smart car owner myself, I like my little car and get a kick out of driving 400+ km on $17 of diesel. While there is probably a significant percentage of smart car owners who are delusional thinking they’re saving Gaia by using a little less fuel than the average car uses, I’m not one of them.
    And I don’t blame this Edmonton smart driver for bitching a bit that somebody may have written off his car. Who wouldn’t be pissed if somebody damaged their property?

  19. I’m disappointed in the stereotyping by some of the posters on this board. To judge someone who you only know by the type of vehicle they drive sounds just ridiculous. Then to condone vandalism because this type of person somehow offends you is shallow, immature and close minded.
    For every type of vehicle made there are an infinite amount of reasons an owner would buy their vehicle. Sounds like individual choice to me.

  20. Re: the lickmuffin diaper wetting sermonizing.
    Being scolded by an indoctrinated leftist is like being tutored about chastity by a hooker.

  21. One of the funniest moments in TV history:
    In the first episode of Get Smart Don Adams walks ito an obvious trap. He says to midget Michael Dunn after looking at him up and down “So you’re Mr. Big!
    Midget, Michael Dunn wryly replies “So you’re Maxwell Smart!”
    People who would pay $20,000 for a Smart Car remind me of the foregoing!
    As a side note apparently Michael Dunn had a real life IQ of 178!

  23. Sean- I drive a big 4×4, but not very fast. I agree that a lot of oilfield guys drive way too fast. Beside the obvious waste, those lifted trucks aren’t very safe at high speeds. After logging several million miles, I’ve learned that speeding isn’t worth it. And, as DPaDOPE pointed out, judging someone on what he drives is ridiculous.
    Wait a minute. DPaDOPE? That one almost went over my head.
    I don’t condone vandalism, either, but I really don’t condone violence against someone who vandalizes a car. It’s just metal and plastic. It isn’t worth dying over. It can be replaced.

  25. It is more of a marker of those who have been taught nothing of value, who respect nothing, and fear no one.

  26. I’m disappointed in the stereotyping by some of the posters on this board. To judge someone who you only know by the type of vehicle they drive sounds just ridiculous. For every type of vehicle made there are an infinite amount of reasons an owner would buy their vehicle. Sounds like individual choice to me.
    Posted by: DPaDOPE at 8:11 PM
    =================================================
    you obviously never worked in the auto industrie, nor do you appear to have read any of the liturature on the studies done in this area. Stereo typing by car, dog, home, etc; etc; can be quite accurate:-))))

  27. “To judge someone who you only know by the type of vehicle they drive sounds just ridiculous”
    Hummer drivers everywhere weep in gratitude.

  30. GYM, I kinda have to disagree there’s far more than personality involved. On second thought a smart car owner is to too cheap to buy fuel and too lazy to buy a bike.

  31. > On second thought a smart car owner is to too
    > cheap to buy fuel and too lazy to buy a bike.
    Like I can ride a bike 90 km each way to work?!? And I’d rather spend $$ on a good hunting bow instead of putting it in my gas tank. The deer need thinning out.

  32. I believe I do have a sense of humour! In fact I kind of giggled by the news that some drunk guys borrowed a statue of the Virgin Mary in Calgary and torched it! Who the hell leaves a statue in the open anyway? I’m sure those guys were thinking that it’s just an icon of the delusional and has no basis in their reality. Besides the Church is Tax exempt, so it has lots of money to buy a new statue. They should have made a you-tube video so the fun can be had by all!

  33. Gary, apparently you’re not from Edmonton, so quick lesson. First off, beer makes people do stupid things. Shocking I know, but there it is. Second, deliberate torching of a recognized religious icon is a little different than intoxicated boys tipping over a car (I doubt they were sober enough to wonder “hmm, what do you think this is going to do to the guy’s insurance)
    Whyte ave is right next to the university of Alberta. Whyte is also full of bars. Most people I know have a certain image in their mind of the Smart Car driver, and believe me, its NOT a pleasant one. Take someone who happens to be impetuous and convinced that they’re immortal (any young person under the age of about 23), mix it with a generally tense relationship between two groups (the stereotyped smart car driver and aformentioned young person) then add alcohol.
    Frankly, I really doubt the tippers achieved much thought beyond “hey, this will be funny”.
    Drunken vandalsim in the street does not equate theft and purposeful destruction of church property, cause I’d almost be willing to bet my own car (but my little TARDIS is my mechanical baby) that the “people” who torched the Virgin Mary statue were SOBER when they did it.

  34. Sean, you’re gonna drive a smart car down hwy 41 through ultimate red neck cattle country? You’re a bigger man than I am.
    Gotta admit though, I am too cheap to buy fuel I just haven’t got too lazy with the bike…
    yet.

  35. what I find really, really, extraordinarily and uniquely offensive is when its the emergency personnel stand around cracking jokes about situations like this in front of the bystanders.
    they are PAID big bucks to attend to the situation sans editorial comment and not to turn it into an opportunity for some comedy improv.

  37. “Lickmuffing- I tend to be less courteous to anyone driving a foreign car. Not in a dangerous way, but less courteous. The way I see it, you’re contributing to the demise of North America’s manufacturing capability, and that will result in the end of western culture. Why should I make a space for someone with no regard for my way of life?”
    sarge here sarge has a ferin auto and also a baseball bat and a bag full of ball bearings just fer dipsh1ts like you

  38. Irene,
    Take your justification of the “boys” will have fun and shove it up your ass! Wanton vandalism is NOT Ok in ANY circumstances! I typed my reply as a caustic response to all the bashing of Smart Car drivers out there and thought I would show people that making fun of others misfortune is not cool. You fell for it hook line and sinker…….blow it out your ass!

  41. Gary, Vitruvius, I stand by “beer makes people do stupid things”
    41 or not, I’ll bet he was still drunk, mentally still a boy and I’ll bet he was thinking about playing a prank on someone and not about insurance premiums. Yes, both show disrespect of other’s property, but one was meant to be a prank, the other… well, its doubtful that stealing a religious statue and setting it on fire was meant to be a prank. Accept it, stupid people are everywhere and there’s no point in getting your tail in a twist about 1 car being tipped. If you really want to get upset, go read the papers in Amsterdam where unruly kids are picking up smart cars and tossing them into the canals (its more than one car out there, lots more fuel to get you fired up).
    And please dont resort to childish crap like “shove it up your ass” and “blow it out your ass”, what my ass and I get up to is none of your business and I’d appreciate it if things stayed that way.

  43. Probably Vitruvius, but with our justice system, he’ll be unlucky if he gets a slap on the wrist.

  44. “…what my ass and I get up to is none of your business and I’d appreciate it if things stayed that way.”
    … BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!
    Irene, that’s frickin’ priceless!!! ~:D

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