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Twice today I was behind SUVs, coming out of multi-storey car parks, where they had to stop and reverse as they travelled around every corner!

I was a bit highly strung today and couldn't help but roll down the window and shout, "DRIVE A F**KING PROPER CAR YOU C**T!".

Hahaha!

I don't have the guts (or maybe the impatience) to do that, but I never tire of overtaking them on my bike, going right to the front at lights and all the other perks!

Apparently if you see two hummers in a line it's ok to saturate them with RPG's.....

I just love these spoof parking tickets...

http://www.stopurban4x4s.org.uk/shop.htm

Joe wrote:I just love these spoof parking tickets...

http://www.stopurban4x4s.org.uk/shop.htm

Cool, I think we ought to get in touch with these guys about P.O.

fishertrop wrote:Apparently if you see two hummers in a line it's ok to saturate them with RPG's.....

My company gave up using a hummer in Baghdad very early on as it drew too much fire (from both sides ) - went for the UN spec Land Cruiser instead

fishertrop wrote:Apparently if you see two hummers in a line it's ok to saturate them with RPG's.....

What's an RPG? I always thought that stood for 'Role Playing Game'

Rocket Propelled Grenade

Ah, that makes sense!

How about a helicopter gunship? A few hellfire missiles ought to do the trick...

I think it's sometimes a bit too simplistic to get caught up in just concentrating on 4x4's - sure their fuel efficiency is appalling but even average cars are not that great, especially when a lot of people spend half their time sitting in queues or accelerating like getting to the shops 0.5 seconds earlier is going to make any difference. If you drive a car - which I do incidently (just not a lot!)! - we all have a part to play and that is simply to use it less if at all possible - cycle, walk it gives you an appreciation of how damn aggressive and polluting cars are and even keeps you fit (at least until you die from exhaust fume induced lung cancer). At least you have a choice about this at the moment. If you do drive a lot then there's a plenty you can do to cut down your fuel consumption such as driving in a more controlled less 'foot down' manner, banging the clutch down when you go down hill (it's amazing how little speed if any you'll lose and gravity is pretty cheap still!). Also you need to change your mental attitude to cars! I would start by not believing anything Jeremy Clarkson says - the car industry use nutters like him to make people believe in the myths of driving, manliness etc, all complete tosh but the indoctrination is almost universal.

jev wrote:Also you need to change your mental attitude to cars! I would start by not believing anything Jeremy Clarkson says - the car industry use nutters like him to make people believe in the myths of driving, manliness etc, all complete tosh but the indoctrination is almost universal.

Guerrilla media is a useful approach. Subversion. I like the parking tickets.
How about...

PARIS ? If the French marauders known as The Deflated waged their brand of urban subversion in Southern California, the mecca of the sport utility vehicle, by now they would probably have been jailed, beaten, shot or at least sued.

But five weeks after the clandestine crew of environmentalists launched a low-intensity war on SUVs in Paris, there are no casualties to report. Except, of course, for dozens of deflated gas-guzzling vehicles, said Sous-Adjudant Marrant (Sub-Warrant Officer Joker), the mysterious, masked leader of Les D?gonfl?s.

Under cover of night, Marrant's troops target Jeep Cherokees, Porsche Cayennes and other four-wheel-drive vehicles parked on the tree-lined avenues and cobblestoned lanes of wealthy neighborhoods. The eco-guerrillas deflate tires without damaging them, smear doors with mud and paste handbills on windshields proclaiming that the vehicles are dangerous, polluting behemoths that do not belong in the city.

LA Times

Since the autumn it?s got too wet for me to cycle along the towpath, so I take the road to work now. Since cycling every day (or so) on the road I?ve discovered just how aggressive and impolite people become once they get into a car.

I?m sure that most of these people are nice, friendly, polite human who queue nicely and don?t push.

However, as soon as they enter the armour plated comfort of the car it?s as if they are just playing some kind of a video game, where the real world beyond the windscreen is just an image. The world outside the car becomes much less real and therefore they don?t queue and they do push, and they would generally prefer to crush you against a wall rather than lose valuable seconds on the way to get home for Ant and Dec.

Any of you other cyclists noticed this; it?s kind of weird. I have the kids in one of those trailers, and I?m sure that outside their cars no one really want?s to kill them, but once inside they can get bl0ody close.

It would also seem that the bigger the car, the more separated you are from reality, the more aggressively people drive.

Ps. I do drive myself when I feel like it.

I have to admit I would never take the risk of carrying my children in a little trailer behind my bike. I think you should consider taking the car when the children are with you whilst on the public roads..... I don't mean to be impolite, but just realistic.

With regard to the use of RPGs on terracidal mobile oil-disposal units, otherwise known as SUVs,
there are those who find them not only very expensive but also rather noisy.

So, in the interests of avoiding gratuitous noise pollution, I'd suggest running a cost-benefit analysis on a more traditional approach -

- namely that of a large potato, placed against the exhaust pipe, and then located using the delivery system commonly known as a wooden mallet.

Of course, if this approach is applied with the target waiting at traffic lights, the supplier had better be ready and able to leg it . . .

Bill