“Civilized” People Setting Priuses on Fire - Whose Fault is It After All?
I don’t know why people do that, but it seems like lately there are more and more vandalism acts on Priuses. For example, as Edmunds.com writes, a woman’s Prius has been hit several times with a hammer. Stone age-like acts, really…
I understand that Top Gear’s “demo” on assaulting a 2001 Prius with an automatic rifle was a little bit more out of sense, but they had probably bought the car prior to destroying it…
Another Prius has been set on fire by vandals, while the owner was watching it burning in front of his house.
There are several anti-Prius movements, and even web sites of those, who seem to hate Prius drivers for not being like them. Is it some kind of revenge against the environmentalist movement? Is a man owning a Prius guilty of wearing an image of something so annoying? Are we, environmentalists, so annoying, after all?
If it wasn’t for the Prius, it would have been other hybrid car hitting the front lines, but I realize after all that it’s not the car’s fault, nor the drivers’. It’s natural for this to happen, like it did to the first Christians in the first centuries.
It’s just that nowadays we don’t have much time and money to turn to ash and then resurrect from it. We’d better try not to buy and use so much stuff and gasoline. That way people could help themselves, and their pockets, if they don’t care so much about the environment after all.
Why doesn’t this sort of things happen to Hummers, for instance?
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Sep 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Probably moslems
Sep 7th, 2008 at 4:48 am
If you really don’t understand the reason behind these acts of vandalism, then allow me to opine.
Most individuals that drive Prius are SNOBS and Elitests (SP??). The holier than thou attitude is really annoying.
Do not get me wrong, these are criminal acts and should be dealt with as such, but please Save the Humans (we really don’t have to worry about the planet the planet will take of itself) by example and don’t look down your nose when you do it.
Sep 7th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Ok, I admit I don’t have a Prius myself, but I don’t see how Prius drivers are in any way more “nosed-up” than Mercedes S-class drivers, or some other type of luxurious rolling palace on streets. Anyway, it may be the fact that they are content with their car, have the (wrong) attitude of superiority because “look, my engine doesn’t run at stops, etc”, and often belong to the middle class, aspiring to the nose and infatuation of the higher ones. Rich people, on the other hand, aren’t so fond of a $25,000 purchase, it’s like their ordinary car, because they have their Bugatti or Ferrari waiting in their garage, so Prius is a freebie near those. So after all I think this attitude is not new at all and it’s mostly a problem of an infatuate person, not an environmental infatuation. What do you think?
Sep 8th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
I know exactly what the cause is, it’s the result of the brainwashed Rush L-imbeciles out there. Conservative rightwing morons out there have been brainwashed by the oil industry through paid-off talk-radio hosts like Oxycontin Boy Rush Limbaugh.