# What bumper stickers have you had stolen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2009, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172 "2009-12-06T05:40:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/41 "2009-12-10T15:26:00Z")
I had a lime-green ribbon (for my type of cancer - lymphoma) magnet that was stolen. Really? You would steal a cancer ribbon? I figured it was some teenager that liked the color. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/42 "2009-12-10T16:30:54Z")
I had a Darwin Fish stolen from my car. I stopped putting on bumper stickers after that because they screwed up my car pretty good talking it off. I think they used a hammer and chisel. ---
**Author:** ![Snowcarpet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowcarpet/32/257_2.png) [@Snowcarpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowcarpet)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/43 "2009-12-10T19:07:39Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I have a [=tags&includes=title"]FUCK YOU, I’M FROM AKRON]([http://www.etsy.com/view\_listing.php?listing\_id=28673285&ref=sr\_list\_11&&ga\_search\_query=akron+&ga\_search\_type=handmade&ga\_page=&includes](http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28673285&ref=sr_list_11&&ga_search_query=akron+&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&includes)[) sticker but I can’t put it on my car because the parking deck police will issue a citation. (Really.) HEH, I just saw this sentiment for sale on cute little lapel pins, I have an evil desire to buy a dozen 😛 I’d probably get fired though! When a relative ran the breast cancer 3-day, I bought promotional stuff to support her team. My car magnet was stolen almost immediately, so I just had to go and buy some more, although I was a little po’d. Go buy your own, don’t steal mine! Please, “Feel Your Boobies”! (totally work-safe, unless boobies is a bad word!) > **[Press Release - Feel Your Boobies® Foundation](https://qjrmdtej.a2hosted.com/)** > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feel Your Boobies Foundation Announces Closure After 20 Years of Impactful Service \[Harrisburg, PA\] — January 31, 2025 — After 20 years of dedicated service to educating young women on the importance of self exams, Feel Your... ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/44 "2009-12-10T19:41:44Z")
I guess I could get by with that, because I’ve seen a “Save the Ta-Ta’s” sticker in the deck. But I like the Akron one more. I got it at Rubber City Clothing. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/45 "2009-12-10T22:15:02Z")
Had a Darwin fish torn off my car, back around 1994 or so. They were pretty new back then. On the flip side, on two occasions people who were behind me (one at a stop light, one at a fast food drive-thru) actually got out of their cars, walked up to me, and asked where I’d gotten the fish, because they wanted one of their own. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/46 "2009-12-11T02:18:15Z")
> [@flickster](#): > > What’s the carbon footprint of the manufacture and printing of pointless Obama bumper stickers? Probably a lot less than two Air Force 1 flights across the pond in two weeks. > [@Clothahump](#): > > Back in the early 70s in Austin, I had an annoy-the-hippies sticker on my car. Looked like a peace symbol, but it was a B-52 in a circle and it said Peace Through Power. > > I walked out to my car one evening just in time to see two individuals muttering and bitching about what an evil S. O. B. I was. One of them walked up and broke my radio antenna off and threw it over his shoulder. It landed right in front of me. > > Imagine his surprise when I picked it up and started whipping him with it. I don’t condone whipping hippies but dude kind of deserved it. This made me chuckle because “Think with your dip stick” popped into my head. ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/47 "2009-12-11T03:28:31Z")
McCain '08 sticker scratched off. It seems Chicago is not my kind of town. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/48 "2009-12-11T17:43:51Z")
Opposite of stealing but back in '96 my roommate was a very conservative republican. I put a few Clinton/Gore '96 bumper stickers on his truck. He drove it around for a week before someone said something to him (nosy neighbors). Anyway, we got a big kick out of that for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/49 "2011-07-02T10:31:37Z")
I’ve never had one stolen. I do have an ex-GF that had several vandalized and several emblems stolen. Her minivan was a rolling billboard of atheist, way-to-the-left liberal and anti-establishment slogans. Amazing we lasted as long as we did. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/50 "2011-07-02T10:44:52Z")
My daughter had a bone-shaped “I ❤ my Pug” magnet stolen from her car. Guess someone was too lazy to go buy their own… or someone hates pugs. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/51 "2011-07-02T10:53:38Z")
None. And I’ve never stolen a bumper sticker or magnet, either. It is theft and/or vandalism. Let freedom speak. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/52 "2011-07-02T10:57:56Z")
Wait, what am I talking about? I vaguely remember stealing a Bush '08 yard sign once. Or maybe we just yanked it out. Eh, those things are free, anyway. Still, not sure I could touch someone else’s CAR. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/53 "2011-07-02T13:41:00Z")
The most innocuous, inoffensive bumper sticker of all time: _Riverside Christian College Building Futures, Shaping Lives [Series of digits which I assume is their phone number]_ Riverside Christian College being a private junior high school/high school in Queensland, Australia, where a friend of mine teaches. I have absolutely ZERO idea what beef anyone would have with that, but whaddyaknow, it was stolen. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/54 "2011-07-02T14:06:15Z")
I have a bumper sticker that says, “Let your compassion be greater than your fear” that someone tried to pick off. It’s still there, but very ratty looking. That’s okay - I just got my Obama '12 sticker in the mail that I’ll use to replace it. ---
**Author:** ![Kika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5fc32e/32.png) [@Kika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kika)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/55 "2011-07-02T14:10:15Z")
My dad had his truck vandalized earlier this year because he had a pro-Scott Walker bumper sticker on the tailgate. My ex-mother-in-law had a “fear this” with a scottie dog sticker stolen off her car, and my sister had her UWM school of nursing sticker stolen off hers. At least my dad’s made some kind of sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/56 "2011-07-02T15:16:48Z")
I had a lime green ribbon – for lymphoma, stolen. I was really ticked off – I mean, hey, steal the lady with cancer’s bumper sticker? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/57 "2011-07-02T15:41:39Z")
I’ve never had a bumper sticker stolen but I have had two different antenna toppers disappear. One was an 8-ball and the other was shaped like a hockey puck with my team’s logo on it. Now that I think about it, someone tried to remove the POW-MIA sticker off of my dad’s car. They scratched it all up but the sticker held fast. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/58 "2011-07-02T18:00:10Z")
Not stolen, but defaced. Back in mid 70’s I had a bumper sticker that read “Don’t Blame Me- I Voted For McGovern”; one year before Nixon finally resigned, someone violently scratched\* out the word “Don’t.” Logic wasn’t their strong suit, apparently. - Carved out the offending word, badly scratching the bumper underneath. . . ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/59 "2011-07-07T01:15:17Z")
Someone stole my “Republicans for Voldemort” sticker. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172/60 "2011-07-07T05:18:08Z")
Not stolen, but a friend who lives in the District of Michelle Bachman (See [The Congresswoman with the crazy eyes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=520775&highlight=congresswoman+crazy+eyes) and [The Congresswoman with the crazy eyes, part II](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=606893&highlight=congresswoman+crazy+eyes)) had her bumper smashed where she had a sticker for Michelle’s opponent. Nothing accidental, someone had clearly taken a hammer or tire iron to that part of her bumper. Several hundred dollars worth of damage. Obviously, someone there strongly disapproved supporting Michelle’s opponent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bumper-stickers-have-you-had-stolen/520172.md?page=4)