Guardian Promoting Vandalism
By Paul Homewood
The Guardian seem to think it’s a good idea to promote criminal activity.
The activists who took “climate action” against sports utility vehicles by flattening their tyres in the last two weeks have been receiving solidarity and calls for information from around the world.
Tyre Extinguishers provides instructions on how to deflate SUV tyres, offers guidance on who to target and collates reports of actions across the country. They have gauged the campaign’s reach by angry emails from SUV owners.
The group registered a website and started a Twitter account in July 2021. The first reports of actions came at the beginning of March. But in just the past week, activists have “disarmed” SUVs in Chiswick, Maida Vale, Wood Green and Muswell Hill in London, Brighton and Hove and Manchester.
Acting autonomously and, usually, under the cover of darkness, the activists have used lentils to deflate tyres by placing one inside the tyre valve, holding it open and slowly bleeding air until the tyre is flat. The group calculates they’ve deflated the tyres on at least a thousand vehicles in two weeks.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
God forbid I ever catch them letting my tyres down…………….
Quite so, TIC – but guess who the Police would then arrest……
He fell………….
He attacked my boot with his face, Constable.
Yet more ‘clever’ japes from those of a childish mentality. Good CCTV and on board cameras might interest the police to what is malicious criminality. It also reflects little of merit for The Guardian.
I look forward to XR’s Campaign against fossil fuels starting in Hyde Park on April 9th (Easter Holidays for the great unwashed), they intend bringing London to a halt. I would like to hope that the good natured tolerance towards these eco loons has evaporated and they get their comeuppance this time. (dragged away by the public and roughened up a bit,) remember the two dragged off the top of the tube train,, Happy days.
Administer a bath in The Serpentine?
A friend and I were reflecting recently on the fact that it has been easy to convince many people that something is happening when it isn’t (AGW, global warming, climate crisis etc.) for which there is little or NO evidence – but difficult to convince many that ruinables are a disaster when the evidence has been there to see for 15 years at least, if you look.
Thank you for all your efforts in this regard Paul.
“It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled.
No man’s life,liberty, and property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
― Mark Twain
How long before there is a serious accident with someone driving off with a badly underinflated tyre?
Not that XR, or our Beloved Leaders, will give a shit.
First they came for the SUVs … …
Criminal damage should be investigated and prosecuted. Incitement ditto – the Met knows where to find the editor and publisher of the Guardian.
Deflating tyres will certainly not reduce emissions. The recovery vehicle or a roadside assist vehicle will be called and incur greater mileage. The SUV will then, belatedly, contin ue its journey.
These actions have nothing to do with climate but with left wing political activism.
@ EppingBlooger. If the police and the CPS were competent then this potentially lethal criminal activity would be dealt with using existing legislation, including criminal damage. Is there a charge of conspiracy to cause criminal damage? That could carry a jail sentence.
The Met do something to protect law abiding citizens, that’s unusual.
Unusual!!! It’d be bl***y radical!
“Is there a charge of conspiracy to cause criminal damage?”
Yes, and not just criminal damage. Most crimes can be prosecuted via the planning aspect of them. The law was updated in 2008. It covers so-called “inchoate offences,” i.e. incipient ones.
Of course, almost all prosecutions are of completed crimes; and if a planned crime is simply abandoned, it is unlikely there will be much evidence anyway. However, a planned serious crime which is FOILED – robbers caught about- to-break-in, for example – might well result in use of the Act:
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/inchoate-offences
I doubt The Guardian is committing an offence merely by reporting this activity even if there is a gloating aspect to the coverage. Actually, the whole story smells fishy. Sometimes things are ‘reported’ which never happened.
An essential part of the crime is INTENDING that someone else be more inclined to actually COMMIT the (main) criminal act, after being egged on.This would probably excuse general hyperbolic language such as “Hooray for the activists!”
Thanks Dave. The conspiracy charges could / should be aimed at the organisers who incite others to commit the criminal damage, although finding the organisers might not be easy.
It’s not ecological, it’s class hatred. By the useless, ill -educated, undisciplined, drop out, can’t hack life, untermenchen
It’s just pure narcissism. They believe they are virtuous and so they believe everything they do is right. Wouldn’t surprise me if they are all Trustafarians – look at where they operate.
“Chiswick, Maida Vale, Wood Green and Muswell Hill in London, …” Don’t these people know such vehicles are essential on the school run!
They would be much more effective deflating the tyres of the private jets owned by the green/climate elites.
Brilliant!!!!
This would be interesting in deepest rural Warwickshire as usually the owner of the SUV comes complete with a shotgun and several large dogs.
Lentils used by activists to deflate tyres – it makes a change from eating the bloody things and subsequently emitting great clouds of methane. No, no irony at all!
I am certainly not an internet genius but surely the police must be able to track down exactly who set up the twitter and internet accounts and take appropriate action
Hello
Explain to me why the bad guy has more rights that the person whose property is being damaged. Years ago we were woken in the early hours by someone trying to break into our house. When he failed he tried to steal our loaded van ready for market. I quickly dressed in a track suit and phoned the police. Then I crept around the back of the house to the side door on our garage trying to find a drain rod to protect myself with in case he was armed. failing the drain rod in the dark I found my pitchfork. Suitably armed I approached the guy who was a very large individual probably a foot taller than me and very much bulkier. As soon as he saw me approaching he lashed out with his foot obviously aiming for my crotch
but catching me on my thigh. So I retaliated and stabbed him in the backside as he went to turn away. Wow boy did he jump. He would have beaten Lyn Davies with that one. anyway he ran off cursing me so I followed as quick as I could because he had given me a dead leg. After about half a mile I caught up with him and I must confess had great delight in sticking him in the butt again. He then ran off into the sea. When the police came out to their credit there was at least three car fulls and a dog van. The dog handler approached me and warned the dog not to attack so I pointed out where big guy had gone and he started laughing when I told him what I had done. ”Don’t tell the Inspector” he said ” he will probably charge you if you have damaged this guy. Any way he went with the dog to see if he came out of the sea so I limped back to my house. My wife greeted me with ”Are Georges’ (our farmer neighbour) pigs out because I heard one squealing before”. The Inspector picked up on our conversation and said ”Hello Hello what have you been up to” In his best imitation of PC Plod. I told him what I had done and all the other bobbies started laughing He warned me if if the guy was badly injured that I could be charged with assault so I had to drop my pants to show him the bruise by which time was black & blue.
They never did find the guy anyway so they couldn’t charge me but I must admit that I was worried for a while.
Those caught in possession of a packet of lentils can now presumably be arrested for going equipped to carry out acts of criminal damage. Supermarkets should stop selling them!
Oh such fun!
It won’t be quite so funny when one of these pr*cks gets caught in the act and is flattened by an irate motorist.
What happens if such an incident ends with someone in hospital on life support after falling on a pavement? Who’s to blame then? These self-indulgent clowns are engaging in criminal activity; when one is eventually caught they deserve the full weight of the law on them, not just a slap on the wrist.
BTW in midweek an activist tied himself to a goalpost at Goodison Park during Everton v Newcastle. (Up to that point it had been the safest place to protest as the game was a drab 0-0)
A similar event was thwarted by an alert steward at Wolves V Leeds. Expect more of this lunacy now spring has arrived.
Warning; video contains fruity football-fan language!
I suggested he should have been left where he was. He wasn’t ‘interfering with play’.
The stewards could have saved energy and dumped him in the seats. The debrief administered by the fans would have been amusing.
“…the tyres on at least a thousand vehicles in two weeks…”
—so at least four thousand tyres which, if completely deflated, could incur sidewall damage, necessitating replacement
I hope that a class-action civil damages claim can be brought against these vandals, so that they foot the bill. Plus, of course, criminal damage if the police get around to it.
Although I’m sure most policemen would agree, their senior officers and the Home Office will follow the example of the senior police officer at the last XR roadblockers. This ‘lady’ took care to tell the ‘protestors’ how important it was that they were all comfortable, and to stress that if any of them had any concerns the police would be happy to help.
This goes all the way up to a majority of the jury acquitting (after the judge’s guidance) the four yobbos who tore down Colston’s (listed) statue in Bristol, damaged it and threw it in the harbour. And the police just stood and watched them.
So take any action against the tyre vandals and see what support you get.
However, I note that the Grauniad’s piece could reasonably be interpreted as aiding and abetting the ‘activists’. Probably as also inciting.
It would be a shame if someone was to vandalise the property of Monbiot, Toynbee and all the rest of them. Superglue isn’t only good for sticking hands to asphalt.
One hopes they have taken the precaution of taking out medical and dental insurance…
Given me an idea, trip to Machynthlyth to deflate “Moonbat’s” tyres, only not just by opening the valve.
I will be passing through Machynthlyth next week. If anyone knows where Moonbat charges his ev, I’ll stop by, pull out the charging lead and spray rhe socket liberally with conductive paint. I won’t stick around to watch the fireworks display though!
B*****ger, just found out he’s moved to Oxford – as if it wasn’t bad enough already!!!!
What else would you expect from the Guardian?
‘The activists who took “climate action” against sports utility vehicles by flattening their tyres in the last two weeks have been receiving solidarity and calls for information from around the world.
Tyre Extinguishers provides instructions on how to deflate SUV tyres’
Calls for information on how to deflate a tire. A movement with zero intellect.
The Guardian’s support for this or starving the Kulaks is simply a matter of degrees, not ethics.
On a legal note, letting a tyre down is obviously interference with someone’s property but doesn’t of itself do any damage, so a charge of criminal damage might not stick.
Does it not? It may well damage both the tyre and the hub. It’s possible it endangers life if drivers don’t notice.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/environmental-activists-target-4×4-drivers-23334102
“A spokesman for Cambridgeshire Constabulary said: “We have received three reports of flat tyres in the Cambridge area. Crimes have been raised for criminal damage and an investigation is ongoing.”
It’s the conspiracy element that could create the threat of jail time for the culprits, including those responsible for the Tyre Extinguishers website (if based in the UK)
I hope this bunch of complete cretins end up with jail time how they feel when a child is killed because of their actions!
Very adult and dangerous obviously. what ever car people drive it could be needed urgently.I used to read the Guardian as well as the telegraph to try and get some sort of consensus but one reason I stopped taking any notice of It was that it just full of left wing bo**ocks.
How about manslaughter when some unsuspecting driver is killed and or a pedestrian wiped out by a out of control vehicle. Yes you should check your tyres before driving but put 300 miles down with a slow puncture and guess what?
Slightly off course but Putin may yet prove to be the catalyst for the end of net zero!
…. Perhaps we can let the “tyres” down on the windmills…
… with some of that carborundum… 😀
Fortunately, nobody reads the Guardian.
Ordinary people are going to indulge in some vigilanteism “a la Canning Town DLR”
Madly off thread but windmills are producing 3% of our electricity as I write. We are doomed.
Likely, that would be a short-lived project in West Virginia. We have concealed carry, open carry and Castle Doctrine. I have cc for my pistol and a shotgun for otherwise on my 5 acres. We take our 2nd Amendment rather seriously in these hills. Our State Motto: “Montani Semper Liberi”….”Mountaineers Are Always Free”
I’m tempted to go around deflating bike tyres. Though I suspect the Tarquins who attack the SUVs may not be cyclists.
I would have thought most SUV’s would be fitted with tyre pressure monitors – my lowly 2017 Volvo saloon does.
Oh and another thing… a few years ago there was a similar spate of ‘get the SUVs’. The following winter, I was amused to see an email from the county police (NHW network), after a particularly snowy week, asking for people with SUV’s to volunteer to help out with transport problems. (Sorry guys – not on:-)
I, too, had the feeling that it was not a crime to let air out of a tyre.
However, imaging the quandary involved were there a notice on the wheel arch saying that the tyres had all been filled with CO2 to the normal high pressure……..
Other, gases, of varying effect, are, of course, available……..
Not quite sure was to the effect on the rubber of any, but a bit of a dilemma might just cause a bit of a rethink…..
Cops can always find a reason to arrest you.
Scratch a socialist and you will find a facist. The Grauniand and the BBC are full of anachist wannabes. Few would have the spine to do anything but that does not stop them promoting those who do.
Opps! fascist!
Very suspicious that all the cameras seem to be switched off during the vandalism and criminal damage.