Today must be vigilante day at Jalopnik with fire sprees and identity theft already going on. Now, a vandal in the Santa Rose, Calif. area has a thing against people looking to get some good gas mileage as he or she has vandalized six Toyota Priuses (Priusi? Priuii?) in the same area. The reports say that five of the occurrences involved a brick, rock or hammer thrown through the window with another occurrence involving a dented fender and all are likely related. You know, if the vandal really wanted to get back at the Prius owners, he or she should just fill up the vehicles tank with gasoline. Yeah! That'll show those no-good environment lovers. [Press Democrat] (Image)
Prius Owners Victim Of Treehugger-Hating Vandals
3:40 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Travis Hudson
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good, i am so sick of these cars; every hollywood or this week's new hip catch phrase types, ride of choice...less of them, i say send money to defend the actions of these brave souls
I won't lie after getting stuck behind one of these in the fast lane such actions have crossed my mind
How utterly pathetic is that?
"You chose a car that gets high gas mileage, I need to trash it." This is even dumber than the idiots who torch SUVs.
I thought my friend had the weirdest hippie-related car vandalism when someone dumped soy flour into the tank of his Subaru, but this is weirder.
Hope Larry David's on the lookout.
@Pixel: Dumber? Nah. It's a wash.
I think it is the act of H2 owners who are pissed as hell that all these tree hugging hippies are flipping off their rides (and posting pictures doing it on FUH2.com). Just a theory.....
Well at least it's thematic vandalism.
Somebody kicked the passenger door in on my Passat several years ago and didn't even have the common decency to scratch "Nazi mobile" or a swastika into the hood.
Damn, I hate randomness.
i got this here rope, and i got me a tree, but i can't for the life of me figure out what we should do with car vandals
@ash78: i'm going to scratch "entropy" into your hood
Wow, not even one sensible post before someone was excusing vandalism because they don't like Prius drivers.
Stupid is as stupid does.
@NICKNICK: If you were really good, you'd just put random scratches in it and he'd figure out that it's entropy. On second thought, maybe physicists don't make good criminals.
@OldeEnglishD:
I hate the H2 as a pedestrian. If you want a huge, insane car, get an M5 Touring in purple-green chameleon paint. At least you can see over and around the M5, and even more importantly, the driver can see you.
Besides, the H2 is just a rather poor SUV with an extra ton of useless weight added. It's a horrible offroader.
Are they sure this was a Vandal??? That looks like half the cars that have to street park in L.A.
@ash78: Or "nice parking job, asshole"
Box me in again and I'll gut you like a fish.
Part of what's wrong with America is the progressive disregard for freedom of choice. Yes, I do bash those who drive gas guzzlers when they don't have the need for one. Social responsibility aside, if they want $100+ fill ups every week, that's their right. Same goes with hybrid owners. Our society has developed this mentality of strong-arming others into agreeing what we believe in (sound familiar, Bush administration?).
Voice your opinions all you want, but remember people's rights are still protected and a crime is still a crime.
Priorities, people. First, for the common good, the red light cameras. After that there'll be plenty of time to act on our petty personal prejudices.
I believe for every Hummer hater, there is an equal and opposite reacion in a Prius hater.
Its equilibrium, folks.
As much as I hate the Prius it is extremeley low to vandalize a vehicle. There is a special spot in hell for those that do, even if the vehicle and its driver are douchebags.
I have a hard time mustering anything resembling hatred towards the Prius - I'd rather drive one than a Camry.
Besides, any fuel-efficient hatchback that even North Americans can appreciate can't be all bad.
@Spasticteapot: Totally agree with your points, just saying that maybe H2 owners are starting to snap and take it out on their tormenters.
Sorry for all the shenanigans I got a little tipsy and drove, er slammed, into a guardrail I didn't want to tell my partner about the accident with my maroon Prius, so I grabbed my hammer and a couple bricks and made it look like a crazed hybrid-hater was on the loose.
Don't fuck with other people's cars, regardless of what backwards reason you think justifies it.
@oldskoolparts:
Yes, because every single one of the 500,000+ (according to Wikipedia) Prius buyers is an annoying movie star. I'd never buy one, but c'mon--these are *mass* market appliances. Projecting your environmental persecution complex onto one just makes you look like an idiot.
Isn't the prius ugly enough to start with?
Hopefully they'll catch the idiot soon.
It's shit like this that makes me want to only own cars that are cheap enough that I don't have to worry about it getting damaged.
All the Prius drivers around here appear to be septugenarians...the fixed-income posse...never the young/rich/smug people. The car probably makes a lot of sense to them, especially if they run it for 20 years and only put 60k miles on it.
So I could never hurt a Prius. It would be like kicking my grandfather in the yams.
@BMRFILE: werd homie
@BMRFILE: This is all true, except that the government HAS to regulate some things in the interest of the public. Should people have the freedom to dump arbitrary amounts of toxic chemicals into the water supply? I'm not trying to compare poisoning the well to driving an H2, because they're obviously not the same. But if at some point it's determined that excessive fuel consumpsion and/or emissions is significantly detrimental to the interests of the American public, the government has to regulate it.
@NICKNICK: Hahahaha. Came up with that a while ago. It's my next license plate. Or maybe just "2ND LAW"
Nobody would get it, but I like it.
Vandalized? They weren't just "makin' it look mean"?
Attn: Hummer Haters - Karma is a bitch.
It takes all types to make a world, what beef would the Prius owners have without the abomidable Hummer H2? The cars in this sense compliment each other and have a lot in common, neither is particularly attractive, both are polarizing rides from opposite sides of the "green" spectrum and people who buy them have generally have an alterior motive, mainly image to do so. In a different world free of crude oil and it's vices these people could have been friends ...... but we don't so let the mayhem ensue!
The reports say that five of the occurrences involved a brick, rock or hammer thrown through the window
Bingo.
@beercheck: My thoughts exactly.
@oldskoolparts: So you won't mind if I vandalize your car, right? I am just so sick of the cars that people who mispell "school" drive.
I'll agree that the Prius is a nifty little car. However, why is the Hummer the only poster child of excess? The Sequoia and half of Toyota's SUVs are just as bad if not worse when it comes to mileage and emissions but nobody says a peep. That being said, car vandalism is of the lowest form and if I ever catch someone doing this crap to my car I'll send them to the sixth circle of hell.
@OldeEnglishD: Anyone who posts a picture to that site is moron...
FUPicPoster...
I really enjoyed this gem...
Submission by: Hummer Hunter
Location: San Francisco
Date: March 11, 2008
Parked right in front of my apartment, the nerve of that super dork!! Such a waste of space. Goes well with some other dorks garbage on the street.
I contemplated the Prius recently. The Prius would be a very practical item for me if I purchased four of them, strung them together and used them to pull my Suburban around like a horse-drawn carriage.
Then the Prius(es) would be as practical as any car I've ever owned.
What the hell?
Some guy makes a lifestyle choice that predicates a particular car purchase, and this a-hole is torqued about it? What is his beef, exactly?
Environmental activism? Japanese cars? Holier-than-thou attitudes? Dammit, we need more than just a bunch of punched Prii! Wreck something different so we can triangulate on your motivation!
@Ω βгåғғ™ ۞: I wonder if they have special Hummer H8tr masked robes that they dress up in when they get together?
FU FUH2
Retribution at last. I have heard of Hummers being vandalized and "for the environment" scratched into the paint. Payback's a bitch.
They should mate Priuses to a H2 and make a hybrid. Then they'll kill each other off. Thank god for natural selection!
@petersterncan: amen
@danio3834: COTD
I love the ebb and flow of these comments. Seriously. Little su'um for everybody.
@danio3834: They probably burn a giant "H" made of logs in front of H2 dealerships.
I suspect the deer. It looks like half-assed ungulate work to me.
eh. the h2 sucks. but, the bigger gas hog is the original. they're oh so fun though. don't tell the gov't, but many marines, and probably soldiers can tell you after taking "secret" side trips up mountains, through mud pits, and probably shallow rivers between the field and base. brings back memories of stopping right before base to y