do people really become belligerent

[storch]

over stuff like bumper stickers or what might be on a T shirt?  moslems not withstanding  apparently they are easy to upset. would someone be phyiscally assaulted over a bush/cheney bumper sticker while cruising bedford-stuyvesant in an SL500?

[lasersailor184]

There's a town by me named West Chester (PA, not new york).  It is a liberal hot bed.  If you go in there with Cheney/Bush stickers, there's a good possibility your car will get scratched, dented, so on and so forth.  It might even happen while you are driving.

[SOB]

When I met MT in Kalifornia, he punched me in the mouth for wearing a "W" cap.  I wish he would've just asked first though...the W stood for Wonder Woman!

[xrtoronto]

I'm beginning to see this conflict more as a clash of cultures. They really appear to be 1000 years behind us. So much of their first responses is abject violence. And within their own society. I was approached to sign a petition last summer when I was walking around shopping. In Iran they hung to boys one 15 the other 16 for having gay sex. I signed the petition which was dozens of pages of signatures already to voice my outrage over this kind of thing.
The Taliban used to use the large sports stadium to have public executions. I really sense that something has awakened in the west with this current rioting and violence over the cartoons.  It sure has in me.

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by SOB
When I met MT in Kalifornia, he punched me in the mouth for wearing a "W" cap.  I wish he would've just asked first though...the W stood for Wonder Woman!

Dammit man! I punched you because it stood for Wonder Woman!

[OOZ662]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Dammit man! I punched you because it stood for Wonder Woman!

I punched him because it stood for "w00t"

[storch]

Originally posted by SOB
When I met MT in Kalifornia, he punched me in the mouth for wearing a "W" cap.  I wish he would've just asked first though...the W stood for Wonder Woman!

pffft. more like a limp wristed left handed girly throw attempt at a slap, which no doubt lossened some of your teeth and left you out cold.

[SOB]

I didn't pass out, but I did have a good cry that lasted longer than the pain.  Unfortunately, Airhead wasn't there to console me.  

[storch]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
There's a town by me named West Chester (PA, not new york).  It is a liberal hot bed.  If you go in there with Cheney/Bush stickers, there's a good possibility your car will get scratched, dented, so on and so forth.  It might even happen while you are driving.

really? have there been any documented incidents of that type of behavior?

[storch]

the closest I've ever seen was during the 1980 mariel boatlift when castro vomited 100,000 undesirables here in s. florida.  the massive influx did put a large strain on the community.  some long time residents fled to gainsville and points north causing others to devise a bumper sticker that read "will the last american leaving miami please bring the flag"  it offended some people.  I personally found it to be funny.  some folks countered with another sticker that said "don't worry the flag will still be here when you return" so there was a sort of bumper sticker war going on.  a friend who is a sign maker came up with one that said "will the last bigot leaving miami see me for gas money" which I found extremely humorous and had one on my pick up.  no one ever asked me for gas money though.

another friend had a "run jesse run" bumper sticker on his truck. he got it from the failed jesse jackson presidential nomination supporters during his presidential bid in 1984 I think.  he placed that on his front bumper and he never had any problems with that either even though we work in very hostile predominantly black areas.

another friend had a bumper sticker that asked "if little girls are made from sugar and spice why do women smell like fish?" and he did get lots of grief for that and eventually removed it but never any violent reactions.

lastly there is a huge gay population here and they proudly fly their usurped and unoriginal "rainbow flags" and rainbow bumper stickers also with no apparent ill efffect.

it must be a moslem thing.

[Chairboy]

Funny, a friend of mine had his window smashed in by someone who took offense at his darwin fish.

[Pooh21]

it wasnt bumper sticker related, but in the Tucson walmart parking lot this guy started to back up without looking almost over my wife, and after I pushed her out of the way, I buried the punching key on my key ring in his toyotas taligate, left a nifty dent 2 ft square with a little hole in the middle. Unfortunatly he didnt get out , woulda loved to seen the look on his face when he saw the damage.

[capt. apathy]

I never had any body make a huge issue of it, but there are a few neighborhoods around where I get some strange looks from the 2 stickers I had on my last truck.

the first said "If we weren't supposed to eat animals, why do they make them outta meat?"

and the other I made by cutting up one of those "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty" and changed it to

"practice sense and act less random"

[Suave]

Originally posted by Chairboy
Funny, a friend of mine had his window smashed in by someone who took offense at his darwin fish.

What's the western version of "HALALALALA" ?

[lasersailor184]

My father's jeep was scratched.  There were no signs of forced entry, nor was anything taken.  He had the only car in the area that was scratched, and none of the other cars had Bush stickers on them.

I have seen it multiple times when I've gone through West Chester.