Via Pat Synge
It was attached to a 4WD: “Save a job, shoot a greeny”.
Bumper stickers
WHILE PARKED parked in Mary St, Cygnet on Sunday 28th May, I noticed a green bumper sticker which was the ultimate in offensive language. It was attached to a 4WD: “Save a job, shoot a greeny”.
Let me suggest that this is incitement to murder. The person displaying this sign should be charged under the law, and the organisation producing the stickers prosecuted.
This kind of attitude is totally unacceptable.
I expect the police to deal with this.
Thomas van Andel, Cygnet
Source: The Cygnet & Channel Classifieds, 1st of June 2006. Issue 930.
Bumper to bumper
In response to Thomas Van Andel’s letter ‘Bumper Stickers’ (C&CC #930), whatever happened to freedom of speech? Our sticker may offend some people, but that is our opinion, you are entitled to yours and likewise we are entitled to ours. The stickers are not against the law unlike damage to property, which is. So the lawbreaker here would be you when you decided to vandalise our 4WD by writing on it.
It is ignorant people like that, the reason we have these stickers. To suggest wasting police resources on this kind of thing is just ridiculous, and how arrogant to expect the police to deal with this just by a letter. What makes you so inferior that you don’t have to go to a police station and put in a complaint like normal people do?
I’m sure if a company started printing a sticker that read ‘Save a tree, shoot a red-neck’ you would proudly put it on your car and drive around.
Why don’t you try, for a week, not to use anything that comes from a tree and see how far you get?
What’s your house made from? How would you put in your dole form? What’s more important: a tree or someone’s livelihood?
Plenty of people work hard and pay taxes so you can sit on your bum and write complaints all day.
D & K Fahey, Cygnet
Source: The Cygnet & Channel Classifieds, 8th of June 2006. Issue 931.
