Global warming: green campaigners blamed for 4x4 attacks

Neil Hyde
The Observer,
Sunday July 20, 2008

Green campaigners are being blamed for vandalising a number of 4x4 cars in Marston, Oxford, on Thursday night. The owners of six vehicles found that tyres had been let down and warning letters plastered to the windscreens.
'Driving an SUV is an unacceptably selfish act in the face of this global emergency,' the notes state. 'Your destructive vehicle and scores of others across Oxford have been disabled as part of a wider struggle to avert a global emergency.'
A Land Rover Discovery, two Honda CRVs, a Mitsubishi Shogun, a Subaru and a Mitsubishi truck were attacked. 'To target 4x4s is unfair, given the fact that mine has a much smaller engine than bigger cars. But it is nothing more than an irritant,' said Daniel Lea, owner of one of the Hondas.'