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Tire Extinguishers can fuck right off

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tireextinguishers · 29/02/2024 11:09

Woke up to deflated tires because I drive an SUV.

Jealous, petty wankers.

Anyone got got this morning?

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Itscatsallthewaydown · 29/02/2024 11:11

Are you sure it was them? Might be the neighbours

tireextinguishers · 29/02/2024 11:12

Itscatsallthewaydown · 29/02/2024 11:11

Are you sure it was them? Might be the neighbours

They left a note. And 7/8 other cars on my street.

Why would you think it would be the neighbours

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PeacockHat · 29/02/2024 11:16

We had that. They did loads of cars in our street, and the neighbouring streets. Thick bastards deflated two of my neighbours tyres on her car which isn't an SUV, but managed to leave the massive Range Rover alone.

There's also the Jaguar Land Rover factory nearby but they didn't protest there.

tireextinguishers · 29/02/2024 11:18

PeacockHat · 29/02/2024 11:16

We had that. They did loads of cars in our street, and the neighbouring streets. Thick bastards deflated two of my neighbours tyres on her car which isn't an SUV, but managed to leave the massive Range Rover alone.

There's also the Jaguar Land Rover factory nearby but they didn't protest there.

Idiots.

They got a couple of hybrids on our street too.

Their Twitter page says they hate Range Rovers 🤣

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skgnome · 29/02/2024 11:23

We had that a couple of years ago
they deflated some hybrids, and the only thing they managed was to get a lot of AA vans to go around the city re-inflating tyres!!
but the worst was a couple of streets away where they deflated a disabled person’s
which has been clearly adapted, parked in a disabled bay and with a blue permit
they are idiots!

tireextinguishers · 29/02/2024 11:25

I'd never heard of them before today.

How long have they been making nuisances of themselves?

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SpringOfContentment · 29/02/2024 11:26

There are people going round deliberately letting down tires?? Have I understood that correctly?
Have they got nothing better to do?

tireextinguishers · 29/02/2024 11:31

SpringOfContentment · 29/02/2024 11:26

There are people going round deliberately letting down tires?? Have I understood that correctly?
Have they got nothing better to do?

Yep. They certainly don't have jobs

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tireextinguishers · 29/02/2024 11:32

This is the note

Tire Extinguishers can fuck right off
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ClaudiaWankleman · 29/02/2024 11:34

tireextinguishers · 29/02/2024 11:32

This is the note

I mean, they're not wrong. I empathise with you - it's a huge amount of time and stress for you and you are the victim of a crime. But driving an SUV in an urban area is almost certainly unnecessary and does have all those negative effects.

TheDandyLion · 29/02/2024 11:35

Anyone in the area got a Ring camera? I mean they've admitted they've done it so if you had something to give to the police maybe they can do something wishfull thinking

araiwa · 29/02/2024 11:39

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SoupDragon · 29/02/2024 11:46

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What do you suggest she uses, magic?

araiwa · 29/02/2024 11:48

SoupDragon · 29/02/2024 11:46

What do you suggest she uses, magic?

A tyre pump

Itscatsallthewaydown · 29/02/2024 11:48

It’s a pretty basic thing to have a tyre inflator in the car.

tireextinguishers · 29/02/2024 11:51

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We used a neighbours compressor for the wank tank actually.

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AmeliaSmallhope · 29/02/2024 11:51

SoupDragon · 29/02/2024 11:46

What do you suggest she uses, magic?

Wouldn’t a normal tyre pump work?
Assuming you had one in your car boot?

tireextinguishers · 29/02/2024 11:51

SUVs are unfairly demonised in my opinion.

I don't know why people have such an issue with them.

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araiwa · 29/02/2024 11:53

tireextinguishers · 29/02/2024 11:51

SUVs are unfairly demonised in my opinion.

I don't know why people have such an issue with them.

Didn't you read the letter they attached?

Guarantee none of it stems from jealousy

tireextinguishers · 29/02/2024 11:55

Yes I read the letter.

Everything said could apply to almost everything else in modern society.

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crackofdoom · 29/02/2024 12:00

Don't you? It looks like the note that they left spelt it out quite well.

But, to reiterate: all recent gains in lowering vehicular CO2 emissions due to the introduction of EV cars have been wipedout by the growing popularity of these wankpanzers.

The sheer weight of them is damaging road infrastructure.

They Don't fit down a lot of roads built hundreds of years ago, and massively add to congestion even when they're driven properly

They don't fit in parking spaces even when the drivers are capable of parking properly

They're massively dangerous to other drivers, and pedestrians. The massive bonnets are at about the height of a primary aged child's head, so they cause way more pedestrian fatalities in collisions. They're not even safer for the occupants, due to an increased tendency to roll.

CagneyAndLazy · 29/02/2024 12:05

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A lot of the time they are slashing or even drilling holes in the tyres, not just letting them down with the valve.

I would turn to violence if I caught one of these lentil-weaving, yoghurt knitting wankers damaging my car.

Ifailed · 29/02/2024 12:08

Tyre, Tyre, Tyre. Write it out 100 times.

HJ40 · 29/02/2024 12:10

I assumed it was a typo for fire extinguisher 😂.

That's really out of order. I'd be so angry. Assume the police have been notified?

tireextinguishers · 29/02/2024 12:13

Electric cars are far more heavy.

I live in a very, very old city, my car fits.

Parking spaces are fine, they fit vans and pick-ups after all.

'Wankpanzers' - oooh edgy

No one has convinced me that targeting a mother that's getting ready to take her children to school is fair.

Good job we didn't need the car overnight for an emergency too.

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