MotherOf8
Registered: 02/11/08
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I recently found your bumper sticker on my Suburban and was not amused at your narrow mindedness. I appreciate your concern for your cause and understand that it is an important issue but I am a mother of eight and there is no way I can transport my family in anything smaller than a large SUV. There are many people in similar circumstances who need a big vehicle and that is why they buy them. People with large families, contractors who and tradesmen, people who for whatever reason have to move lots of stuff.
You do your cause a disservice when you violate other peoples property. You don't change their mind, you only make them mad which doesn't help them change their mind, which I assume is what you want them to do. You should try getting your message across in a different way if you really want to do anything positive.
Sincerely,
Mother of Eight |
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ThomasPainInTheAss
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Registered: 02/11/08
Posts: 9
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Wow. Eight kids. I thought that only happened in third world countries.
So we get to look forward to 8 kids growing up, buying a SUV because they have 8 kids (assuming they follow your example of thoughtlessness). When their 8 kids have 8 kids 30 years later we have 64 SUV's and if your great-grand-kids follow your example 30 years after that there are 512 SUV's.
You should be proud of the legacy you are leaving the world. Of course at that rate humanity will be erased from the planet having consumed every living thing and polluted the planet to the point that only cockroaches and algae are left. Hopefully they will evolve into a higher more intelligent form of life than humans. |
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DoubleTag
Registered: 02/13/08
Posts: 2
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The woman with 8 kids reminds me of one of the reasons they took off "You Bet Your Life" which was a popular TV game show hosted by Grouch Marx broadcast in the 50's. A woman contestant told Groucho she had 7 or 8 kids. When Groucho asked her why she had so many kids she replied "Because I love my husband" to which Groucho said "Well I love my cigar but I take it out of my mouth every once and awhile".
I'll think about Groucho when I tag my next Yukon. I got three today as well as a H2 Hummer. |
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DoubleTag
Registered: 02/13/08
Posts: 2
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BTW, I saw a brand new Range Rover (dealer advert. where the license plate goes) and used my preferred tag for this situation..."I Should Know Better, Ask Me Why I Don't Care"...and waited to see the proud owners reaction when he walked back to his shiny new bloatmobile. He removed the bumper sticker, crumpled it up and threw it on the ground. Damn, a litterbug on top of being an irresponsible consumer (maybe he has 12 kids).
Offended at his lack of common decency on two counts I followed him to see if I could nail him a second time and lo and behold he pulled into a gas station on the corner. I pulled into the pump next to him and while he was busy feeding his V-8 powered beast I tagged him again. He didn't notice it and drove off probably still cursing the impertinence of the person who had just defiled his brand new status symbol.
I decided not to follow him home and tag him a third time after he sees and I assume removes the second bumper sticker from his chrome phallus substitute. I will rely on my imagination to visualize him looking over his shoulder every time he parks his eco-death cruiser. Any other stalkers out there? |
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HelloFolly
Registered: 02/13/08
Posts: 2
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I like the double tag stalking technique but I have a tour d' force that I challenge anyone to beat.
At first I was always nervous when I tagged, but then realized that unless the owner was walking toward his bloated beast as I was tagging it, you could actually be blatant about tagging. Hell no one really notices it. They probably think you are putting a bumper sticker on your own vehicle.
So my boldest tagging was at a stop light. Put my jalopy in park, got out and strolled to the SUV in front of me and tagged it, got in the car, and had about 10 seconds to admire my handiwork before the light turned green.
Any other notable tagging techniques? |
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abc
Registered: 03/02/08
Posts: 7
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Well, DoubleTag, in the case of the litterbug. Due to you providing the trash that would make you the litterbug, the owner was just moving the litter out of his or her way. What is the gas mileage on your vehicle, do you waste gas/diesel to drive to these tagging areas or do you walk or bike. Funny the narrow-mindedness: causing pollution to go out and seek other vehicles to litter on. Question: if you have two small cars that get 32mpg (that is on the higher gas mileage side for new American cars in the city) when carrying 2 passengers each but an SUV that is carrying 4 passengers and gets only 18mpg, which one is the most efficient...wait for it...have you guessed...ding..ding.ding it's the SUV because the two cars traveling the same distance will burn two more gallons total than the SUV to travel 18 miles. Yep if you can only fit 1 to two people in a compact car (on the video that was shown on tv only two people were in that station wagon) then you have to fuel up both vehicles to carry the same amount of passengers and you have to divide the gas mileage by half which makes the economy cars effectively use 16mpg as the accumulative gas mileage when transporting the same people. Hold on, lets look at it this way, two cars carrying 5 people each, 8 children and 2 adults. getting about 30mpg or less (due to weight in the vehicle) or a big SUV getting about 15. Hey, what do you know…they effectively get the same gas mileage. Oh, you know those hybrid SUVs getting 35mpg, they would just kill your cause. If you work out how much gas it takes to transport each person in your vehicle that is something much more accurate. |
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