[Peace-discuss] Boycott Tires Plus?

Mon Feb 17 09:54:15 CST 2003

Yes indeed it was comic NOT SIMPLY KARMIC! The African man(name withheld!)
who owned the van was totally bewildered and there was a sense of de
javous(spelling???) when he watched these Americans resorting to the Lagos
techniques! First the tyre shop trying to make sure the van was blocked so
it can be towed for profit!!!??......then these brave Americans
practically lifting the van and making it possible for the driver to take
off really fast before the tow track showed up! The van was then parked at
the chinese restaurant across the street! Athough the chinese govt banned
demos, Chinese businessmen and women in USA are wonderful supporters
against the war!! I hope the tyre neighbors learn some lesson from this.
Now the tires of the van were ruined and I HOPE THIS COMPANY DOES NOT GET
THE BUSINESS TO REPLACE THE TIRES!!!
In the meantime effort to convince the management at the tyre shop were
frustrating! The manager demanded that the van be removed or
else!???...BUT HE WAS TOO BUSY TO REMOVE THE WAGON THAT HAD BLOCKED THE
VAN!!!!............ANYWAY THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO HELPED THE PUPPLEXED
AFRICAN MAN. HE DOES NOT SPEAK ENGLISH SO I HAVE TO REPRESENT HIM!!!!!
CHEERS AND KEEP THE PRESSURE ON TO STOP THE BUSH(PUN INTENDED!!) WAR!
IT MAKES NO SENSE.....EVEN IN FRENCH!!!!OR TEXANESE!!!!
CHEERS.

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               ANOTHER DEADLINE........ANOTHER MIRACLE!

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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Alfred Kagan wrote:

> I agree.  Furthermore, does anyone think it was a coincidence that
> the person who was blocked was an African?
>
> At 8:37 AM -0600 2/17/03, Lisa Chason wrote:
> >Do folks think it would be right to start publicizing what Tires Plus has
> >been doing? I've generally told people to "park in Lowe's, not at the tire
> >place because they may have you towed." Not wanting to name the business
> >because maybe it was just some of the people who worked there that were
> >hostile. Now with what Jim has described and what Ricky said at last night's
> >AWARE mtg -- that he's seen the truck there that tried to mow us down back
> >in the early days -- perhaps we should explicitly state in our flyers: Do
> >not park at Tires Plus
> >and put a little piece in the Public I suggesting that people not patronize
> >that business?
> >Could of course make them even more hostile and we are rather vulnerable,
> >standing between them and the traffic.
> >Would like to hear what others think.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jim Buell" <jbuell at prairienet.org>
> >To: "John Fettig" <jfettig at students.uiuc.edu>
> >Cc: "peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.groogroo.com>
> >Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 4:01 PM
> >Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] today
> >
> >
> >>  It was an alls-well-that-ends-well situation. A P4P participant (someone
> >>  told me he's a prof in Vet Med) who evidently hadn't been to the event
> >>  before had parked his van in the Tires Plus lot because he hadn't heard
> >>  that the jerks there tow. The manager came out, started shouting "who owns
> >>  this van?" and people nearby tried to spread the word, but nobody knew
> >>  right off. Someone told me he then threatened to call a tow truck (as if
> >>  those were available in conditions like yesterday's :)), then he (or
> >>  somebody from the shop) parked a small station wagon so its back end was
> >>  just behind the van, blocking it in. The van driver showed up and didn't
> >>  know what to do. I think a passenger from his van went in and tried to
> >talk
> >>  with the manager, but eventually he came out - no idea what was said, but
> >>  the station wagon didn't get moved. Then, brilliance! One of our number
> >>  realized that since the van was sitting on ice, a dozen hardy souls could
> >>  simply push its rear end sideways to get it out from behind the station
> >>  wagon. A little heave-ho, and the deed was done. I doubt the Tires Plus
> >guy
> >>  ever figured out how it got done. I do indeed have film of a good bit of
> >>  this little episode (and can pull stills from that) - figured it would be
> >>  good to document in case the going got rough for any reason, though
> >happily
> >>  it didn't.
> >>
> >>  All in all, a karmic moment. As, by the way, was the fact that Channel 15
> >>  had a long shot on its 10 pm news last night showing several of P4P'ers
> >>  helping push a small white pickup truck that was spinning its wheels going
> >>  southbound toward the overpass on Prospect. Now viewers know we're a
> >>  regular bunch a' boy scouts :).
> >>
> >>  peace,
> >>  Jim
> >>
> >>  At 11:15 PM 2/15/2003 -0600, John Fettig wrote:
> >>  >* Jim Buell <jbuell at prairienet.org>:
> >>  > > P4P was fantastic - something like 160-170 people were there according
> >>  > > to Ricky's count, despite near-blizzard conditions. So sorry to hear
> >>  > > about your getting stuck. All 3 tv stations had video of us on their 6
> >>  > > pm news, too - I'm guessing we'll be there at 10 as well. I just
> >>  > > noticed that Ben Grosser has a lot of superb pics online - some at
> >>  > > www.ucimc.org, the rest at his own website linked from there. I won't
> >>  > > bother grabbing stills off my video - his are much nicer!
> >>  >
> >>  >Speaking of video, I noticed you were filming the on-goings down by
> >>  >Tires Plus.  Mind posting an account of what was going on down there?
> >>  >It appeared that they had boxed the beige van in with that station
> >>  >wagon...
> >>  >
> >>  >There was an altercation further up the line, I have posted an account
> >>  >and one (sorry no action shots) picture on www.ucimc.org.
> >>  >
> >>  >John
> >>
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