Anti-SUV Group Deflates Tires As Radical Action

[Webster]

Isn't this just a little bit criminal?

SUV-Hating Tyre Extinguishers Group Is Deflating Tires as Protest

This environmentalist group wants to make it 'impossible to own a huge polluting 4x4 in the world’s urban areas' by going around letting the air out of SUVs' tires.

www.caranddriver.com

Anti-SUV protests are nothing new, and have existed pretty much ever since the large vehicles—too large, to some—became increasingly popular in the 1990s and early 2000s. Those of us who were there remember the Hummer salute, for example. Calls for a ban on SUVs have surfaced now and again over the years. In 2019, anti-SUV activists protested at the Frankfurt auto show, calling out the "SUV-ization" of the industry. These protesters were glad to make their claims in public, where they were certain to be not only noticed but also apprehended.

Now, a new wave of attacks on SUVs is taking place way, way out of sight. Or, at least, that's the idea. As first reported by The Drive, a decentralized group called the Tyre Extinguishers (the spelling hints at the group's U.K. origins) is promoting the idea of deflating the tires of as many SUVs as possible to help make it "impossible to own a huge polluting 4x4 in the world's urban areas." By deflating enough tires on these "massive, unnecessary vehicles," the group hopes to cause enough "inconvenience and expense for their owners" that people just stop driving big vehicles in crowded areas.

 

[Nebulous]

Isn't this just a little bit criminal?

I would think so, but not sure. Hmm

 

[Bluezone777]

I would say it would fall under vandalism which is a crime. These people really don't get that their actions push people further away form their cause and do nothing to encourage support for it. Same goes for the people who intenionally block traffic of all kinds even emergency vehicles that are attempting to get to a scene or get someone in need of medical help to a hospital.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I wonder how this group gets to it’s locations. Maybe a huge gas guzzling city bus. Or I wonder how they get those iPhones and computers. I don’t think it travels overseas on a sailboat and Amazon delivers it on horse and carriage. I’m so tired of these mentally disturbed individuals.