<![CDATA[Jalopnik: Vandalism]]> http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: Vandalism]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/vandalism http://jalopnik.com/tag/vandalism <![CDATA[Why three guys vandalized seven Toyotas at an auto show]]> On Wednesday night, Chicago police arrested three men after they were caught vandalizing seven Toyotas at the Chicago Auto Show. While it sounds like dumb kids gone wild, the alleged vandals claimed they were angry about American jobs shipped overseas. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5764284&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Security Video Of The Violent Chicken McNugget Rampage Incident]]> Melodi Dushane, 25, pulled up to a Toledo-area McDonald's at 6:30 a.m. on New Year's Day demanding McNuggets. Told of McDonald's breakfast-lunch barrier, Dushane tried to order a side of McWhoopAss instead. Here's the just-released crazy video. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5609035&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Giants Fans Trash Porsche 911 After Playoff Defeat]]> After losing to the Philadelphia Eagles 23 to 11 in the playoffs six months ago, these Giants fans took out their rage on a poor little Porsche 911. That isn't the whole story though. NSFW More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5273963&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Paris Hilton Eggs $1.4 Million Bugatti Veyron?]]> The latest trend for young, female role models? Throwing eggs. Paris Hilton joined Lindsay Lohan on the egging bandwagon after several cars, including a $1.4 million Bugatti Veyron, were vandalized during a house party. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5252486&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Four Foreign Cars Vandalized In Michigan: Video Update]]> We reported Monday on four foreign-made vehicles vandalized in a suburban Detroit shopping center and now you can see the perp in action for yourselves from the shopping center security cam. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5112947&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Teenagers Vandalize 70% Of Audi Dealership's Inventory]]> An Audi dealership in California has been hit by a massive case of vandalism, with 98 of their new and used inventory being heavily damaged by a group of key-wielding teenagers. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5111383&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Four Foreign Cars Vandalized In Michigan]]> Owners of four foreign-made cars parked in a suburban Detroit shopping center found their tires slashed and the words "Buy USA" scrawled on the windows. Merry Carpocalypse. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5110067&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Rock Throwing Punks Smash BMWs In China, Get Let Off Easy]]> A couple of Chinese boys, ages 8 and 15, decided that chucking rocks at a passing truck loaded with imported BMWs seemed like a fun thing to do. We know, people say BMW might as well stand for Break My Windows, but this seems to be taking things a bit too far. Unfortunatley, when the parents of the kids were faced with the costs of repairs, they only coughed up about $729. Hopefully the transporters have some good insurance, since the damage is estimated to cost about $44,000. [gog via Paul Tan] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=400270&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Dumb British Hooligans Burning Traffic Cams in England]]> MAD — no, not the drunk driving group, but the Motorists Against Detection — is a group in England that is actively burning and destroying traffic cameras and making sure everyone knows about it. The group claims to be responsible for 1,000 destroyed cameras in the past 7 years. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338154&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Is It Ever Justified to Mess With Someone's Car?]]> Of course, the short answer is an unequivocal no. But in life, circumstances are seldom as cut and dried as the law-enforcement community would lead us to believe. Thus comes today's question from commenter Altralosix: More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=274286&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cutlass Attack!]]> Gideon Hosein of Halls Trace, Hard Bargain, Trinidad and Tobago is facing bail of TT$150,000 (about 24,000 USD) after attacking seven cars with a freaking cutlass in some kind of sword-wielding Southern Carribean rampage that caused TT$100,000 in damage to the vehicles. Didn't somebody tell the hapless sod that International Talk Like a Pirate Day isn't until September 19th? – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=273875&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Randy Crow Attacks UK Cars]]> We had a pal in college who liked to wear a black trenchcoat, a Gecko T-shirt and a ring on a lanyard around his neck with a silver ring hanging from it. After a year or so of knowing him, we actually looked at said ring and noticed it had "The Crow" engraved in it. Needless to say, he wasn't exactly beating the ladies off with a stick, except for that one exceedingly odd girl who spoke Klingon. Regardless, he is a smart, sharp dude who now occasionally appears on television. And he dresses better these days. In the UK, however, one particular crow hasn't smartened up. He's horny and territorrial, and when he sees his reflection in the roof of an automobile, he has a tendency to attack it as if it were a romantic rival. Either that, or he's just a really, really big fan of Black Flag's Damaged album and doesn't have a mirror handy. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=273399&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jersey Man Horks GPS Units, Now He's Found]]> A friend of ours who owns a pretty serious exotic IM'd us last night asking advice on shitboxes. She wants a high-mileage econobox as a runabout. We suggested the Fit (as we're loath to recommend the Prius to anyone we like — nobody wants asshole friends, after all), but she was bummed by the lack of satnav. We suggested getting the Fit and going aftermarket. After all, none of our serious rallying pals rely on beforemarket nav systems, and Alex Roy has been known to use three or four at once. Apparently, Jorge Bonillapatino of Lawrence, NJ, is of the same mind as Herr Roy. He'd allegedly jacked nav units out of a number of cars in Plainsboro, Garden State. Then the cops caught up to him. Good luck navigating your way out of this one, Jorge. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=269994&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[More French Cars Up in Smoke]]> Jean-Beavis and Butt-Head-Luc have once again unleashed their antisocial arsonite tendency across Gallic lands last night, as over 200 cars enjoyed the flambé treatment at the hand of a disgruntled citizenry following the nation's latest election. It's the fourth night in a row of such high-temperature shenanigans in protest of the ascent of right-wing Nicolas Sarkozy to presidential office. On the bright side, it's a reduction of nearly a third of burned-out vehicles from the previous evening, which may suggest that the French are running out of cars. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=259847&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[San Francisco Smash 'n' Grabs]]> Where're Mike Stone and Steve Keller when you need them? While we undoubtedly have left our heart in San Francisco — something that becomes increasingly clear after every passing year we're not in the Bay Area — one thing we don't miss about Baghdad by the Bay is the absolutely nutso propensity of crooks to break into one's car. We've lived in less-than-savory parts of town before, and the only time we've had our car broken into was in SF. Five times in ten years. And three of those were within the space of eight months. But we don't come alone. We are fire, we are stone, and there are at least 15,776 vehicles in SF that feel the same way. And how many people does the SFPD have on the auto detail? Five. Yes. Five. San Francisco, we love you, but really, fuck you. You DPT us to death and then do nothing when our cars get vandalized. We wish we had a more polite response, but well, we just don't. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=249086&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Fonctionnement! Fonctionnement! Sauvage dans les Rues! 400 Cars Torched in France]]> Yawn. Another new year, another 400 cars set ablaze in the former land of the Frankish kings. However, the LA Times reports that the mayhem quotient was down from last year, when surly youths attacked trains. And while we doubt any '64 Valiants were involved, we wouldn't be surprised if numerous handfuls of valium and copious quantities of beer were. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=225476&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Your Camera A-Splode! Gatso'd Briton's Thermite Revenge On Video]]> A month ago, we brought you the tale of the sorry fate of Craig Moore, a young engineer busted for blowing up a speed camera with Thermite after being flashed. Thisislondon has video of both Moore's work van going by and then the sudden explosion of the camera. The reason Moore's plot didn't work? The camera's data is stored in the base. So here's a note to all of you would-be camera-vandalizers: to kill a weed, you've gotta get the roots. Moore just got four months in the pokey for failing to realize that one. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=199276&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Anti-Cellular Vigilante Attacking British Motorcars]]> We think we like the word "motorcars" so much simply because of Angus Young of AC/DC's "Brown SG" rant, where he proclaimed that modern guitars look like "motorcars" and that he wants to open a shop that only sells brown Gibson SGs — and then goes on to paraphrase Henry Ford by saying, "You can get an SG in any color you like, as long as it's brown." Now that we're done with the tangent, we'll admit that part of the reason we're writing this post at all is the title of the source article: "Phone Vigilante Attacking Motor Cars." More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=194098&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Let That Be a Lesson: Bitch!]]> This sorry sight needs no explication. Except this one, from Matthew — our tipster.
Wow... She tagged the Caddy STS, but left the old Honda alone.
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=191564&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Paintball Pranksters Sentenced to Shooting Their Own Cars]]> Judge Michael Cicconetti (as the source article tells us, his surname is pronounced "chih-kuh-NEH'-tee") has decreed that in lieu of jail time, twenty-year-old Joshua Breeding and 19-year-old Christopher Lyons can shoot up their own vehicles with paintball guns and then clean them up. The pair were caught after splattering another man's vehicle. They'll also have to do forty hours' hard time painting Habitat for Humanity homes and issue an apology to their victim. Oh, the humility! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=188760&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Man Attacks Southern-California Toll Plaza With Pole-Like Device]]> Some people get a little defensive about their land being covered in toll roads, apparently. 18-year-old Cope Allan Schuyler is one of them, we presume. He grabbed a lane delineator and began smashing toll-booth windows on Orange County's 241 toll-road. And when that wasn't enough mayhem for him, he began taking on vehicle headlights until he was tackled by occupants of a Toyota 4Runner he assaulted. Apparently, Cope just couldn't cope with the tolls anymore. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=186360&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Vandals Strike Gay-Owned Vehicles in Iowa]]> We have to admit, when we first read that somebody had used shaving cream to stick pictures of naked men on gay-owned cars in Des Moines, we thought it was slightly funny in a ridiculously childish way. Then we read that the cars were all owned by women. And then we read that racial epithets and phalluses were etched into the cars' paint. At first we imagined a gay merry prankster delivering some post SF Pride Parade merriment to Iowan homosexuals. Now we're just mad. [Thanks to Al for the tip.] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=183413&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Million Pounds in Jags Vandalized]]> Oi! We're not sure what's worse, that 60 vintage Jaguars were destroyed in South Wales recently, or that the average value of each one was only around $29,000. Nonetheless, a group of teens broke into a warehouse there and played something called "dodgems," which we kind of get and kind of not (does that mean they had a Jag smash-up derby?). Here's to hoping at least a few were late-70s XJ6s. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=158654&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Suburban Miscreants Menace Orange County Tires]]> Anaheim po-po are reporting that at least 40 cars had their tires slashed yesterday in an outbreak of antisocial mayhem that cut a swath out of the Orange Curtain. Well, it didn't magically open a portal to Long Beach, but it did leave a number of OC residents without transpo for a day or so. So far, the hooligan(s) responsible for the activity have gone unapprehended. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=145805&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Let that Be a Lesson: Revenge]]> The main problem with being a "back-door man" (in the original, Delta blues connotation, natch), is the psycho husbands you may rub the wrong way. Decorum is doubly important when you drive a fine car like, say, this formerly mint BMW M3. Don't forget, husbands keep plenty of tools (and paint) in their workshops for — if no other reason — taking the occasional scalawag to task. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=135675&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Everyone Booze up and Riot! Roman Teens Take to Torching Cars]]> While we're liable to have a few too many and pull a pathetic, somewhat Cusackian move like calling our past girlfriends to find out why our most recent amour dumped us, Roman teenagers have taken a different tack, deciding that committing arson against motor vehicles in residential areas is a fine way to cap of a night of hitting the sauce. While many Romans initially thought the torchings terrorist-related, authorities are convinced that it is indeed yobbish youngsters out for a fiery thrill. When we were that age, it was enough just to sit around and let Beavis and Butt-Head burn things. Kids these days... More »
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