Anti-Bush bumper sticker on my car didn’t last 3 days.

[kwolf68]

I had a sticker that said “Another ‘Traitor’ says Anybody BUT Bush in 2004” and 3 days after I put it on there someone had scratched it off.

I have decided to order 20 bumper stickers and just keep replacing them. Whatever the case, this goes to the mindset of Conservanazis unable to hear an opinion counter their own and will do anything (even if it means trespassing) to quell dissent.

I have never once thought about touching another’s car no matter how messed up I thought their bumper sticker was.

Any bumper sticker horror stories? (For the record, I don’t really like bumper stickers but because I was seeing so many pro-Bush stickers EVEN IN DC I wanted to bring some levity to the traffic.

[rexcat]

1. You don't need to buy that many stickers

I use the magnetic vent covers for the backing of my bumper stickers and then I can take it off the car when not driving. The bumper stickers last a lot longer and the car dosen't get keyed. I rotate my stickers depending on the mood I'm in.

[ComerPerro]

3. Protects the car too

But I don't think I could see myself taking off bumper stickers as I leave the car, as though they were a CD player face or something. Its terrible that someone would feel compelled to do that. But it is a damn good idea if you want to display a bumper sticker, because they are hard to take off.

[kwolf68]

4. Hey thats an idea

I will look into that. I was in Fairfax and there was this car with "Stop American Fascism" and all kinds of anti-Bush stuff on it. I KNOW that pisses the conservis off.

[mdmc]

5. MY brother in law spit on my car

because I had a 2000 Hillary sticker on it.
When we got to my car I remarked that someone had spit on it.
He laughed and said, "It was me! I didn't know it was your car!"
He isn't too bad for a GOP.

[truthseeker1]

16. Where do you get them?

Do you remember where you got the magnetic backing? I've been wanting to do that for some time, because I have a really hard time putting a bumper sticker (permanently) on my car (and besides, I know my husband wouldn't let me - - we share a car)

[stevedeshazer]

30. craft stores

They have this magnetic stuff you can buy with peel and stick on one side, just cut it to fit with scissors.

[truthseeker1]

35. Thanks!!

[hobbes159]

38. Try your local crafts store

A.C.Moore sells sheets and rolls of the stuff....

[rexcat]

45. You can try Home Depot or Lowes

but I got mine on line, I think it was Home Improvements, sorry, I don't have a link.

You can get 2-3 stickers on one vent cover.

[texastoast]

2. The Whiners Don't Understand the Concept of Free Speech

I ride a park and ride bus every day from a very conservative neighborhood mostly populated by employees of multinational corporations (lots of oil companies).

I had a "Treehugging Dirt Worshipper" bumpersticker on my car. It lasted about two months at the park and ride.

[liberalhistorian]

26. Oh, they understand free speech, all right,

it's just that only THEY have the right to express themselves! Remember all of the disgusting anti-Clinton stickers on cars? Well, they think THEY have the right to express disapproval and disagreement with the President, but if THEY agree with the President, then anyone who doesn't share that view is un-American, a godless commie, etc.

[elfwitch]

28. Amen to that!!

Nailed that one right on the head.

[Catherine Vincent]

55. Let me guess.

You ride either the Woodlands or the Kingwood P&R?

[patdem]

6. Maybe you need a sticker beside the offending sticker

that says "Anyone who removes this ->
sticker is a COMMUNIST"

:bounce: and good luck!

[kwolf68]

8. Yea

That may be an idea. Have a 2nd sticker that mentions the first something like..."Whoever defaces or removes this bumper sticker hates America's freedoms."

LMAO...Stop em with their own jingoism.

[Art_from_Ark]

52. Or how about

"If you remove this sticker, then the terrorists have won!"

[LoZoccolo]

7. I would almost like to pull some Michael Moore stuff...

...and hide somewhere with a camera waiting for someone to do something and then go confront them about it.

But I don't have a car! :silly:

[karlschneider]

9. I just have one, a Darwin fish. Hasn't been vandalized but I do get an

occasional middle-finger salute here in eastern OK...
:eyes:

[kwolf68]

12. I got flipped the bird by a guy

In a Corvette (assuming it was the bumper sticker). His car was a convertable and we pulled up to a light and I yelled out to him, "I didn't ask for you IQ buddy" and just laughed. Dude was pissed that I exercised some of those ole' freedoms "they hate us for."

[elfwitch]

10. Not just stickers...

I have a on my car. Some jerk tried to pull it off.

Too damn many Southern Baptists in Texas!!

[calimary]

13. Oh dear God, I love that one!

You know what - if they give you shit for that it proves one thing - they have no sense of humor. They oughta be reminded that God created humor, too.

on edit -

By the way, where do you find car accessories like that? This lifelong Catholic would like one.

[ronnykmarshall]

15. I want one too!

But here in LA it's not uncommon. Most of the people in my building are Jewish. Around the holidays we're one of the few draggin' in one of them thar trees.

[elfwitch]

20. Humor

As far as I can tell the God they follow has no sense of humor.

I bought my fish at my local Judaica supply store.
you can buy one online at
http://sites.eoi.com/folder15245/index.cfm?=browse&pageid=27

Got a really cool doormat at my local shop too

which, BTW, got stolen off of my front porch.

People have no class!!

[hobbes159]

40. Try www.northernsun.com

[DemExpat]

27. Please....what does that fish image represent?

:shrug:

DemEx

[elfwitch]

29. Fish speak

It is a gefilte fish.
Gefilte fish is a Jewish dish.
There are alien and Darwin fish.
Mine is a Jewish fish.

[DemExpat]

31. What do you mean...there are alien and Darwin fish....

sorry, but I'm not in the States....is this a series of bumper stickers, or what?

Thanks!
DemEx

[elfwitch]

32. no problem

they are plastic stick on plaques






They make fun of all the varying Christian fish plaques.

[DemExpat]

33. THANKS,

:D

cute!

Demex

edit: they don't have Christian fish plaques over here....
:-)

[WoodrowFan]

58. have both

I have both a Darwin fish and a Christ fish on my car. Someone tried to pull off the Darwin fish and part of the tail comes off. Now I just say "it's evolving."

[GainesT1958]

11. I'll never forget how my "Jim Hunt for Senate" stickers in 1984...

Kept mysteriously dissappearing after my car spent some time in various parking lots! :eyes:

Those people simply CANNOT stand to see any opposition expressed to their brainwashed-induced indoctrinations. It's kind of that "Moral Majority Mentality", I guess. :shrug:

Keep puttin' 'em on there--stand up for what's right; to heck with what any of them have been taught to think!

:kick:

B-)

[nannygoat]

25. Interesting GainesT1958, I used to have a Harvey Gantt

bumpersticker on my car and drove all around eastern NC (I worked with migrant and seasonal farmworkers). I was always so pleasantly surprised that noone smashed in my windows or ripped the bumpersticker off my car.

For those who don't know who Harvey Gantt is, he is the former mayor of Charlotte who ran against the evil Jesse Helms for the US Senate in 1990. If Gantt had won, he would have become the first African American elected to the US Senate in NC since Reconstruction.

I also heard Harvey Gantt endorsed John Edwards for president today.

[pfitz59]

56. Wasn't it "Mike Hunt for Senate"?

not Jim?

[elfwitch]

14. The least they could do...

The least the other guys could do is leave ours alone.
You don't see me going around and ripping Pro-Life stickers off people's cars. And those stickers can get pretty horrid sometimes.

[Cat Atomic]

17. I caught a guy doing this shit.

This was on the lead-up to the Iraq invasion.

I was stopped at a red light in heavy traffic. To my left was a car with several bumper stickers on it. One said "Gulf War Veteran", and another said, "NO WAR IN IRAQ".

Behind that car, and directly to my left, was a car with two young guys in it. They looked about 22-25 or so.

While we we all waiting for the light to change, one guy jumped out of the passenger seat and- I'm not making this up- ran, crouching, to the rear of the other car and marked out the "NO" with a magic marker.

I was very angry, and I shouted at the guy, asking if he and his friend were on their way down to the recruiter. The guy was surprised, as he'd been waring this stupid "I'm so mischeivous" sort ort of grin up to that point, as if he just assumed everybody agreed with him. He just ran back, got in the car, and drove off with the green light.

Really pissed me off- I hate that shit.

[arwalden]

18. My "Chrome" Darwin Fish Was TWICE Stolen Off My Car...

... HEY FUNDAMENTALISTS!!! What happened to your "shalt-not-steal" thingy?

== Allen

[elfwitch]

22. Love your queer duck!!

Thought I'd give you big props for that one.
Queer duck is cool!

[arwalden]

42. The Duck And I Thank You....

He's Intellectual!

[janekat]

47. Surprised FREEPERS could figure out it's significance...

Considering that the great majority of them have the IQ of a snail..

[cjbuchanan]

you could always have real fun

and place those stickers on someone else's car. Look for the pro-bush SUV and place one next to the "Support our troops, support our president" sticker. It will take them a few days to realize it. Think of the fun then.

Legal disclaimer, I am not advising you to actually do this. That would be very wrong.

[jedicord]

19. Funny Thing...

There's a neighbor who has a "Support President Bush and Our Troops" sign on his front yard. Every time I drive by I want to spray paint a peach sign over it.

Last weekend, I had an altercation with a lady who drove through a stop sign and almost hit some kids. I hollered, she went home to grab her husband and confront me, this guy with the sign came over and stood with me on the deal.

Guess Americans aren't going THAT far into a handbag.

Sheesh, and I just bought that can of spray paint, too!

[calimary]

21. We have this odd phenomenon around West L.A.

There's this street artist named Robbie Conal who does political caricatures, poster-size, so they can be posted on traffic signal control boxes and blank walls and fences and stuff. The latest one, round, in pink with "OOPS" on top and bush's face in the middle and along the bottom are smaller faces of Perle, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Powell, and Rummy.

They started appearing all over town during the summer. Some of them are still up, still intact. Quite a few have since been ripped and torn and otherwise defaced. In some cases, some wingnut has gone around and covered them over with flag decals and the inscription "America Love Her or Leave Her."

I even saw one large square placard that had a series of little American flags down the left margin (!) and then, alongside each one a line: Bomb Democrats. Bomb Clinton. Bomb Hillary. Bomb Liberals. Real cute. On THAT one, I watched this little tug-o-war over about a week's time. One day the Robbie Conal poster was there intact. The next morning, somebody'd come along with that lovely, fellowship-inducing poster. The next morning, somebody had torn THAT one off and the Robbie Conal poster was again intact. The next morning, the wingnut had struck again and the darling poster-de-peace was back up. The following morning someone had come along and, again, removed it, and the Conal poster was undefaced. The next morning, somebody'd up 'n' ripped the Conal poster off, period. Gotta hand it to the wingnuts - they always get the last word.

[Borgnine]

23. Last year...

...my truck (yes, I drive a truck, but it was affordable, okay?) got keyed, and I'm assuming it was because of my Re-Elect Gore in 2004 sticker.

The funny thing is, usually people see it, laugh, and give me a thumbs up. Those who would usually be upset probably don't even understand what it means.

[TLM]

24. You need a video camera...

Maybe a lipstic cam mounted in the car?

Or something in a car or house near where the car is parked.


I had been seriously thinking about doing a real project like this across the country, get lots of liberals to put anti-bush stickers on their cars (or rental cars) and video tape the cars to see who vandalizes them.

Sound like something Moore might be interested in.

[kwolf68]

34. Yea

It wouldn't be hard. There is really only two places it could have happened. When I went to Pet Smart (big shopping center with a Walmart in it) and as it was park ON the side of the road in front of my in-laws this past weekend. This neighborhood is the epitome of a suburban hell and I would bet its 99% right wing...BUT BUT BUT...I thought they hated us for our freedoms.

I really am starting to despise these people.

[dave29]

48. We could set up patrols

and call those we catch wingnut anti-free-speech terrorists

[Carmerian]

53. What an EXCELLENT idea!

I definitely agree with you, TLM, this sounds like a project.

[JHB]

60. Running further with that idea...

If Moore or someone did that, they could not only film them, but rig the car to respond: at first it sounds like some car alarms ("Protected by Raptor! Step away from the vehicle!"), but then gets increasingly smart-assed...

...Or, it starts playing the Soviet anthem, and a TV crew comes out of hiding in a nearby van. An old man with a thick Russian accent and dressed as a party official (dark civillian suit with lots of medals and ribbons on the chest) and gives the vandal the "Glorious Comrade Citizen's Award for Protection of the Motherland against Unauthorized Political Views"...


The list goes on...

[Starpass]

36. Just thinking the other day how I see so little anti-Bush or pro-Dem

stickers even in liberal areas. I truly feel people are afraid of having their cars vandalized or even of personal attacks. All the other Bush loving, war shit is displayed with no fear whatsoever. That really is an awful thought. I know here in Maine in 2000, there was an investigation by the Portland Press Herald and where all the Dem candidate signs were going. Found out that the repukes were paying $1 per sign for anyone who would remove them. I think that they shoul have had criminal charges placed against them for encouraging vadalism, trespassing on private properties, violating free speech, etc. I hope this time there is something made of this kind of activity.

[Logansquare]

39. My bro' put cold roofing tar on the back

of my mother's Gore in 2000 lawn sign, because some tighty-righty had stolen her two previous signs. End of theft spree. My brother is a Green, but hatred of Bush has brought us all closer...

[sham]

37. I've been pleasantly surprised with my sticker.

I've got this one on my car:

It's been there for about a month now and I haven't had a single incident. Granted, it's a pretty "safe" sticker, but I've heard all kinds of bumper sticker horror stories here on DU, and I do live in Texas. :)

[kwolf68]

41. Yea

If you can't have that sticker then something is terribly amiss.

I choose to be a little more ... ahh ... you know. I must confess I liked the "Stop American Fascism" with the reference to bush sticker I saw, but Im afraid if I put that on my car I'd come back to a chassis and 4 wheels.

[0rganism]

44. That sticker gets you protection under the Endangered Species Act

Messing with Texas Democrats these days is an ecological offense!

[janekat]

43. I'd love to put some MORONIC sticker on my car - pretending I'm a Pub

Start Up the Draft - So We Can fight the WHOLE Middle East

Then, have a "Bush" sticker next to it.

That would REALLY freak them out.

[Patriot_Spear]

46. Brick through the rear window...

Bumper sticker scratched off and a brick through the rear window where I had another sticker. If this is the worst these cowards have to offer all I can say is...

'Bring 'em on!'

[veganwitch]

49. i had my vegan stickers taken off...

i had one and my favourite "a hamburger stops a beating heart" great for fundie areas, and "why do you love animals called pets but eat animals called dinner?"


but it was my dad. when he took back my car, he felt guilty riding around in a "vegan" car when he ate meat.

[Kolesar]

57. "a hamburger stops a beating heart"

I love it!

[kath]

67. ""a hamburger stops a beating heart""

heh--
reminds me of one of the best bumper stickers I've ever seen:

"fundamentalism stops a working mind"

[Blue_Chill]

50. Find out who scratched it off

and put it on their car. }(

[BlueJazz]

51. Being in the Electronics field, I've dreamed

about pulling a Bumper sticker on my Truck (steel bumper)
and fixing it so if anybody puts their hand on it they
will get hit with about 50,000 volts...not long enough to really hurt them.
It sounds nice but I realize it's just a dream.

Mr.Bush Baud Man! He Vedy, Vedy Baud Man!!

[Tesha]

54. 3 cars - multiple stickers

We haven't had any defaced yet - and this is NH! one note tho' - I get the finger quite often - either young men in trucks or middle-ages men in expensive cars - always!

"Bush Cheated" is my personal favorite

[Az]

59. Thats nothing

To date I have had 3 sets (5 at a time) of stickers stolen off my car. One time came back to find all the stickers gone from my trunk and replaced on the side of my car (magnetic backings). I have been keyed twice. I have had a WWJD bracelet rapped around my antena. I have been followed into a parking lot and evangelized. And finally I had 10 bibles dumped on my car on one occaision.

I have atheistic stickers on my car but I tend to avoid the hostile ones. I have considered placing a secondary sticker on the backs of my sticker that says "Thou shall not steal".

I have a friend that was forced off the road just for having a Darwin fish on their car. Sometimes ya just gotta wonder.

[otohara]

61. I Wore My Anybody But Bush Sweatshirt

to the store the other day....luckly I was in dem territory and had one of the employees say "she liked my sweeatshirt". I dare anyone to approach me w/ intent of abuse or violence.

I am armed with my cane and I will use it!

[Terwilliger]

62. DC, eh?

Probably just some insecure partisan hacks

[VolcanoJen]

63. I put a "Read my lips: No New Texans!" sticker on my car...

... during the 2000 election, just after washing it at the local Wash-n-Go.

Some yahoo yelled to me "Go back to Russia, you communist!" to which I yelled back, "Hate free speech? Sounds like you'd be more comfortable there."

I mean, really... "Go back to Russia"???

[zonmoy]

70. what you should have said to him

was go back to germany you nazi.

[watercolors]

64. Have four stickers on our car

Impeach bush, bush lies and thousands died, bush and cheney got rich I didn't and an american flag. We are in a fepuke area and I figured the car would get keyed or messed with, so far not a thing! We've got a lot of honks and thumbs up signals, its been a month now, I'm amazed! We don't see as many more flags flying on cars either. We are in central Fl, on east coast.

[bearfan454]

65. I have mine taped to the inside of the back window.

That pisses them off even more because they can't get at it.

[JHB]

66. You just haven't run into...

...one of them who's willing to break it yet.

[zonmoy]

68. an Idea

Have a sticker on your car that says prove you are a nazi and remove a sticker from this car.

[Bossy Monkey]

69. Put one beside it that says "Free Speech: It's the American Way"

If you can't find one, PM me and I'll put one up at my CafePress store.

[Iverson]

71. it's perfectly logical

Those who despise civil society will have less remorse about vandalism than those who value civil society. Corporatists and their thrall despise civil society.