Here's a leaflet you can put on SUV windshields when you deflate their tires to convey the message. The group posted flyers on Twitter instructing individuals to wedge rocks into the tire valve of SUVs and place a “leaflet” on the windshield to convey a message to anyone driving them. In what is being described as “a gentle escalation of methods,” climate activists from the group Adbusters are launching the deflation campaign “to drive the urgency of this climate crisis home and engender a systemic aversion” to SUVs. Back in April, KATV News in Arkansas reported:Ĭlimate activists urge people to deflate SUV tires ‘to hit’ car industry ‘where it hurts’Ĭalling climate change “the biggest crisis we’ve faced as a species,” a group of climate activists are instructing people to deflate the tires of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) in order to drive their point home that the large-sized vehicles are “totally unnecessary” and one of the largest contributors of global CO2 emissions. This campaign didn’t materialize out of thin air. We have an American English leaflet ('tire' rather than 'tyre') on our website so USA folks, you can join in! /FLHZn2CkemĪpparently, none of these geniuses have considered that this will simply lead to producing more tires, which probably won’t align with their climate change concerns. They didn’t comment on the legality of vandalizing SUVs.īIG NEWS: TYRE EXTINGUISHERS STRIKE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEW YORK CITY!Ĥ0 SUVs disarmed in the Upper East Side, the first of many.
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The spokesperson referred Fox News Digital back to the group’s website in response to a series of other questions. We love him.“We are rapidly expanding across the United States and are in touch with people in major cities across the USA,” a spokesperson for the Tyre Extinguishers told Fox News Digital. It might be Wednesday, it might be Friday, but he definitely comes once a week at least. To us, he’s part of our family and all the customers and staff just love seeing him.“He comes consistently every week. “He likes the warm feeling and feels welcomed. “As soon as he sits down, every staff member knows what he would like to eat and drink, and how he would like his food cooked.“He says he comes here because the price is reasonable, the service is friendly, and he knows we serve quality food. I always leave by 11 o’clock and then I go and visit the library.”Poppins is managed by Irfan Yildiz, who took over the cafe four years ago.He said: “Don always orders our budget breakfast which is very popular with pensioners.“When Don comes in, he doesn’t even need to tell us what he wants to eat or drink. It’s just so friendly.I have the Favourite Five breakfast, with tinned plum tomatoes and a soft egg.“I order a cup of tea – not too strong, not too weak – with two sugars and a tap water.“I am very regimented in my ways.
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A pensioner could be Britain’s most loyal customer after tucking into a full English breakfast at the same café for 30 YEARS.Don Gilbert, 82, has been a regular at Poppins Café Restaurant in Worcester since he first discovered it in the early 1990s.The historian and author started popping into the café on his way to the library every Wednesday.He is now a regular fixture and has barely missed going into his favourite eaterie for more than three decades.Don always sits down for his breakfast at 10.30 am and orders the same meal, a ‘Favourite Five’ fried breakfast washed down with a cup of tea.The £4.49 brekkie consists of bacon, sausage, fried egg, and toast with beans or tomatoes.Don, from Kidderminster, Worcs., said: “I just love it here and it’s part of my weekly routine.“I always get here around 10.30 am and order the same thing which is always £4.49.“It’s a lovely place and there are people here to talk to.