I see a “screw” sticker over the heart. Clever defacement?
I had a “YANKEES SUCK” bumper sticker on my first car, in high school, and it lasted all of two weeks (I grew up in an area that was split 50/50 between Red Sox and Yankee fans). To be fair, I was parking five days a week in a high school parking lot, so I was especially high risk.
Within a week, easy.
You’re not a paranoid exNew Yorker. People in small cities are just as stupid as big city folk and seem to think they can get away with more because there’s less people around to rat 'em out or even see them defacing your car.
I’ve lived in a lot of conservative rural areas (albeit not in the south) and, at least in my experience, fucking with another person’s vehicle is simply not done in rural America, even if they are a disciple of the Antichrist.
Let us know how it goes!
Really? That’s a pretty horrible bumper sticker. People love their cats, and cats do get run over, and in fact there are people who will deliberately hit cats with their cars. I would never vandalize someone else’s car, but I can’t imagine a bumper sticker that would make me feel more tempted to.
I could never be friends with someone who had a bumper sticker like that.
Perhaps Anaamika just has a pile of old tires in his or her yard that doubles as a fun kittie fort. In my experience, people with that bumper sticker are certainly the types to have large piles of discarded car parts in their yard.
Well, I’ve lived in Kansas, which is not the deep South, but yeah, Kansas, and let me tell ya, I’ve seen Clinton/Gore stickers defaced, and windows markered, so yeah, it does happen in rural areas, at least it did back then, and today’s political climate emboldens the conservative loon, so I’d be surprised if it doesn’t still occur there.
Are you trying to collect on an insurance policy on this vehicle,perhaps??? 
People vandalize cars everywhere. City, small-town, liberal-areas, conservative-areas…everywhere.
I’m in a deep red area and my Obama magnet lasted about a year. I often wondered if it was obvious it was a magnet and not a sticker.
I got an occasional comment, and one time the car wash guy pulled it off to hand it to me and told me “He’s gonna take all your money when you die!” I said I probably wouldn’t need money after I was dead. This was the only time any car was person removed the magnet.
Eventually, the magnet disappeared. I will never know if it was removed or fell off.
I hope not - It’s only 1 1/2 years old.
Maybe I should reduce the deductible first…
That makes no sense to me. You’d judge a person, their entire lives, and everything they are in this world, on the basis of a bumper sticker? Seriously?
But that’s fine, go ahead and judge. I didn’t write the bumper sticker. I just thought it was funny. But I am a big fan of black comedy. If we don’t laugh in this world, we’d just cry our whole lives.
Of course not. Just like I wouldn’t judge a person, their entire life, and everything they are in this world on the basis of a racial slur. But I wouldn’t be their friend. Good people do bad things every day, from minor acts of insensitivity to horrible acts of cruelty. I’ve worked with criminals and drug addicts and sexual offenders, and some of them are otherwise nice people. I genuinely believe that even the worst of us have redeeming qualities and that it is impossible to hate someone when you know their story. But that doesn’t mean that I enjoy being around everyone or that I want to associate socially with everyone. I enjoy your posts on the Dope, and though you probably don’t know me from Adam, I genuinely have thought of you as someone I like. But no, I wouldn’t be friends with you knowing that you chose to display that bumper sticker. I find it hurtful and offensive and although I believe you when you say that wasn’t your motivation, I don’t want to be around a person who expresses the idea on that sticker, even jokingly.
<shrug> Fine. If it’s any comfort, I do not at this time, nor have ever, run down any kitties, voluntarily or otherwise. I mean, I don’t like cats much, but I do love pets, and don’t particularly want to break someone’s heart over their beloved pet.
This is why I don’t often share my sense of humor - people just don’t get me. I mean, it doesn’t mean I am for kitty-running-down!
Don’t worry, I never thought you were actually a practitioner of or in favor of running down cats, but that’s only because I know you from your other posts on the board. I do assume, though, that you find the idea of running over cats to be amusing. If you tell me otherwise, I’ll believe you, but again, that’s only because I sort if know you, and it won’t completely excuse in my mind what I still consider to be a horrible and mean “joke.”
I don’t know how to explain this without doing the equivalent of Godwinizing the tread. Let me start by saying that I do NOT consider cats the equivalent of people, nor do I think anti-catism comes close to the enormity of racism or other bigotry. Nevertheless, I feel much the same way about that bumper sticker that I would about a similar joke with blacks or gays or women as the target. Even if the person with the bumper sticker assures me that it’s just their quirky sense of humor and they don’t really dislike the target person, and even if I believe them, I’m going to feel extremely uncomfortable around them and harbor very negative feelings towards them.
Again, I don’t think animals are people, but I do love my cats. Even if I thought of them merely as property, though, I’d still dislike the bumper sticker. It’s aggressively hostile towards me, threatening as it does not just cats in general but my cats. I wouldn’t appreciate a sticker that “jokingly” but without context threatened to key my car or break into my house. In a given context those things might be funny, but not on a bumper sticker where there is every chance that the person placing it was at least partly sincere. To you it’s a joke, but to me it’s a plausible threat towards me and something I love that is in fact vulnerable to you.
I assume you wouldn’t put a bumper sticker on your car that said “Child missing? Look under my tires” or “Black person missing? Look under my tires.” I assume you wouldn’t put a bumper stick on your car that said “Tailgate me and I’ll follow you home and slash your tires” or, to be apropos, “I’ll [picture of a key] your 'I [heart] Obamacare” bumper sticker." If you did, I expect you’d understand people’s reactions.
The fact that you would and did put the cat sticker on your car indicates to me that either you do think running over cats is funny or you’re clueless enough to think no one would feel offended or threatened by it, or you think making me feel offended and threatened is funny. I don’t know which. There’s a lot about your character I can’t tell just from that sticker. I can tell just enough to know that I don’t want to associate with you.
Get a room you two!
I know this is IMHO and not the Pit, and I tried very hard to keep my post appropriate. I may have failed at the very end. In light of that and a very nice PM I just received from Anaamika I’m not going to edit my post, but rather add publicly that I do recognize that the sticker was on your car a long time ago, Mika, and I shouldn’t assume that it’s the sort of thing you’d display now. Again, context matters a lot, and I have a lot more context here on the board than I would have seeing your car in real life, and it tells me that you’re a much nicer person that I’d assume from just seeing the sticker. No hard feelings, and sorry to all for the hijack.
We did, and I think we’ve reconciled. FTR, for anyone else, I think running over cats is a VERY BAD IDEA. And kittens are adorable, so anyone who figures out how to keep cats, kittens, will be my hero.
Well, congenital hypothyroidism results in cats whose growth, maturation, intelligence, etc is severely retarded. They have been described as perpetual kittens.
Hero?
Thought of this thread recently, and I’m curious…has anything happened? Is the sticker still there??