Westboro Bus Tires Flattened In Okla.

[proud2BlibKansan]

McALESTER, Okla. -- Kansas church members who travel the region to protest at military funerals have been given less than a rousing welcome at McAlester, Okla.

The Tulsa World reports that a half-dozen protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., showed up Saturday in McAlester at the funeral of Army Sgt. Jason James McCluskey. After coping with what police said was more than a thousand counterprotesters, the church members found their minivan had flat tires on both the front and rear wheels on the passenger side.

Police said the tires had been slashed.

Officers said the church members were unable to find anyone to fix the flats in McAlester, and had to call a flatbed service truck to transport the van to a Walmart several miles away.

http://www.kmbc.com/news/25790172/detail.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I hate to say it...

GOOD.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. They're being pushed back everywhere lately

and that is very good.

[Dr. Strange]

2. God hates flats.

(But he loves irony.)

[de novo]

6. Well done.

:rofl:

[Exilednight]

12. Legen..... wait for it ............

dary!

[WillyT]

18. ROFLMAO !!!

:yourock:

:rofl:

:patriot:

:hi:

:kick: & R !!!

[fishwax]

29. lol

:rofl:

[de novo]

3. Awesome! I wouldn't have expected that from Oklahoma!

[jonnyblitz]

10. they were protesting a soldiers funeral that is why. if they were

protesting a gay funeral some of the Oklahomans would have probably joined the Phelps.

[jmowreader]

22. They seem to have quit protesting gay funerals

They know if they protest a gay funeral, they're going to find some sympathy for their action. They also know if they protest a soldier's funeral they're going to piss off someone and MAYBE one of the Phelpses will get attacked physically. This is the intent: to get one of their asses kicked, so the ass kicker can be sued into oblivion.

[Cid_B]

28. Get over yourself....

Christ...

[Raster]

32. "get over yourself"? please, explain your comment.

The phelps family does protest soldiers funerals in hope that someone will confront them and so they can sue. And yes, if they were protesting a gay funeral in Oklahoma, chances are they would be joined by some of the local knuckle-draggers.

[a la izquierda]

30. Phelps and co protested at Hillel at the University of Oklahoma...

and had many, many protesters. Once, they protested at a high school in a very conservative town, and the kids simply walked out of school so as not to give them an audience.

So, yes, there are knuckledraggers. But not the kids here, hopefully many of them will help change this place. Thanks for the broad brush and all that.

[CBGLuthier]

40. You know so much about us

Perhaps you would cite an example where oklahomans have acted like these fucking kansas parasites? If not, perhaps your opinion is not entirely valid?

[Hawkeye-X]

5. Karma's a bitch.

God said 'Enough' and smote the tires!

Hawkeye-X

[Terra Alta]

7. I guess God hates Westboro Baptist "Church".

Why else would he allow their tires to be slashed? :shrug:

[rexcat]

8. Another reason not to shop at Walmart n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. LOL!

I started to post that too but I don't see where it says WalMart actually fixed the tires. For all we know, the Phelps are still in OK with a couple flat tires.

[rexcat]

49. So you really think that Walmart would refuse business?

The dollar speaks louder than principle with Walmart. In fact Walmart executives have no principles. Everything there is about profit.

[proud2BlibKansan]

57. No I doubt they would refuse to fix the tires

But the story never says if they did or not. That was my point. sorry if I wasn't clear.

[rexcat]

59. I understand your point. I just wanted to make another nasty comment...

about Walmart. My intention was not to annoy you. I just can't stand Walmart!

[SidDithers]

9. K&R...nt

Sid

[jancantor]

11. I am reasonably confident

The police are not going to be enlisting McAlester CSI to solve this one.

[Lasher]

What, just on the passenger side?

Let's hear it for the true patriots in McAlester!

:applause:

[blaze]

13. Wow!

So far, not a single negative post at that site!!! I think that's unheard of!! :)

Now... to flatten a tire without destroying it... you simply need a schrader tool. :hi:

[Pavulon]

19. Or a toothpick..

couldn't happen to nicer people.

[drmeow]

31. A little pebble in the

valve cap does wonders!

[brewens]

14. If they called me I'd have said I was sending a guy right out.

It would be fun to see how long they would wait for the tire guy that was never coming. :evilgrin:

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. GOD HATES HATERS!

I think I can think the proper passage (that I can force this interpretation onto) in the New Testament.

And the Lord does work in strange ways...

[Danger Mouse]

16. Unfortunately, they love this kind of attention and publicity.

Attacking them is counter-productive. If everybody ignored them, they would eventually go away. They thrive on negative attention and money obtained through lawsuits.

[RaleighNCDUer]

34. If everybody ignored them, they would eventually go away.

Really? Has it happened yet?

What happens is, when everybody ignores them they up the ante - that's why they started protesting at soldiers' funerals to begin with. They DEMMAND attention.

I'm just hoping for the day they decide the only protest left is self-immolation.

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. Were they steel-belted radical tires?

[Edweird]

21. Bwahaha.

[flvegan]

23. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Shame it was just that little bit of damage. Put your backs into it kiddies, flip that baby over!

[Dyler Turden]

24. While not condoning property damage

It couldn't happen to a more deserving crowd and as said upthread, karma's a bitch.

[Swamp Rat]

25. Got Hates Tires

[uppityperson]

26. Golly, what a darn shame.

[Pushed To The Left]

27. They no-showed last night in Santa Ana, CA. They were supposed to protest the Laramie Profect.

Instead, over 200 counter-protesters showed up to show their support for the LGBT community. Turned out to be a very positive and enjoyable event!

[krispos42]

33. I would have removed the valves in the tire stems.

:evilgrin:

[donheld]

35. Oh boy. I hear a symphony

:nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity:

[Aristus]

36. Excellent!

Well done!

The Phelps monsters have First Amendment rights. But their tires don't! :P

They should go back to Kansas and stay there...

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. NO! We don't want them back.

LOL

[tavalon]

38. I think they might just have a special collection plate for new tires

because this has happened too many times for me to count. They aren't getting the message, are they?

[proud2BlibKansan]

39. It has happened before?

I didn't realize that.

[tavalon]

48. Many times

But the addendum that no one in town would fix their tires is a new one. Good on the town.

[Vogon_Glory]

41. Three Cheers for Somebody in Oklahoma!

Three Cheers for somebody in Oklahoma! It's high time that more unsung heroes and heroines start showing the haters of Westboro Baptist what the rest of the country really thinks of them!

The people who took action were probably red voters, but I applaud them anyway.

[HopeHoops]

42. God did it.

What a damn shame - and gee, I wonder why they couldn't find anyone to fix their hate-wagon.

[proud2BlibKansan]

44. LOL

God hates tires.

[leftyladyfrommo]

43. Ah!

Paybacks are hell.

[TheOther95Percent]

45. I don't approve of vandalism

I don't approve of vandalism. I would have done the neighborly thing and left a cup of sugar (or 20 lbs since I'm feeling especially generous today) with these poor individuals. Of course, since these folks were away from their vehicle and little old me doesn't have all day to be neigborly, I'd have to pour the sugar in their little old gas tanks. Bless their hearts. Poor clogged fuel pump.

[proud2BlibKansan]

46. Great idea

and very neighborly of ya!

[TheOther95Percent]

47. I'm actually quite surprised...

at the restraint people have shown. I would have thought some charitable person would have set fire to their vehicles to warm the poor souls while they stand there in the cold and damp. I'm just saying.

[Z_I_Peevey]

50. Here's a photo of their van as they were leaving.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20101114_11_A12_CUTLIN105145

[KamaAina]

51. Ohhhh-klahoma, OK!

:thumbsup:

[slackmaster]

52. Normally I don't approve of vandalism

The WBC people aren't normal.

[TrogL]

53. So that's where they were

They had announced that they were going to protest the Laramie Project in Edmonton and they never made it, much to the disappointment of several hundred counter-protestors.

[TheWatcher]

54. At this point, they should be very Thankful for such remarkable restraint.

They got off light.

[gratuitous]

55. I don't approve of vandalism

And I'm not going to excuse it because it happened to someone I find odious in the extreme. Having dealt with the good people from Westboro Baptist on a couple of occasions, I can state categorically that being vandalized and ostracized will reinforce their warped opinion that they are being persecuted for the sake of the gospel. Those verses from the Sermon on the Mount or the Sermon on the Plain are the be-all and end-all of their understanding the Bible.

The most effective way to treat with them is to show them wholly unmerited kindness. When we were graced by their presence in Kansas City one July afternoon, we bought them all cold drinks from a couple of street vendors (on the theory that bigotry is thirsty work). They refused, of course, but we didn't give them any context for their out-of-control hatred. So we left the drinks at their feet as almost an offering. Within a few minutes, they had vamoosed and taken the drinks with them. They count on hostility and feed off it like hate vampires or something. These are not people with normal values or attitudes. They welcome their unwelcome, and count it as proof that they're doing the Lord's work. Grace and kindness discombobulate them in the same way a normal person is puzzled by unprovoked animosity.

[haifa lootin]

56. A couple years ago, I removed the valve cores from all 4 tires on 3 of their vans

while they were protesting. It was borderline vandalism I suppose but did not do any actual damage...it sure inconvenienced the shit out of those dirtbags for a few hours though.

[proud2BlibKansan]

58. I'm not sure you should be admitting that on the internet

But I don't disapprove. :)

[haifa lootin]

60. If I need a legal defense, it will be that I was just giving their tires

a little rest.

:-)