This is really close to home, and one of the reasons why the bumper stickers are on the older cars and the magnet is on the new car… you can take the magnet off when traveling into questionably Red parts of Texas.
Update: Apparently the vandalism isn’t limited to the Democratic side as Robbie at UrbanGrounds reports that his truck was keyed. Regardless of your politics, there’s no reason to trash someone else’s car or truck. And as Robbie suggests, it’s probably a good idea to take all the stickers or magnets off the car after the election, (paraphrasing) unlike the folks I see driving around Austin with their W04 bumper stickers still attached.
These photos are of vandalism done to the car of a friend of mine (also a friend of this blog) last night in Hays County, Texas. The only photo-shopping I have done was to obscure her license plate number.
On the eve of early voting, an Obama supporter’s car was vandalized in rurual western Hays County, Texas. The Obama bumper sticker was torn off, a 20-lb rock was put through the back window, two Obama yard signs were shoved through the hole in the rear window and “Obama” was badly spray-painted in orange along the drivers side door.
Posted on 10/21/2008
I’m about as partisan as it gets — I’m pretty much the poster boy for RightWingNutJob.
But the vandalism — from both sides — is disgusting, and to me unimaginable.
It never occurred to me that if I disagree with someone’s politics to go vandalize their property as a way to “voice” my opinion.
If I saw either an anti-Obama or Conservative-hating idiot vandalizing or otherwise defacing someone’s car, I’d stop them and call the police just as quick as I would if I saw someone vandalizing my own vehicle.
Karma is a b*tch. And I hope whoever is responsible for the most petty of sign thefts up to the more serious of vandalism is dealt with accordingly by Karma and or the police. Preferably both.