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Happy Story - Tires slashed at military funeral - Westboro's

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-11-15 07:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 First time in my life I wanted to buy a beer for a guy who slashed tires.

Posted by penguin 2010-11-15 09:24|| 2010-11-15 09:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Slashing tires is wrong. Loosen the valve stems instead. At the rest stop BEFORE they get to the targetted funeral.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-11-15 09:44|| 2010-11-15 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Slashing tires is wrong.

I'll make an exception here, except I would rather have the best of both worlds. How about loosen the valve stems and also gouge a deep groove in the sidewall near the valve stem? Makes for maximum inconvenience for those WBC idiots both ways. The only thing they could have done better would have been to spray paint "Westboro Baptist Church" on the side so even AAA and Walmart wouldn't want to touch them.

Posted by gorb 2010-11-15 10:52|| 2010-11-15 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 ...They were supposed to be here at FT Jackson a few months back, then at the very last minute they backed out. Local rumor has it that a couple of the local cycle clubs (VERY heavily made up of vets, especially from 'Nam) made it clear that their BS wouldn't be tolerated and that the Columbia PD basically said, "Well, we might just be real busy that day...could be a while before we get to you."

They're bullies hiding behind Scripture and the First Amendment. They need to be dealt with as bullies should.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2010-11-15 10:52|| 2010-11-15 10:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Slashing tires is wrong.
When it comes to the Westburo Traveling Freak Show, I'd err on the side of making an exception, myself.
What about discretely pouring sugar into the gas tank?

Posted by Sgt.Mom 2010-11-15 11:13|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2010-11-15 11:13|| Front Page Top

#6 I can't endorse vandalism. Non-violent confrontation is the better way to go. Block these idiots, keep them as far away as possible from the funerals, and make enough noise to drown them out.

Posted by Steve White 2010-11-15 11:35|| 2010-11-15 11:35|| Front Page Top

#7 See, Doc, that's why loosening the valve stems is the way to go - no damage, just the delay of refilling the tires would make them late to the target funeral. Though soaping Westboro Baptist on their vehicles is also appealing.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-11-15 11:56|| 2010-11-15 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Its not a church, its a law firm.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-11-15 12:07|| 2010-11-15 12:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't slash their tires. They've been in town too long already.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-11-15 12:33|| 2010-11-15 12:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Deacon - what about if they're in Boston or San Francisco? Would slashing tires THERE be OK? Or would you have to sugar their gas tank? Epoxy their door locks? Sand in their crankcase?

Posted by Glenmore 2010-11-15 13:10|| 2010-11-15 13:10|| Front Page Top

#11 If you want to do a pro job on a vehicle, the CIA used a trick of removing spark plugs, then pouring a half cup of gunpowder into the cylinder, and replacing the plug. The damage to the engine is special.

My favorite is a pint of linseed oil in the gas tank, which requires every millimeter of every engine part to be hand scrubber with a toothbrush and solvent to remove the tar.

But a true champion that causes no damage at all, except to the sanity of the driver, is to put an unrolled condom in the gas tank. It slowly swims to the gas intake, clogging it, and the engine just stops. But that frees the condom from the intake, so it floats away, and the engine starts right up again.

Totally unpredictable, and utterly maddening. Few mechanics will figure it out until thousands of dollars have been spent.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-11-15 13:19|| 2010-11-15 13:19|| Front Page Top

#12 moose, that's nobel prize territory.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-11-15 13:38|| 2010-11-15 13:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Back in the WWII days, these people having slashed tires for protesting a soldier's funeral would have been the best they could have hoped for. At least the van and its occupants didn't dissappear after leaving the city limits.

Posted by Unolusing the Full Bosomed4806 2010-11-15 14:05|| 2010-11-15 14:05|| Front Page Top

#14 Glenmore, I wasn't advocating slashing their tires or any other kind of vandalism. By the way, Myth Busters busted the bit about sugar in a gas tank.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-11-15 15:08|| 2010-11-15 15:08|| Front Page Top

#15 I was hoping to find video of the van limping away from the protest. My heart goes out to the family. They has got to be a way to stop this nonsense. If you can't should fire in a crowded theater, you shouldn't be allowed to start a riot at a military funeral.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-11-15 15:08|| 2010-11-15 15:08|| Front Page Top

#16 I love happy stories.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-11-15 15:09|| 2010-11-15 15:09|| Front Page Top

#17 I found one pic.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-11-15 15:10|| 2010-11-15 15:10|| Front Page Top

#18 I expect that the Westboro people would have already bugged their vehicle with audio & video recording of events in its vicinity. Perhaps they will be able to identify & sue the perps for some kind of tort. Setting up a vehicle to do this is trivially easy.
What would be illegal / litigable about a crowd simply surrounding and boxing in the Westboro vehicle so that it not only could not move, but also that the doors could not even be opened? Just keep the evildoers sitting inside until they foul themselves. Those protesting the protestors could work in shifts to keep the Westboro crowd confined, perhaps for days.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-15 15:27|| 2010-11-15 15:27|| Front Page Top

#19 Chris - I think that is a bit extreme. It'll make martyrs out of them and not make a good example. People will start to feel sympathy for them...

Besides, what do you think horsewhips were invented for? (that and Tar and Feathers)

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-11-15 15:54|| 2010-11-15 15:54|| Front Page Top

#20 well crazyfool lets send them ovber too pakistain or saudi arabia and see if their tires just get slashed there.Or Iran or Somalia they like too throw rocks alot.

Your first comment about "slahing throats" was deleted.

That's one strike, chris.

Posted by chris 2010-11-15 16:25|| 2010-11-15 16:25|| Front Page Top

#21 I think a couple of slashed tires is a pretty mild and reasonable response to these loons' provocations. They just won't take "no" for an answer.

Posted by mojo 2010-11-15 16:32|| 2010-11-15 16:32|| Front Page Top

#22 Here's one of the posts on that blog:

Thats a fine start, but dont forget sugar in the gas tank, motor oil in the wiper fluid container, potato in the tailpipe, rattlesnake under the drivers seat, dead fish under the passenger seat

Posted by gorb 2010-11-15 16:40|| 2010-11-15 16:40|| Front Page Top

#23 I really like AH9418's suggestion - no one actually touches their vehicle. There is no damage to the vehicle. No one touches the Westboro pukes. Yet, they can't get out, they can't move without running someone down. They can't open the doors. If they call the police, the police should be very busy guarding the funeral, and it would take them several hours or longer to get there. And, when they do, how can they force the people surrounding the van to move? Those people aren't doing anything to the pukes - they aren't even touching them. Beautiful.

This would work in cooperation with the motorcycle clubs, who could park their bikes right next to the van so the pukes couldn't get out - I like it.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-11-15 17:14|| 2010-11-15 17:14|| Front Page Top

#24 I'm sure the crime will be thoroughly investigated (*snicker*), but these kinds of cases are hard to crack. No fingerprints, no witnesses, no informants, crime lab is on vacation this month, and so on.

Posted by Mike 2010-11-15 17:20|| 2010-11-15 17:20|| Front Page Top

#25 Deacon Blues: 'Nother CIA trick is to save the table sugar for wet concrete. Just throw a 10# sack into the mixer, and the concrete will set normally, but it will be water soluble.

As concrete sets, it forms long chains of molecules that make it durable. Sugar upsets this process, forming much smaller chains.

Modern technology is ridiculously dependent on concrete.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-11-15 18:57|| 2010-11-15 18:57|| Front Page Top

#26 Anarchist cookbook is what some old radicals would use (but be careful, a lot of the stuff they have in there is either ver dangerous or doesn't work, and no real warning as to which)

Posted by OldSpook 2010-11-15 20:01|| 2010-11-15 20:01|| Front Page Top

#27 How about putting oilfield pipe dope under the door handles. From the average person's perspective it looks like a practical joke, which it is, and it could take weeks before the compound is fully cleaned.

Cops get a good laugh and so do citizens.

Pipe dope FTW.

Posted by badanov 2010-11-15 20:30|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-11-15 20:30|| Front Page Top

#28 Or lithium grease.

Posted by badanov 2010-11-15 20:33|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-11-15 20:33|| Front Page Top

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