Ecoterrorists at CU

[TJeeper]

Someone does not like my Jeep. Last week I had a machine screw in the driver rear tire on my TJ. It was screwed in one of the Vs on my MTR. There is no way it could have gotten in that position by driving over it. I pulled the wheel, put the spare on and dismounted the tire. Got the tire plugged on Monday, but I haven't had time to mount it back on the beadlock.

This morning I see my spare tire is almost flat. In it there is another machine screw, identical to the first. This one is screwed in at a 45 degree angle under one of the lugs. So I spend my morning mounting the first tire back on the wheel and swap it out for the damaged spare. I'm not a happy camper. I get to work late, and I filed a police report.

In the past week I have only parked in two locations, work and home. At home my Jeep is garaged, and I work at CU, so I know it was done at work. What really gets me upset is I don't understand the point. What is this person trying to get me to do, sell my Jeep and buy a Japanese hybrid? :shrug: All it has done is make me more upset about the "greenie" movement and want to make another donation to the Blue Ribbon Coalition.

[cwkelle]

that sounds like the work of a crazy lady, man!!!

[OlBlueCJ7]

CCTV security at work?

[Waifer2112]

What lot do you park in? I park off campus, in hopes of less of this type of thing. Some of these kids are handed everything in life, and don't have a lot of respect for others stuff.

[GRNMEG359]

Yea i know alot of those kids up there, and are all rich trust fund babies. It sounds to me like someone is trying to become there own lil activist, jus like there rich daddy was in the 60's:flipoff2: . I am sorry to hear that you have to deal with it though. Hasn't any one learned that a fire bomb at a gas station would work alot better than hurting some middle class citzens personal possesions:shrug:

[Waifer2112]

Yea i know alot of those kids up there, and are all rich trust fund babies. :


There are a lot here. But there are a lot of good kids, too. I know of one who maintains an A average, works well over 40 hours a week, and gives his parents $$$ each week from his checks. Oh, BTW, he hasn't lived at home since he started college. He just wants to help his parents, because they helped him so much. :shrug:

[GRNMEG359]

See there are GREAT, i repeat GREAT!!! kids up there!!!!
I have partied with them, talked with them, played music with them...but alot of them (trying my hardest not to generalize) are as i explained Rich, spoiled, and do not care about others personal posessions

[GRNMEG359]

It just makes me so mad when people hurt other people in there community with no reason for it and no excuse. Then again i do get rather rowdy when i am hanging out with my friend Jack Daniels and i am in Boulder so maybe i am just making to big of an assumption.

[Ink]

What I find so stupid is that by doing that it could make you have to buy new tires which is really hurting the enviroment not helping. Sounds to me like a self rightous idot not a right thinking individual

[scottycards]

So no one is having any issue making the transition from a screw in the tire (which absolutely could have been picked up on the street), to ecoterrorism?

Good Lord. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: OK, please continue the totally unfounded CU bashing........

[DADA_JEEP]

it's not one, it's two and it happened two sepperate days on the same tire

[GRNMEG359]

I don't think anyone is bashing CU directly. I am not atleast i think you will find the ppl i am talking about everywhere, I enjoy CU and the people but some things are just ridiculous

[Oscar]

Lets just wall it off that'll fixem

[scottycards]

I fail to see how a screw, or screws in the tire equate to ecoterrorism, particularly when it's a Jeep, and there are a scad of trucks up there, as well as larger luxury SUV's.

I just think it's a bit of a leap. Stranger things have certainly happened by chance, and not as the result of subversive ecoterrorism efforts.

[Yota]

Yeah not quite ecoterrorism, just plain old-fashioned douchebaggery.

[Steve]

douchebaggery.

I like that word. Gotta work it into a conversation this weekend. :D

[Malamute]

I fail to see how a screw, or screws in the tire equate to ecoterrorism, particularly when it's a Jeep, and there are a scad of trucks up there, as well as larger luxury SUV's.

I just think it's a bit of a leap. Stranger things have certainly happened by chance, and not as the result of subversive ecoterrorism efforts.

Seems to me that the chances of this happening twice to the same tire are pretty slim. But you weren't there and TJeeper thinks it looks fishy and actually saw it so I'll just go ahead and agree with you. ;)

Happy now? :flipoff2:

[scottycards]

I've been happy all along. I think others are the ones not happy.

I couldn't care less. :flipoff2:

[Mack]

So no one is having any issue making the transition from a screw in the tire (which absolutely could have been picked up on the street), to ecoterrorism?

Good Lord. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: OK, please continue the totally unfounded CU bashing........

I'll slap a solid x2 on this one.

[bsaunder]

Yeah not quite ecoterrorism, just plain old-fashioned douchebaggery.

had to quote it for the vocabulary word:D

[Yucca-Man]

Had the same thing happen about four times, IIRC at CSU. What are the odds that not just one, but FOUR screws would all find themselves inserted at 90* angle to the tread, directly into a thin sipe on my BFG ATs?

This occurred in early 2003, shortly after the invasion of Iraq. I lived in the "International House," full of Middle Eastern students and others...and not only did I have a lifted Cherokee, but it had Marine Corps plates. I finally made it a habit of walking 'round the Jeep prior to driving off, and the attacks ended just about the same time the semester did. Coincidence? Must be.

[old_man]

I had a trailer tire slashed in Moab by some bicyclists. Didn't realize what was happening when I saw them looking over the rig. Went out later to find a nice slice.

[gumcrew2]

That sucks
I had someone slash two of my 37" MTR's on campus last year (auraria) and I found out who it was thanx to some friends that volunteered to surveliance the area. I considered the trade of two of my MTR's for 4 of his pirelli's pretty fair

-Saul

[TJeeper]

So no one is having any issue making the transition from a screw in the tire (which absolutely could have been picked up on the street), to ecoterrorism?

Good Lord. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: OK, please continue the totally unfounded CU bashing........

Call it whatever you want, I don't care. Someone is screwing screws in my tires, and I have the only lifted Jeep in the lot. Accident? No, the tire shop found another hole in the first tire in the next lug over in the exact same place. They didn't get it in far enough.

I've been on campus for over 20 years. 90% of the people I know there are hard working, intelligent people who I enjoy working with. 9% of the people are only interested in themselves and what they get from other people. 1% are complete whack jobs with their own agenda and if you don't agree with them, will totally go off on you. With a campus as large as CU, that 1% gets to be a rather large number.

[Ghettojeep]

wow what a bunch of dumbasses, why in the tread and not side wall? If your gonna do something at least do it right...

[scottycards]

All I'm saying is that to label them an "ecoterrorist" seems strange to me.

Maybe someone is pissed off at you, but since you don't even know who it is, much less their motives, it's probably best not to label them. I think Yota got it right- calling them a douchebag would likely be a more accurate term.

I think the title of this thread would be more accurate if stated as: "some douchebag is fawking with my tires".

[Mack]

That sucks
I had someone slash two of my 37" MTR's on campus last year (auraria) and I found out who it was thanx to some friends that volunteered to surveliance the area. I considered the trade of two of my MTR's for 4 of his pirelli's pretty fair

-Saul

I'm going to pretend you didn't just admit to slashing someone's tires, and hope the timescale for the punch you well deserve in the future is accelerated.

[Mack]

All I'm saying is that to label them an "ecoterrorist" seems strange to me.

Maybe someone is pissed off at you, but since you don't even know who it is, much less their motives, it's probably best not to label them. I think Yota got it right- calling them a douchebag would likely be a more accurate term.

I think the title of this thread would be more accurate if stated as: "some douchebag is fawking with my tires".

x2, again.

Also- having seen your TJ, it's very similar to several others on campus. Perhaps someone thinks your TJ happens to be someone else's?

[Trango]

Whatever on the semantics. I think you're right to question the motives of this person and try to make sense of them.

Whatever you call it, it's still illegal and pretty lame.

[Malamute]

Whatever on the semantics. I think you're right to question the motives of this person and try to make sense of them.

Whatever you call it, it's still illegal and pretty lame.

Finally, someone not getting too literal with the complaint. I still think douchebaggery is a perfect description of the person.

I know I wouldn't be very happy with several screws in the same tire. No way that's just happenstance.

[gumcrew2]

I'm going to pretend you didn't just admit to slashing someone's tires, and hope the timescale for the punch you well deserve in the future is accelerated.

Thanx buddy!! Don't take it personally, but I like vigilante justice, and as long as you didn't slash my tires in the first place, you'd have nothing to worry about

-Saul

[Steve]

Thanx buddy!! Don't take it personally, but I like vigilante justice. I'm a real dumbass though because I like to brag on public web bulletin boards about the stupid and illegal stuff I do.

-Saul

Fixed it for ya. I'm sure that's what you really meant. :rolleyes:

[Tom N]

I kinda lean towards thinking it is a personal attack on you by some whackjob you pissed off. But that whole Boulder thing. Yeah.

[1BGDOG]

I kinda lean towards thinking it is a personal attack on you by some whackjob you pissed off. But that whole Boulder thing. Yeah.

Wow, I have lived in Boulder for 12 years, lived on the Hill for 8 of those years, drive my big Jeep all over Boulder, and no "ecoattacks" EVER on it. I am a lucky Bastage. PS the Coeds and the boys like the Jeep when I drive down Broadway during school hours.

[ColoradoXJ]

That sucks
I had someone slash two of my 37" MTR's on campus last year (auraria) and I found out who it was thanx to some friends that volunteered to surveliance the area. I considered the trade of two of my MTR's for 4 of his pirelli's pretty fair

-Saul

:blah: but I like vigilante justice, :blah:

wtf saul? you are not the police. someone slashes your tires, you talk to the cops, not hire your friends as 'surveillance' and 'mercenaries'

that chit should stop in elementary school... :thumbsdown:

don't get me wrong, i'd love to find the pricks that broke into my jeep and then stole it, but it wouldn't be for vengeful justice, it'd be to turn them in.

[Mack]

Thanx buddy!! Don't take it personally, but I like vigilante justice, and as long as you didn't slash my tires in the first place, you'd have nothing to worry about

-Saul

Right, so don't take it personally when someone hands your ass to you for pulling some stunt like that.