[brooksby]

Not cycling, and not in any way condonding vandalism, but there are so many people completely missing the point in this article:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/20661797/vandal-spray-paints-cars-cctv-leigh-manchester/

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Joyce Smith, 70, said she’d only had the black Fiesta a month …

The “appalled” retired office worker told The Sun: “We have no idea why we have been targeted.

“We have parked there for months and nobody has said anything.

“Where we park is not anyone’s property just a bit of public road.”

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[ktache]

It was actually a bit of

It was actually a bit of pavement, Joyce.

And for those out there who are hard of thinking, this pretty much is the definition of vigilantism, not making a digital recording of visual evidence for submission to the forces of law and order.

[brooksby]

Sorry, David: I didn’t see it

Sorry, David: I didn’t see it on your thread when I posted here…

[David9694]

see also Drivers and their

see also Drivers and their problems 

[brooksby]

Bmblbzzz wrote:

The first point to my mind is that a large reason this has happened is precisely because of articles like this concocting a “War on parking”. 

The second most obvious point is “Just a bit of public road”… 

That was the bit I found ‘funniest’ – “just a bit of public road”, as if she thinks that so long as it is not someone’s driveway or garden then she can dump her car wherever she wants (even on a footpath).

[Bmblbzzz]

Which has quotes from the

Which has quotes from the neighbours showing it might be a war over parking rather than on parking. 

“I’m glad something has been done but I would not have been so extreme.”

[chrisonabike]

Life or art?

Life or art?

[Argos74]

For those who can’t stomach

For those who can’t stomach thinking about The Sun, let alone clicking on their website:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mum-son-traumatised-after-nissan-25679422

[hawkinspeter]

And so it begins

And so it begins

[Bmblbzzz]

The first point to my mind is

The first point to my mind is that a large reason this has happened is precisely because of articles like this concocting a “War on parking”. 

The second most obvious point is “Just a bit of public road”… 

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