In an email circulated on Monday morning, the Tyre Extinguishers said the attack was in response to an incident in which a Land Rover crashed through a school fence into an end-of-year tea party at the Study Prep school in Wimbledon, south-west London, killing eight-year-olds Selena Lau and Nuria Sajjad, and injuring 16 others
Madness that you can't even be safe away from the street.
Good on them. I don't have the appetite for risk right now to do this type of activism, as I have a family to think about, but I wish I had done more in my 20s (I did some but didn't raise enough hell), and I intend to do a shitload more after I retire, if we're all still around.
Creating about five tonnes of waste isn’t really a good look for an environmental protest. I get the point they’re making and largely agree, but this isn’t really an effective message to me.
Damaging private property, which will be insured and easy to repair, because of an act of negligence by an unrelated individual, is an interesting line of reasoning.
Also, how do they decide what is or isn't an SUV? Technically a Corolla Cross is an SUV.
Anti-SUV activists used a power drill to sabotage the tyres of more than 60 4x4 vehicles at a car dealership, in an attack they described as a reprisal for the deaths of two girls in a crash at a primary school last month.