Foreign Cars Targeted By Vandals in Michigan

Foreign Cars Targeted By Vandals
POSTED: Saturday, December 13, 2008
UPDATED: 5:28 pm CST December 13, 2008

WOODHAVEN, Mich. -- It seems the economic conditions and the auto
industry crisis is turning some Americans against Americans.

Woodhaven police said four cars on Friday, all produced by foreign
carmakers, had two tires slashed and "Buy USA" written on them, WDIV-
TV reported.

Police said three of the cars were parked in a strip mall in Woodhaven
that sits next to a Ford stamping plant.

Kim Lebecki's 2009 Toyota Camry was one of the four targeted by the
vandal.

"I work very hard to make the payment to drive the car of my choice in
the United States and someone else has the audacity to destroy these
vehicles," Lebecki said. "It saddens me to think, 'Is this a UAW
member who did this?'"

One of incidents was caught on a security tape. A red Ford Escape is
seen pulling into a parking space, a middle-aged man can be seen
approaching a red foreign car and slashing both tires. The man can
also be seen writing a message on the car before leaving.

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Foreign Car Vandal Caught On Tape:

http://www.click2houston.com/video/18272398/index.html

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Police search for man who vandalized foreign cars
BY ZLATI MEYER • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • December 14, 2008

Police are looking for a man they say vandalized five foreign cars in
Woodhaven store parking lots Friday, investigators said today.

He punctured both passenger-side tires on a Toyota, a Volkswagen, a
Honda, a Mazda and a Hyundai and wrote “Buy USA” on each car in
marker, police Lt. Robert Harabedian said. They happened between 3-6
p.m. outside the Lowe’s and Kohl’s stories in Woodhaven.

The suspect is a white man who drives a red Ford Escape and appears to
be middle-aged.

Anyone with information is asked to call 734-676-7337.

 

I like Michigan. You can go to a bar, and a girl will
come over and buy you a beer, and sit and tell
you her whole life story, and both of you laugh
'til the place closes, and you'll never see her again.
Just working people.

johns

 

I lived in Michigan for five years and spent some time in that same bar. I
had a rather different experience though. That girl would invite you back to
her place at closing time and screw your socks off....

 

This is about as childish as people cutting off supply routes to
neighborhoods that voted a certain way, even though other states and
counties in the nation did not? What if Georgia said you can't send
commerce to "xxx state"?

Sick of government, just get the whole country to go on a work strike
for about 3 years, and starve them out of power?

Hey, anything in America can happen, but whatever happens to auto
workers is not the worst thing?

Home of the free, and land of the brave, or land of the whaaaaaaah-
babies? You've lost your mind if you go puncture someone's tires
rather than fill out a job application?

 

Foreign Cars Targeted By Vandals
POSTED: Saturday, December 13, 2008
UPDATED: 5:28 pm CST December 13, 2008

WOODHAVEN, Mich. -- It seems the economic conditions and the auto
industry crisis is turning some Americans against Americans.

Woodhaven police said four cars on Friday, all produced by foreign
carmakers, had two tires slashed and "Buy USA" written on them, WDIV-
TV reported.
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Looks like an idiot. Toyota already provides technology to Ford for its
Escape. Merging Ford with Toyota would be a great choice as Ford, Mazda and
Toyota have a lot of mutual interests. GM/Chrysler is a basketcase as their
main financer Cerberus Capital Management, which owns Chrysler and a joint
stake in GMAC, allready received a $5 billion bailout from the feds in the
days leading up to the election. That’s because GMAC — the financing arm of
GM — had become a lame duck through it's risky financing schemes.

R