Have you had anything bad happen to your car because of stickers?

[cags]

We live in a highly repuke area in Texas, and my hubby took his anti-bush stickers off his truck(Its newer and its his baby)because he's afraid someone is going to key it or something.

Now the car I drive is older and I could give a rats ass if people don't like it. I have 3 right now, and I'm just waiting on my DU sticker. Someone actually flagged me down once just to find out where I got my stickers.

Have you had anything happen to your car because of your bumper stickers?

[eleonora]

1. advice

get the magnet ones and take them off when you park. :)

[purduejake]

5. Your advice is better...

I know some DUers, including myself who are tempted to key cars with horrible stickers on them. I'm sure it works the same with the other side.

[purduejake]

2. Nothing you probably can't get buffed off...

But I am NOT an expert. I've just taken off some stickers before. Some are really tough, but I got them off with that orange action cleaner.

[Skink]

4. I sold the car with the Dean sticker.

Now I'm bumper sticker neutral which in Texas is probably safe.

[distantearlywarning]

3. No, but I've taken to cutting off W04 stickered cars in traffic.

*evil grin*

They might have their asshole in office the next 4 years, but I will still take my revenge in many small ways. Keep laughing, Repukes, but it'll be me driving 25 in the fast lane in front of your Bush/Cheney Hummer! MWAH HA ha ha ha ha ha!!!

[purduejake]

9. So I'm not the only one!

And I thought I was crazy, but maybe we both are! :)

[KaliTracy]

10. I've thought about making a sticker that says WHY? and putting it next

to * stickers....

[Starlight]

49. I had the same thought, except with the word "sucks" n/t

[njdemocrat106]

44. I'm beginning to think Bush/Cheney stickers are standard equipment on

Hummers. Seems like every time one passes me by, I see one of those obnoxious stickers or those little W'04 stickers plastered onto it.

[KaliTracy]

6. a friend of mine and his girlfriend both had "incidents" after

they put Kerry stickers on their cars prior to the election. Could have been coincidence. One got a tire slashed. The other a window was broken out. They live in a college town -- but conservative city (cincinnati).

[Pam-Moby]

7. We have 2 vans

both have Kerry stickers on them. I have not had anything bad done to our vans yet, but they are going to stay until 2008 election no matter what happens. I live in a town where people still leaves their Bush yard signs out. I do not touch theirs-so they had better not touch mine.

edit spelling

[ailsagirl]

13. They still have their yard signs out??? Yikes!!

That really doesn't make sense, since the repugs "won."

Oh well-- it's that cult mentality thing

[Pam-Moby]

28. Bush did not win MI...hahahah Kerry did! n/t

[izzybeans]

8. I've got mostly good comments but my brother got ran off the road and

had a rifle pulled on him in Indiana. I took my magnets off when I drove to visit him and the rest of my family b\c of it. He used to get snuff spit on his bumper at his old job as well.

[purduejake]

15. Indiana is a dangerous place.

I have been chased countless times and assaulted once. I actually hurt him more than he hurt me. Most guys don't expect a swift kick in the balls from another man who is 6'2 and 190. hehe. One person threatened to get a gun from his glove department, but I started chasing him with a can of mace, lol. I will die before having my right to free speech taken away, but that is a personal choice (and probably a stupid one).

[izzybeans]

27. I hate to say it but i think you are right

However there are a lot of good people there. I love many. I grew up in the southern part of the state. The Klanish wing of the repukagain party is pretty strong in the south. I've never had such a fear of white people in camoflauge hats in my life. My parents yardsigns were stolen as well. My father, near retirement, is desperately seeking a move back to michigan where he grew up (or anywhere else for that matter).

[purduejake]

32. Yes, many good people...

And most of them seem to be participating in the brain-drain of the state. The people complain that so many students from public universities leave after graduation, but it seems as if we're being kicked out!

[izzybeans]

35. I'm one of them, given I move to the east coast.

Not sure I took my brain with me though.

[Cats Against Frist]

40. Can I just say that this post really tripped me out

I went spinning off somewhere with the Chomsky avatar and the Hoosier liberal brother, the rifle, a factory and chaw.

It was very romantic, and very sad, for a minute.

[ailsagirl]

No, but I live in San Francisco

Though there are repugs here as well. I have bumper stickers but they're subtle-- like, "Think: It's Patriotic." I see lots of cars still with their Kerry/Edwards stickers-- and, inevitably, the repug stickers (but not TOO many).

But I hear you: I don't trust the opposition because they're not above doing something nasty should they get riled.

I've hear about people practically being run off the road (in the mid-west) for having Democratic stickers. Scary.

But I'd love a sticker that said, "Stolen...Again"

[Az]

11. Hehe, here is the list

I am an atheist. I have Darwin fish and other stickers on my car that make it known I am an atheist. I use magnetic backings so I can change them around and go stealth if I need to. Here is what I have had happen to my car due to my stickers.

Keyed 3 times
Countless pamphlets left on my window
Several notes telling me to believe or else
A WWJD bracelet wrapped around my wiper
3 complete sets of stickers ripped off my car (have considered placing a sticker on the reverse of them saying "Thou shall not steal"
1 set of sticker removed from the rear and placed on the driver side of car
Countless flipoffs (countered by many thumbs up)
Once had 10 bibles dumped on my car on a single occaission
Followed into parking lots twice and evangelized

I have friends that have had similar experiences. The worst was a friend who just had the Darwin fish on his car and was forced off the road by some guys in a pickup truck shouting that he was going to burn in hell.

[ailsagirl]

18. OMG, that's terrible!!

When you wrote, "Followed into parking lots twice and evangelized," did you mean that you were essentially "forced" into listening to their babel??

[Az]

23. Forced is perhaps the wrong word

I could have probably walked away quite easily. But my rules of engagement for debating religion and beliefs is that I do not engage unless invited or attacked. I consider envangelizing an invitation to the dance as it were. It rarely turns out how they expect.

[Davis_X_Machina]

12. Cantaloupe-sized rock through the back window...

... of my minivan parked in my driveway the evening of Thanksgiving. We were away at a relative's.

Same kids who stole my yard signs, and gay-, jew-, and red-bait my kids at school, most likely.

Whether they are the folks who leave the "F*ck You, Nigger-Jew" (I'm white) crank calls on the voicemail is an open question.

[MarianJack]

24. We're In Augusta...

...no incidents with K/E stickers still on both of our cars. Of course we still see stickers for moron & sneer.

A RW idiot of 19 that I used to work with made a comment last summer that any car with a Kerry sticker on it should be keyed, but he basically shut up when I asked him when he was going to enlist to fight in this war he is so enthused about.

[Davis_X_Machina]

29. Augusta is a Democratic stronghold. Good union town.

This burg has a 2.5-1 Rep registration edge, 7,000 people and five Talibornagain churches. (I don't have a problem with the Congos and Methodists, but some of the others, if they took over, would make Calvin's Geneva look like Las Vegas.)

[BiggJawn]

14. Yeah, it costs more to feed it...

Beause of all those "W '04" stickers on the back of the SUV's...

[Blue_In_AK]

16. No problem here

My bumper sticker says "How do you say Vietnam in Arabic." We picked up one last night that says "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention," but I haven't had a chance to stick it on yet. My "Card-Carrying Member of the ACLU" sticker is on the window of my office at home .... didn't want to push my luck with that one. LOL.

[Blue_In_AK]

17. Sorry, I hit the submit button twice. OOps n/t

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

20. Someone ripped my DU sticker off my back window the same

day I put it on there in conservative Stafford, VA (jealous, were they?!).

[Hissyspit]

19. Have "Worst. President. Ever." Sticker on Fort Bragg

No damage, but I have been tailgated pretty bad several times in an aggressive manner. On the other hand, they may just be pissed off about my driving...

[proud patriot]

21. kicked tailpipe , silly string

various dents and scratches ,,,

[cags]

22. Geez, I haven't even got a flip-off here in TX and on my car is

Four more Wars
It Takes a Village Idiot with a no W sign
and
One Person One Vote (does not apply in certain states)

I though my hubby was just being paranoid, apparently not.

But I'm still not taking them off.

[Sugarbleus]

25. Ok so far. DMV person asked where I got one of my stickers..woot

Took my grandson in for driver's license test and the instructor carried on about "where did I get" one of my particularly daring stickers. :) It says: BUSH, Bringing Fascism into the Twentieth Century!

On the other hand, I've seen a PLETHORA of magnetic yellow ribbon stickers: "Support the Troops". Some with red,white,blue etc..

We need a company who can produce all of OUR messages on magnetic stickers. I found two magnetics...only two messages..that was all.

[cags]

26. I want to print up some small flyers for those with the yellow ribbons

that say "What else have you done for the troops besides buy that magnet?" and put them on thier windshields.

[Radio_Lady]

33. I am putting a BLUE sticker near or over their sticker...

Theirs says: SUPPORT OUR TROOPS --

Mine says: BRING THEM HOME
IN ONE PEACE

A local woman thought this slogan up and put it on her family's fence. See article from the Portland Oregonian:


Wednesday, January 19, 2005

In lieu of vote, Aloha teen gets her views across by Jerry Boone

This week, Washington, D.C., will be awash with signs and banners supporting the president and his policies as George W. Bush takes office in a $40 million ceremony that some critics have called more coronation than inauguration.

But there is a very important sign President Bush will never see, because his motorcade won't get within 2,500 miles of Aloha. That is where Maureen McMahon and her friends have expressed their own thoughts for the second-term president.

It isn't a red, white and blue placard cranked out by the Republican Party and handed out to supporters like an oversized admission ticket.

It is in 4-foot-tall letters brush-painted on the wood fence that surrounds her parents' home.

"Support Our Troops. Bring Them Home In One Peace," it says.

It is a message as heartfelt as it is simple.

(Rest of article is at:)

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/jerry_boone/index.ssf?/base/metro_west_news/1106139925241490.xml

[liveoaktx]

41. Easy to make your own if you have a printer

Use something like this http://www.fridgedoor.com/magmak24x48.html

print out what you want to say on paper on a color printer (I like photo paper), then glue it on the magnet sheet. You don't have to wait for somebody else to make it.

[Sugarbleus]

47. Thanks, I've heard of this method. Problem is, I don't have any

magnetic sheeting. Can't seem to find they type needed in less than industrial size quantities... :(

[Lisabtrucking]

30. Before the election when I had all my Kerry stickers, and others about

The election, some guy tailgated me really bad then flew around me and tried to make me hit him by slamming on his breaks, and waving his hands like he wanted me to get out of the car and fight him. I'm a 41 year old woman who had a stem cell transplant 6 years ago, so I think my doctor would of got mad at me if I obliged him. Boy how I wish I was a dude for that moment.
Anyway, I have a new one now that reads: Now that you Conquered Iraq why don't you schmucks move there.
Today I just got the finger, and a few bad looks.

[ClassicDem]

31. Because I use my car for Business

I do not put any stickers on my car. My customers are from all walks of life and I find it best not to speak politics with them.

[Chovexani]

34. My mom

My mom has a Veterans for Kerry sticker on her van (she was an Army nurse). Whenever we drive down to Maryland to visit my cousins, we get dirty looks in mall parking lots but that's about it (my cousins live in Bushbot country).

[liveoaktx]

36. I live in TX and put signs inside my back truck window with scotch tape

If I think I'm going to park somewhere some nutjob might damage the truck, I take the sign down while I'm inside and then tape it back up when I return. Works great!

I printed that picture of Bush where he looks really mean and like he smelled something bad with some logo about Bush-had a man come up to me at the Granbury post office as I was getting back in the truck. I rolled down the window and wondered if he was gonna cuss me out-instead he thanked me!

I have a sign in the back passenger window right now that's based on a poli cartoon I saw-coffins in the shape of a W. On the other side, I'm almost finished with a sign that says "No WMD" with the Bush Lied-People Died sticker underneath-going to put "ANTI-WAR" under that.

Especially in Texas, seems like a whole lot of people not only didn't get rid of their W04 stickers but added them once they knew for sure * won. So it seems all the more important to put up the *better* point of view for them to see while I'm driving around.

[leanin_green]

37. I live in Utah, so. . .

Had my Kerry/Edwards sticker covered over with a "Stop Kerry" sticker. I was so pissed that I went around one night and defaced the signs of the Repug running for congress, John Swallow. Those signs mysteriously began to read as "John Swallow(s). I still drive around with my Kerry/President sticker on. BURN IT INTO YOUR MEMORIES YOU SWINE!!!

[barackmyworld]

38. hahaa!

Wow, that would offend them on so many levels. Good job!

[Liberty Belle]

39. Yes. Someone keyed my bumper--all around my Kerry sticker.

I kept it on 'til after the election, then got the bumper replaced.

My advice: Change your policy to zero deductible on comprehensive before you put those freeper-inflaming sticker on your car.

[RockStar]

42. Very Good! Im proud of all of you for believing in your freedoms.

[Kipepeo]

43. I've had people yell at me

flip me off, leave stupid notes on my windshield, run me off the road onto the sidewalk only to scream at me and, once, physically deface my vehicle...and I currently live in the bluest of the blue. :shrug:

Then again, I have a piece of shit vehicle and never fix the dents from accidents etc. so it doesn't really bother me....the thought of someone keying it I mean. If I had a new car I might be less inclined to hold my one-woman protest everywhere I go??

[jokerman93]

45. Got Keyed

Got keyed last Saturday in my own spot downstairs in the apt lot. I have no enemies that I know of, but I do have a DU bumper sticker. So who the hell knows? After witnessing the horror of the tsunami, I didn't give it much thought.

But the sticker stays!

:headbang:

[hippywife]

46. Nope...not bad....good!

I came out of a store a couple of weeks ago and there was a note on my windshield that said "Great Stickers!" with a smiley face. And this was in Tulsa!

I have two Kucinich stickers, one that says "Blessed Are The Peacemakers," another that says "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." one that says "Tolerance-Worth Reaching For" with multicolor hands reaching around in a circle toward each other, and my all time favorite:




On edit: I need to find room for my "Who Would Jesus Bomb?" sticker!

[LeftyMom]

48. No problems here

It's not as if I'm parking it at chickenhawk hangouts, though. If my car was going to be parked around fundie megachurches, gun stores, evilmart or other haunts of right-wing chickenshits, I'd probably adjust the sensitivity on my alarm.

I did have one asshole lean out the passenger window of a truck to yell at me.