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The culprits are also posting counterfeit parking tickets on the vehicles under the guise of "Tang Hall Council".
The four-wheel drives, beloved of farmers and suburban mothers on school runs, have recently come under attack from the media and others for their carbon "tyreprint".
One of the fake parking tickets issued reads: "The parking on private land of a vehicle of unreasonable size and level of pollutant emissions with the intent to cause provocation."
The police have made it clear that such actions are illegal and that if caught the culprits will be arrested.
YUSU President Anne-Marie Canning told The Yorker: "Although we can see the humorous side, this is a serious matter. We are not sure whether students are to blame but we at YUSU are asking people to be vigilant."
How is this in any way "humorous"?
The ticket they put is kind of funny. However, deflating car tyres isn't. I mean, honestly. I understand environmentalists doing this in a city like London. But to do it in York where a lot of the people do actually drive to the countryside...that's silly.
I am rather in awe of their tactics. It's imaginative, it's damaging and it's direct, something which I can appreciate while feeling that this action is probably more harmful than anything.
I think the main moral problem is that individuals and their families have to bear the brunt of a protest which should be directed (at least the harmful element of it) against the institutions that continue to aid and abet uneco lifestyles.
Dividing communities in this way is ultimately unhelpful, because although someone might have chosen to buy a massive gas-guzzling landrover when all they need it for is weekly school- and shopping-rounds, damaging their property in such a way will only antagonise them and the community to the other environmental movements.
Also, without a full knowledge and understanding of each individual target, and how they live, how could one justify this? I'm not at all convinced that one broadly delineated offence against ecological living should be enough to reduce a person and their family to a legitimate target for this kind of action.
This will reduce the ideals of the "wardens" to vigilanteism in the eyes of many, which is a pity since enviromental actions should no longer be the preserve of a so-called "radical" few, but of us all.
Yeah . . . what she said.
I think it was about high time that 'eco-warriors' stopped hiding behind so called 'moral values' of what can be seen purely as criminal damage.
Perhaps the state of this planet would improve if more of these 'eco-warriers' invested more of their time in coming up with new environmental technologies and transportation solutions rather than moaning at the rest of the population and committing criminal acts.
There is absolutely no humour and certainly justification for this criminal act. This situation begs the question, does this immature individual actually have aything better to do with their time?
I agree with the comment above. Further, when the day comes that there is an alternative choice instead of petrol and diesel that is cost effective then fair enough; these acts may just then pass as just act. But today, where consumers do not have such a choice, to assume that these people do not need their vehicles and bought them because they are just ‘evil carbon emitters’ is prejudice.
It is likely that people who own these vehicles either need them, or are rich enough to be able to afford them for no real reason. If the latter is the case, then I’m sure these people will be upgrading their cars as soon as they are available in new, more eco friendly models anyway.
In the end, I think the above comments are taking this article a little too seriously, I think this article is supposed to be a bit of a joke, but at the same time a warning that the joke is over - and a warning that a continuation of the tyre deflation will lead to prosecutions.
I've seen one of the parking tickets - fu**cking hilarious actually.
But not nearly so funny when you think that someone's actually slashed the tyres of someone's family car...
tyres were deflated not slashed - they're not that bad!
Why do environmentalists consider themselves to be above the law? Are they that superior that they are able to pick and choose which laws they follow? I'm sure if a different political movement chose to break the law in a 'humorous' way to try and achieve their objectives the chair of YUSU wouldn't be able to see the funny side of it.
I can't believe people are going to suddenly join the environmentalist movement or come round to their way of thinking because of this. It is pure intimidation.
I'm going to go outside and spray the remainder of my deodorant out into the atmosphere. how humorous am i?!
Nicolas Stone-Villani - You can't honestly condone anyone doing this anywhere can you?
Maybe eco-warriors act outside the law because from their point of view the law is failing to protect what is most precious in favour of what maintains a capitalist, neo-colonialist system which is tearing much of the world apart.
Maybe the rest of the inert masses should stop hiding behind their so-called "comfort zone" and start taking some responsibility for the way they live and the fact that when we're all floating on freezing waters wondering where the hell all the low-lying land went, and whether the whale carcass over there could be secured for food and blubber, it's going to be our own damn fault.
Maybe eco-warriers act outside the law because they think they're better than the law and that the law (and the elected representatives who voted that law in) are wrong and they're better people. But they're also too scared to deal with the consequences of their actions, which is why they cowardly act behind a veil of anonymity instead of publicly making a stand.
It amounts to vigilantism, and as has already been stated, slashing tyres is not going to convince someone to swap their Landrover for a Prius. There are legal routes to the same end - lobbying your MP and other forms of PEACEFUL protest.
Childish vandalism along with an amusing note? These jokers aren't seriously concerned about the environment, they're just looking for an excuse to harass people.
Eco-fascism! :p
Further to comment #6, I would like to point out that there IS alternative choice instead of petrol and diesel that is cost-effective. LPG (gas)tanks can be fitted into the back of such cars and are much better for the environment and cost-effetive too. These vandals are getting on their high horses and not appreciating that some owners of such cars are just as environmentally conscious as they are. The parking ticket does no damage but brings environmental issues to the car owners. The tyre-slashing is too far.
@15 LPG still isn't a viable alternative compared to petrol or diesel due to its sparse coverage at major filling stations. Even if you do decide to convert your car to LPG you would still have to cover around 15,000 to 20,000 miles just to break even.
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