This is one of the reasons that Tyre Extinguishers target SUVs
https://tyreextinguishers.com/
Genuinely curious. I don't know what I'd do in that scenario. Probably yell at them and then get out the air compressor.
Your SUV harms everyone around you, yet nobody assaults you or threatens you for it.
If I let the air out of someone's tires, I would absolutely be watching my back. I wouldn't expect a meek response.
Incidentally, in most of the US, some amount of non-lethal force is allowed in the defense of real or personal property.
So what _would_ you do? Shoot them in the leg? Beat them with a baseball bat? Punch them in the face? Shove them around a bit? Shout at them and then go home and fantasize about shooting them?
probably unofficially "electing" someone smart with industry experience and leadership abilities to think about these issues. a union leader of sorts. you need someone to congregate people. then you get them to create voting campaigns for certain politicians who are willing to break apart the car industry's grasp on just about everything in this country. then, you build marketing campaigns, you hire your own lobbyists who are maybe crowdfunded or have private interest from more liberal private donors, i dunno. literally anything is better than having your citizens go and screw up other citizen's property. nothing will change this way, i can guarantee you that.
You make the world a worse place by choosing your comfort over safety of others - you get some minor inconvenience to deal with sometimes. To me it's activism working as intended.
To get literally everyone to hate you? People don't like their private property destroyed, esp. randomly and unprovoked. See how much support the idiots throwing soup on art are getting.
You aren't going to win over the hearts and minds of anyone with this take. Do better.
if you're parked on the street in a city, you now need to deal with getting a pump or getting it towed which the latter is hundreds of dollars. which isn't a minor inconvenience. and on top of that, if you can't move your car you now start getting parking tickets. everything costs time and money, and some people can't afford that. not all of us area SWEs making 300k.
this kind of activism doesn't do anything and is honestly naive and ultimate cringe. talk about the rich getting the poors to basically destroy each other while actively being preyed on. the car industry is so large and has such deep pockets that SUVs are here to stay unless actual lawmakers get together and do something differently. a few flat tires will do nothing more than enrage your fellow people and instead cause them to vote the opposite way only to spite the people that ruined their day/afternoon/weekend. and that's not even mentioning this type of stuff can get you actually killed in the wrong area.
this website feels like a project created by a sheltered, clueless college kid who thinks theyre changing the world
the issue doesn't lay with people who buy SUVs but with prior campaigns that introduced them into the country, the large swaths of money that have created this market and that is continuing growing larger. its become a snowball effect because nowdays, driving a smaller car is actually more dangerous and so people that don't even want an SUV originally (someone like myself) are getting one or want one, because if i ever get into a car accident, i have a higher risk of death. A LOT of people think this way, and so it has nothing to do with the types of people that think like "i want a bigger car to compensate for something or because theyre super cool bro", those people are in the minority. it's that they're safer given the already vast amounts of SUVs out there, especially for people with kids.
so the whole premise of flattening tires, or destruction of other people's properties is idiotic at best, and dangerous at worst. you really think someone exhausted with a 3 year old who finds their car's flat tire and that absolutely stupid sticker on their windshield is going to be convinced? you've instead just enlisted an enemy who will actively vote against "ban SUVs." good luck with that campaign.
FTFY. So we should ban cars? Plus, there's a difference between something literally called an accident with destruction of property.
violence is a perfect response to wanton destruction of personal property. sometimes you idiots need a good whoopin ;) i'll beat your ass to a bloody pulp in front of your children to teach them a real lesson about their loser daddy that doesn't respect others property.
bubble boy retards out in force.
Lot of folks have SUVs because they have large families. Its a pain to keep a huge car in a city like NYC or London anyway so people generally have reasons. There were a wave of such tire puncture incidents in NYC which forced some people to drive 30-40 miles every week to park the car in suburb or NJ (parking in city is very expensive)
The end result was more emission, more pain and less sympathy for the actual problem.