Bumpersticker Vandalism

[texastoast]

I went to a meeting of some local democrats. One of attendees had her car keyed at a grocery store parking lot in The (right-wingnut) Woodlands here in Texas. Apparently, her Kerry bumpersticker inspired the following spew written on a note and stuck on her car:

"Why don't you move your ass to Canada, you socialist piece of shit."

Okay. Here's the good part. The 22-year-old woman wrote the note on the back of one of her own credit card receipts.

Sweet.

:7 :7

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. Report it to the police and the car insurance company

looks like she'll be paying for a paint job AND have to explain herself to the police!

[Fridays Child]

2. They don't call 'em knuckledraggers for nothin'!

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Charge the repairs to her card

[sui generis]

4. karma will get that freeper with a little help from the dem

It may or may not be who that cc slip belongs to so she should check that out thoroughly first.

And then . . . let the insurance company prosecute it. Aren't crimes of religious, political and social persecution called hate crimes? Hmmmmmm. . .

somebody could end up having a really really bad day.

[texastoast]

5. That's what the police said

There is no "proof" that the cc slip belonged to the young woman, but the cc slip was in very good shape (not wadded, run over, etc.), so it is very likely that the cc slip belonged to the writer and came right out of her purse.

The car's owner needs to get a sample of writer's handwriting and have it analyzed with the note.

I just can't stop laughing at how stupid that was.

[MissMarple]

21. She has her signature on the cc slip.

Just a thought. :evilgrin:

[krkaufman]

45. Fingerprints and signature on the credit card receipt...

... to track/identify the suspect; and then get a warrant to check her key ring for any keys with a trace of the paint from the victim's car.

The *police* should be handling the investigation.

[krkaufman]

47. Fingerprints and signature on the credit card receipt...

... to track/identify the suspect; and then get a warrant to check her key ring for any keys with a trace of the paint from the victim's car.

The *police* should be handling the investigation.

[krkaufman]

46. Fingerprints and signature on the credit card receipt...

... to track/identify the suspect; and then get a warrant to check her key ring for any keys with a trace of the paint from the victim's car.

The *police* should be handling the investigation.

[sphinx77449]

10. Eeeeeeeewwwwww !!!

You're good !!!

A hate crime .... let's see .. crminal prosecution followed by a civil action ....

Oh yeah ...

[newyawker99]

33. Hi sphinx77449!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Gruenemann]

6. wonder what her hair color was

[RebelOne]

17. Not all of us blondes are dumb, at least not that dumb.

[MissMarple]

22. Ditto.

[DiverDave]

7. When you think you've heard

it all, some little twit tops it!!

God, that is funny.
Hope she goes to jail for a hate crime... wait it's Texas.
Never mind, she'll get a medal.

[texastoast]

8. I'm certainly going to give her one when I meet her

Wait no, that's a Darwin award.

[sphinx77449]

9. Yes sir pardner ....

Bein a Kerry supporter here in the Houston area DOES incite the little nazis ...

I live in Katy and work at Eldrege and I-10 ....

Have a "No W" and a "Republicans for Kerry" sticker and got my truck keyed across the tailgate bigtime ...

I KNEW that "Repubs for Kerry" sticker would piss em off !!! I LOVE it !!!

[Catherine Vincent]

16. Welcome to DU, Sphinz!

From a fellow Houstonian!:hi:

[wettap]

11. So far, the only thing the note writer is guilty of is

bad taste. A vulgar person indeed.

Did the person who wrote the note admit to keying the car?

Just wondering.

[texastoast]

13. Maybe it's just my logic

Before shopping at grocery store--no keying of car.
Return to car--note on car and keying.

What do YOU think? If you were on a jury, what would YOU decide?

I love it that wingnuts like this "little lady" cherish freedom of speech as long as you agree with them and love to repress and punish those who express a different opinion. They love our Bill of Rights and respect it so much. NOT!

[wettap]

18. I'm not saying it didn't happen, or even...

... that it was unlikely.

However, is it CERTAIN that the writer of the note keyed the car? Is it CERTAIN that the credit card receipt belonged to the note writer? Is it CERTAIN that the keying took place in that parking lot? That is what I would want to know if I were on a jury.

I have not keyed a car before, but I have written notes and left them under the wiper blades to people who have irritated me. (usually parking or driving infractions) I have not used personal stationary, but usually whatever is available. Hence a handy receipt blowing through a parking lot. Or hotel stationary. (I confess... I take hotel note pads. I'm a thief)

And to answer your question, I am of the opinion that it appears that the person leaving the note might be the guilty party. The question is whether the receipt belonged to the perp.

[texastoast]

20. Reasonable doubt

The receipt had not been run over, crumpled, or stained. What do you think a forensics expert would think? Certainty is not the standard of proof. What would make you have "reasonable doubt" that the receipt belonged to the perp? And before you answer this last question, may I refer you to post #2.

:)

[wettap]

24. I agree with you...

... but you would have to either get a confession from this woman, or take it to criminal court, if law enforcement thought there was enough evidence. There you would have to convince a jury (all of them) that his woman indeed keyed the car. You could reasonably convince them that the note is hers, and is in her handwriting. Proving that she keyed the car is another issue.

I don't want to seem arguementative. I have just seen the justice system work in this country once too often.

Now, in civil court, all you need is a majority to believe you. (a perponderence of evidence)

Good luck with the Repug creep. :)

[thebigidea]

32. Though it wouldn't be nearly as difficult to prove as, say...

... the idiocy of school vouchers.

[wettap]

40. OK. Prove it.

Start a thread, and prove to this African American woman why my children shouldn't have the same eduational opportunities as Chelsea Clinton did.

[texastoast]

43. Delete-dupe

[texastoast]

44. No, I would like for you to

start that thread and discuss your issues regarding the benefit of school vouchers. I would very much like to hear plan of how vouchers will help students afford $12,500 a year for tuition when the average state spends less than half of that per student per year. Should the state fund the difference, and if so where will the money come from? This should provide an initial talking point for your thread.

[Ms. Clio]

28. So nice of you to give a vandal the benefit of the doubt

Nothing in this life is CERTAIN. That's why even in death penalty cases, the standard of proof is not "beyond any shadow of a doubt."

And the standard of proof in a civil case is preponderance of the evidence. Just 51-49%.

If I'm on that jury, the preponderance of the evidence is that the person who wrote the note keyed the car.

[Ms. Clio]

26. It's called circumstantial evidence

Or do you really believe that the person who keyed the car is not the person who wrote the note?

[Tsiyu]

12. She was probably dumpster diving

to fish out receipts so she could do the Republican thing- steal from someone. But politics takes precedence over your everyday Repuke irresponsibility and criminal behavior. So instead of stealing that person's identity, she did the more "noble" thing of defacing your car with it.

Brilliant!

[Catherine Vincent]

14. How stupid of her to use her receipt.

[Kathleen04]

15. Not smart

I'm not home now (dorming), but I found out that someone stole all my bumper stickers. Didn't hurt the truck, just peeled off all the stickers.

Why can't people just leave other people's property alone and let them express their opinion?

[mr_du04]

19. *chuckle*

use the CC number and go on an internet shopping spree. ;-)
Ok not really but it would serve her right.

[MissMarple]

23. Or make a copy of the slip and send it to her.

Just for a little heads up, perhaps with a copy of the U.S. Constitution or Bill of Rights, the anti-American little twit.

[Piperay]

25. Being that stupid should be a crime

against society, she deserves jail time for being stupid regardless of anything else like 'keying' the car. :silly:

Guess this ignoramous never heard "Alice's Restuarant".

[SmileyBoy]

27. What's wrong with Canada???

It's like this dipshit thinks Canada is a communist enemy of ours or something.

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[texastoast]

30. Not that I heard

However, I did take guilty pleasure on vacation this summer when I saw a bunch of Bush bumperstickers posted in accessible places other than cars that had LIAR scrawled across them with Magic Marker. Many different towns along the East Coast.

:toast:

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[mjones]

34. Just goes to show..

Just shows you how evil and stupid the republicants are.

[ducque]

35. mine get stolen...

I've been printing bright yellow "Worst President Ever" bumperstickers -- with a big red "W".

I print them on magnetic stock -- I don't want to actually glue anything to my Jeep.

So far, three of them have been ripped off. And that's a GOOD THING.

If they hated them -- GOOD!

If they liked them -- GOOD!

[texastoast]

36. aWol Big YELLA W!

Put that one on there. Just the facts!

[sldavis]

37. is there a security camera?

A lot of the grocery stores around my home town have security cameras on the lot. You might be able to see for sure who did it.

[texastoast]

38. Apparently, yes

In the text of her letter to the editor of our local newspaper, the victim says that "I intend to hold you legally and financially responsible for scratching my car." I see no other sure way than to have a tape from the security camera.

[texastoast]

39. UPDATE

A letter to the editor from the victim was published in our local newspaper. Here is an editorial on the subject.


http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1574&dept_id=532537&newsid=12934931&PAG=461&rfi=9

[ronnykmarshall]

42. Great article

I hope the police are getting involved with the vandalism.

[WLKjr]

41. TOASTED TYPICAL FREEPER MENTALITY

This is how bush supporters think and act. IGNORANT. I would take that credit card reciept and report it.