Foreign Cars Targeted By Vandals

Absolutely classless.

Taken from ClickOnDetroit.com

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WOODHAVEN, Mich. -- It seems the economic conditions and the auto industry crisis is turning some Americans against Americans.

Woodhaven police said four cars on Friday, all produced by foreign carmakers, had two tires slashed and "Buy USA" written on them.

Police said three of the cars were parked in a strip mall in Woodhaven that sits next to a Ford stamping plant.

Kim Lebecki's 2009 Toyota Camry was one of the four targeted by the vandal.

"I work very hard to make the payment to drive the car of my choice in the United States and someone else has the audacity to destroy these vehicles," Lebecki said. "It saddens me to think, 'Is this a UAW member who did this?'"

One of incidents was caught on a security tape. A red Ford Escape is seen pulling into a parking space, a middle-aged man can be seen approaching a red foreign car and slashing both tires. The man can also be seen writing a message on the car before leaving.

"We don't have any positive evidence to link a Ford employee with this incident," said Lt. Robert Harabedian, of the Woodhaven Police Department.

 

Someone dented the door on my Tundra last month. It wasn't scratched. It was dented twice and not by another car. Since the offender didn't own up to it, I presumed that it was intentional and done by someone with a "buy American" message for me. I'm not sure how I should respond to such acts of patriotic vandalism. If these vandals wanted to really make a statement that I should buy American, they should have stepped up and paid some of the repair bills on my last two American-built vehicles.