Shocking moment vandal spray-paints ‘MOVE’ on cars blocking path of prams and wheelchairs in night time rampage (The Sun)

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    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.

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    brooksby

    Sorry, David: I didn’t see it

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

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    David9694

    see also Drivers and their

    see also Drivers and their problems 

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    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).

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    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.”

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    chrisonabike

    Life or art?

    Life or art?

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/painter.png

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    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

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    hawkinspeter

    And so it begins

    And so it begins

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    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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