Meet the climate activists deflating tyres to stop SUV ownership
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- They call themselves "The Tyre Extinguishers" and say they have one aim: to make it impossible to own a 4x4 in the world's urban areas.
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The climate activists go out at night and deflate the tyres of SUVs in affluent areas, from the UK and Scandinavia, to New Zealand and the USA.
They claim they've struck around 5,000 vehicles all over Britain in the last few months, with one police force describing their actions as reckless.
We’ve been to meet them.
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please don't do this in rural Texas, you'll probably get deflated yourself in no time. rural America for that matter
@Bob Terwilliger I have a friend named Bob, he did a twenty year stretch for being a tough white guy. Sometimes he gets excited and tells me some stuff. I ask "you did that? He says "no, but I thought it! We call that pulling a Bob. No fake conservationists were hurt in the making of these post!
@Bob Terwilliger Pychopath much?
Will help some what the overpopulation problem that is causing global warming a few less humans!
❤️👌🏾🙌
Please, ABSOLUTELY do this in rural Texas! If you're dumb enough to do it at all, you deserve to face Texan consequences.
driving with deflated tyres make the car even more fuel inefficient
@@Steven-vo4ee that damages tires and then more pollution by dealing with tire waste and more burnt fuel
@@Steven-vo4ee no you plug in your PUMP and use MORE ELECTRICITY i swear to god if i caught 1 of these lil weak limp wrists touching my truck ill BEAT THEM HALF RETARDED (enough to cause memory loss) and drag them down the road and leave them to the elements.. i will crush their phone, and take their money for my compensation though
Oh ill make a point of burning some plastic in my garden too just to pollute a lil extra 😉
No it doesn't 🙄
@@ExplodingPiggy yes it does you idiot
MORONS
As much as I dislike SUVs, these people shouldn’t be tampering with others’ personal property.
SUV drivers shouldn’t be tampering with other people’s heart-rates (by reducing them to zero) this is even.
@@allergy5634 not all SUV drivers do that though. These “activists” are complete and utter morons who should be arrested. Their actions will only cause more harm than good
I understand the story here but for the reporter to watch them deflate so many car tyres and then come back for reactions when people are starting their day is a bit much. If i found out that the guy interviewing me was actually there watching the people let the air out of my tyres, i'd more than a bit pissed off.
Channel 4, what do you expect.
He’d be picking his teeth out
Of his throat.
Like me behind a woman in a massive car trying to park.
@@emerybayblues Tough guy.
He's a journalist. The entire point is not to interfere with anything, but to report on it. Same goes for war, wildlife, etc.
They don't just want to fight for climate, they also want to fight for the right to not instantly die when getting hit by a drunk driver
It's not just drunk drivers. It's not very hard for sober drivers to accidentally kill people.
Exactly, two birds, one stone.
Mate, what? These narcissistic f*cks
These people (if you can even call them that) should be in a mental hospital.
The owners of the vehicles they are vandalizing paid for them with their own money. I hope the money to repair them comes out of the so-called "activists" pockets.
@@M4A1BestGirl Inb4 you crash into a wall because your 5 ton main battle tank of a car is too difficult to control without changing the brake pads after every single trip to the grocery store
Ironically going past V8/V6 cars and deflating hybrid SUVs......
They're all twats.
Nobody said they were clever
That's very dangerous...you can break your nose doing that!
More live every finger
I'm guessing none of them have dental coverage. That's gonna suck having to pay for dental repair out-of-pocket.
@Bob Terwilliger We have two shepweilers (shepherd/rottie) and a Dutch shepherd. I'd have no hesitation opening the door and watching the show.
@Bob Terwilliger I hear ya'. Our Dutch shepherd is 110lb. - and our largest shepweiler is 85lbs (and is 1/3rd doberman also). They're all gentle and loving around people they know...but they're all incredible guard dogs and very protective of the property. The Dutch is basically a police dog without a badge, lol. Cheers.
I can think of a very good use for a tyre iron on these wankers. It would be a wee bit messy. But I can guarantee they’d never pull that stunt again.
You need to be very careful doing this....A lot of gang/drug dealers/very violent people drive certain SUVs... Pick the wrong person's car and you might end up in a casket.
Lol shut up "dave"
hopefully they do so they get a good hiding
One can only hope.
All the best gangster’s drive a Vauxhall Mokka
@Ace point. simple.
This is vandalism. How is this not a crime?
It is a crime. Not easy to catch though because there isn't much evidence.
@@empirestate8791 fingerprints .
@Waka Waka Their faces are hidden though, and I doubt they'll use their real names when talking to the journalists.
It is a crime
It is a crime in Australia idk about the US tho
what if victims also take the law into their own hands and retaliate?
Based
That's why their are creeping around at night time. On the grand scale of things they don't care if someone's harmed in an emergency so maybe they should do it in front of the owner.
@@bigboi4269 Based?
You need to learn the difference between Law and law.
It would serve them right.
They're actually just adding to carbon emissions by doing this, refilling the tire will use electricity/fossil fuel to run the compressor and some of the victims will have to call for roadside service. So, their justification doesn't stand up. This is straight up vandalism.
Exactly what I said these people are so stupid
I wonder how these people would feel if they saw this video and witnessed this reporter just stand there and let them do it
It's called a deterrent.
Flat tire- Now the women can't drive to the abortion of clinic on time Oh policy...
it can harm or kills someone because they couldn't get to a hospital in time for their surgery, or get their insulin, or get their pregnant wife into labour etc.
If you witness someone do this, do a citizens arrest, and hold them until the police arrive. They are breaking the law. period
They are criminals. They need to be punished.
Hahahaa
@黃明 touch my fucking car and I will lower your CO2 emissions to zero... Instead of admitting CO2 you'll be meeting methane while you bloat
@黃明 what deflating tyres making them more fuel inefficient and requiring people to reinflate their tyres wasting time? Or the fact that they're damaging someones property? Why cant they just plant trees, pickup garbage or raise awareness by doing something not illegal for once.
@@briannam1082 understand sarcasm
@黃明 You are a fool.
"It's unclear if this is a crime" 🤯
Cars are private property. You can't damage somebody else's private property.
It's not damaging property though is it? Moving something owned by someone else in a public space has never been illegal.
It's not damage. But equally if you catch some potentially damaging your car, you could make a good case in court against a GBH charge.
There’s no damage
@@davedavids57 it's messing around with what's not yours. And that can warrant pretty unfriendly reactions if the owner spots you doing that
@@blacksmithsligo you can potentially make a case that you regard it as criminal damage and so make a citizens arrest. As such you can use reasonable force. Reasonable is proportionate to the damage caused. You could maybe hold the person etc. Basically common assault level, light to no bruising through holding. Grievous Bodily Harm though? That's above ABH. GBH is causing serious bodily harm that's not just bruises that's broken bones, deep heavily bleeding cuts, concussion etc. Even if you were detaining a cereal murderer that level of violence would be difficult to justify. But someone who just let you tires down? You would go to prison for five years plus.
This isn't activism! This is as childish as knocking on someone's door and running away. And it would help if they knew what they were doing but - Mokkas and hybrids ?? Just say the letters SUV and it sends shivers down the spines of climate activists and quite rightly but there are cars, not designated as SUV that are equally, if not more polluting! This is a display of faux concern. If they were serious, wouldn't they actually talk to the owners and put their case or demonstrate outside Westminster?
Gimmicky! Silly! Annoying and border-line criminally dangerous!
Stop it !
If SUVs were a country they'd be the 6th largest polluter. Wow!
If you believe that you'll believe anything.
the fact that they sneak around at night shows what cowards they are
that's just called efficiency
@@blueveins295 It's called being a complete moron
@@blueveins295 Yup, because during the day they would get their teeth smashed in lol
@@eba8938 And then they will play a way different tune for sure! No schrink in the world can achieve that with hours of talking sessions,
so the best therapy is just a good hard smack in the face, because that works instantly! It's like jesus who cures people at the spot!
Just 'touch" them and they will be healed! 🤣
No it's because they don't want to get caught Sherlock.
How to become a missing person that will never be found. This is one of them.
There's more than one of them. Are you advocating murder, by the way?
that's a bit of an exaggeration. all they're doing is letting air out of tyres. not something to get your knickers in a twist over.
@@33LB No one should have the right to even touch someone's property.....
@@Bond047 and yet, you have no problem with SUVs taking up all the space on the road, and obstructing the view of other drivers, and polluting the air which we all share. it's funny how you think respect for other people and their property only works in one direction, isn't it?
@@33LB well who the f*ck are you to say others what should others buy. It would be nice if some of them due by doing this. That would make me happy. I couldn't care less about the pollution. I have the money to buy an SUV so I'll buy. Wish that some of these f*ckers die doing this.
A friend of ours who keeps rare-breed and rescue chickens has to shift 200kg of feed across farm fields every week and absolutely needs a 4x4 to do this all year round. She has had her tyres deflated and shived several times (so they had to be replaced). The fools who do this presumably can't understand that some people have good reasons to have such vehicles.
my understanding is that they are only focusing on urban areas, where owning an SUV only serves to annoy and frustrate other road users.
@@33LB This is clearly not the case. In any case who is to say that someone living in an urban area does not, for example, have a pony for their children or some other hobby (sailing, rowing, caravaning etc) for which a heavy vehicle with towing capability or high load capacity is required? Are we all supposed to limit our interests and occupations to those that can be conducted with a bicycle? Should we all not be limited to walking?
@@ColinMill1 do you have any evidence that this group is acting against 4x4s in rural areas? because in their mission aim, they deliberately specify urban areas: "To make it impossible to own a huge polluting 4x4 in the world’s urban areas."
i think it's clear that very few people own SUVs to help with hobbies, given that very few people have ponies, or go sailing, caravanning etc. to begin with.
" Are we all supposed to limit our interests and occupations to those that can be conducted with a bicycle?"
you know there are cars that are not SUVs, right?
@@33LB I live in a rural area (and have a small-holding myself) and it is clear that this activity is now rife in this area.
As for the proliferation of SUVs over, say estate cars, for those needing a high capacity vehicle, have you not noticed that large estate cars are fairly thin on the ground? I personally use an old Subaru Outback estate car but the model was replaced with what is effectively an SUV in 2009.
If our friend has to give up her work with the chickens (which seems likely if this continues - the cost of the tyres is considerable) some rare breeds will be all the closer to extinction.
@@ColinMill1 car manufacturers introduce more SUV models because consumers are prepared to pay for them. if consumers send a clear message to manufacturers that they do not want SUVs, then SUVs would disappear in favour of estate cars and other smaller vehicles.
Screwing with peoples cars can be extremely hazardous to your health, get caught expect a good kicking.
I can't wait until they do this on the wrong guy
i hope they do, looking at their builds they wont be defending themselves very well.
Sure buddy
Ahh Mike calm down....its car tyre..then haven't harmed anyone!! funny how a car tyore can illicit such violent feelings...you might want to see a therapist about that !! :) it seems disproportionate to me :) have you got anger issues "
@@upendasana7857 ill come with a strimmer to their garden then shall I, afterall theyre only flowers and plants.
You don't need a SUV to carry three kids around. This is just a BS argument.
It's great to see people taking action when the government does not. I hope that SUV's won't be a thing in cities in the near future, so we can have safer streets and cleaner air
Why are you becoming terrorists, come on bro, instead of getting angry over a specific shape of a car go do something productive
@@N3s0_wastakenbased take
Lots of people here hoping that they get beat or killed for deflating tyres, shows who the radicals really are and why Humanity is doomed and why the Earth will continue to suffer from Capitalistic greed, climate change and global warming etc.
"Capitalistic greed" lol tell that to the 1 billion people taken out of extreme poverty in the last few decades thanks to capitalism. One of the millennium goals met early.
As for global warming, its happening but the extent to which we've had any influence is debatable.
The retards doing this are the same retards who said the next ice age would happen in the 80s
yes it just shows uo the mentality of those who have no care at all about the climate or what is happening to the planet and believe in their right to drive whatever car they like no matter what pollution it causes.
The selfishness of the individual who believes in their divine right to do what they please no matter the effects on others and community around them..including other pdestrians and rod users and people who suffer respiratory disease which is exacerabted by pollution
@@upendasana7857 thats not what people think. Thats what you think they think, but they dont.
Similarly why should people with health problems impact what I'm doing?
Offer yourself to have your property destroyed then.
So...they slash tires to do what? Make those people get an even bigger tow truck to pick up the SUVs? It would literally be less harmful to the earth to have them drive off.
They aren't slashed. They just have the pressure let out.
@@mineswah4363 a lot of these useful idiots make the personal choice to cut the valve stem or damage the tyre itself in a moment of what they like to believe is heroicism
Concealed carry is a perfect cure for this.
Letting out air from someone's tire is not justification for killing someone in most of the world and will get you put away for murder.
@@mineswah4363 This is not just letting air out of a tire. This is attempting to disrupt someone's life just because you don't like the car they drive. Mess up your job? Don't care because I'm an activist. Someone need to go to doctor or hospital? Doesn't matter because my delicate sensibilities have been offended. This whole activist trend of "I'll do everything I can to make your life difficult until you obey MY way of thinking and you better dare not do anything about it" is why good people hate them. As for murder, I'll take my chances. No trespassing signs combined with "I feared what harm they would do me" and living in a "stand your ground" state as well as a state that recognizes the "castle doctrine" make me pretty confident I will be just fine.
@@mineswah4363 don't mess with other peoples stuff then
@@TherealSBlair They people aren't going on private property to do this. These vehicles are on public property. Even if it was if these people are in your driveway, unarmed, and you just shoot them out of nowhere. A jury isn't gonna interpret that as self-defense in ANY state.
The whole idea is to inconvenience you. If your vehicle keeps having the air let out of it then maybe next time when you go buy a car you might think "Maybe I should just buy a normal car" otherwise you're gonna just have to deal with your tires being deflated. Hate us all you want. Get a smaller car or deal with the risk of your tires being deflated, or worse, it's easy as that.
They aren't doing it just because they don't like the car you're driving they're doing it because your choice of car is killing the planet.
@@mineswah4363 "maybe I should just buy a normal car"
so.. scrap your old car and pollute the environment more, go for a cheaper older car that'll have worse mpg and further pollute the environment and then all will be fixed?
How incredibly anti-social... driving an suv in a crowded city, I mean.
True, most people don’t need an suv. We are ok with a small Skoda and only use it when we have to.
I drive a city car, and have two kids. Does us just fine when we need to drive somewhere every now and again to somewhere with poor cycle/transit links.
Whats else is my mam meant to drive that isn't an SUV that can carry 7 people and tow a 3 ton trailer off road? Exactly.
Its really not
One of the cars they deflated was a Vauxhall Mokka, which is a crossover not an suv lol
Got em! Egg on their faces
They've deflated evs as well before, not the brightest bunch.
@@tvrtvr6984 If you actually studied the topic, you'd find that EVs are just as bad as petrol and diesel cars. An EV with 1-4 people in it clogs the roads just the same as a petrol car with 1-4 people in it, and makes cities and neighbourhoods just as unsafe.
@@nikomo .... and they wear tyres out quicker because they are heavier. It's all a big con.
But it is a vuaxhall, so...
I love the way how they not only vandalise traditional REAL SUV's but also the crossovers which most of are less fuel intensive than normal cars.
They still are far deadlier to passengers. I was hit by a car on a zebra crossing. Had it been a SUV I likely would not be here. Using a SUV on urban area should be considered attempted murder.
They would be greeted by a lovely knuckle sandwich if caught
I come out and find someone doing that their family would never find them again... And after a couple years they would have to go visit an empty grave..
Expose these criminals you cowards.
I'd say any neighborhood where this is happening it's time for some full-on beast mode midnight vigilant action 🤨🤨
Reporter was an accomplice to the crime. He should also be arrested.
Yes he should be behind bars
Please bring that to Dixie County Florida. We need target practice.
Thats not their property, shouldnt these simpletons be at work or better locked at Broadmoor.
Or better yet when caught nd convicted after a fair trail, I'd make these terrorists pay back the people they interfered with by making them pay them back by having them do chores and labor for the victims until they pay back to what they did to the victims. Also in doing this, make them wear electric collars and if they get out of hand, whip out a TV remote like device and administer an electric shock. Either that or put htem in a chain gang like we have in the old South here in the U.S.
I would offer a ride to the hospital to the vandal after I caught him tampering with my property but alas, there's no air in my tires. He/she will have to crawl there on their broken limbs.
He wouldn't need a hospital ride. I would lower his CO2 emissions to zero. Of course within a few hours his nitrogen levels would be spiking but.
@@traviskey7109
Good one
@@traviskey7109 Fortunately out here in the sticks shotguns are still allowed to protect property. It's a self solving situation.
I see you are all well adjusted members of society who can differentiate between loosening a valve and contributing to a climate crisis, you fucking genocidal maniacs
I'd let down the tyres on the ambulance while their still picking up his teeth
The fact that this media company does not condemn vandalism shows the dire direction our culture is heading.
They're achieving nothing beyond putting people off making a change.
You mean "making a change"
They weren’t going to do it any way
My question, are they checking each vehicles emissions before tampering with tyres?
Course not, that means they'd have to do more research 😂
Sure one they deflated was a hybrid
My question, are you checking each of your stupid emissions falling out of your mouth? These people sacrifice their free time, energy and maybe even freedom to save future generations..
The world will be turning with or without climate change, but we will fckin suffer
I know, right! I have a 5.4L V8 which produces the same C02 as a new-ish Ford Fiesta. I have the MOT paperwork to prove it. Quite incredible what German engineers can do now.
If they are huge they will always waste energy
Three toddles to nursery in an SUV? We used to be piled in the back of an original mini!
No wait, that was to go to see granny and gramps, we used to walk to school.
People still walk to school. It not the 60s. Safety is important now. Try fitting 3 child seats in the back of a mini
Children more easily killed by a SUV.
We have an obesity problem in this country.
@@shanecahill7623 It's not like a group of kids can't be taken to school by responsible adults taking it in turns on foot or by bike for older kids. We used to have a 45 minute walk to school at one point when I was a kid - not including the detour through the field where the bouncy trees were :D :D
Exactly. Also, my private school for basically not having children kill themselves is 10 miles away, the one in the corner have way too many plebs.
SUVs are more dangerous for pedestrians, other cars and tbh for those inside the car too and on top of that they are fuel inefficient, unpractical and take more space than a regular car. I don't support these behaviors but really SUVs are just dumb don't buy this trash.
1920s: WHITE POWER!!!!!!!! PERSECUTE THOSE DIFFERENT FROM US
2020s: GREEN POWER!!!!!!!! PERSECUTE THOSE LIVING DIFFERENTLY TO US
Are you a member of the Fantastic Four? That was a remarkable stretch..
Millions upon millions are certainly going to die with the current trajectory of global warming, so I can hardly blame these people for feeling like they just have to take some action.
nobody votes for the greens calm down these are just retarded activists that will stop what they're doing as soon as they get slapped around a few times for getting caught doing this
@@thetumans1394 How about REALITY... Being such a smart race... Humans... ARE SIMPLY OVERPOPULATING THE PLANET...
Back when??? Once we realized the World IS Round... The Allready Overpopulated World... Just keep making the same mistakes... It is called Greed... Seems to overpower Rational Thinking...
How can we help each other... NOT... How much can I get one over on you...
There is plenty for everyone... Yet... SOO MANY ARE SUFFERING...
THEN THERE'S THIS WAR... In case you haven't heard... RUSSIA IS KILLING AND DESTROYING Their Neighbors... Guess the old saying "A Good fence makes for Good Neighbors"... That Ukrainian Fence is not so good... Because RUSSIA is Not Being a Good Neighbor...
@@robertyoung2819 I have no idea what it is you're trying to articulate.
People have the right to choose what car they drive, some for economical reasons, other for environmental. I’m surprised that no-one has taken them to court over the criminal damage act of 1971, which protects individuals and their private property.
They're not slashing tires, they're just deflated, just put some air back in and drive away. Minimal damage.
@@gro_skunk sidewall gets damaged from sitting deflated for hours or days depending on situation of owner, sidewall wears faster during normal use as a result, tyre blows out on motorway, you lose control, probably die because you've spun out into oncoming traffic and maybe take out a young family in the process
@@JALC-x also worth mentioning if the tire is deflated enough it could potentially cause the bead to loosen making reinflation nearly impossible for many.
@@gro_skunk minimal damage = damage. Causing damage to other people's property intentionally is a bad thing.
Polluting sucks. It does. But this isn't the answer.
@@InsanitiesBrother if damage is damage, do you think the reaction would be the same if they were smashing windshields instead of just deflating tires? It's still damage.
What if they peeled off your bumper stickers and accidentally left a scratch?.
The point isn't the damage, it's supposed to be annoying and to give people perspective.
I'd like to point out to any bicycle activists engaging in this sort of behavior that if your bike is locked at a public bike rack, there is absolutely nothing stopping one of your victims from putting their own bike lock on your bike and walking away. Enjoy being late to work.
@@curtisducati Don't do that, I commute by bike. I wholeheartedly condemn the behavior of these "activists" in the video. But if someone goes around deflating car tires, just give those specific people a taste of their own medicine.
I'd remove the value stems and hide them from these bicycle people deflating tires.
@@ericschultz1073 They'd probably just escalate to slashing the tires, unfortunately. These people are a public menace that embarrass cyclists everywhere.
@@ronaldjenkins1194 yeah your probably right. The only thing is I don't think bicyclists commuters carry portable air pumps. But my idea would prevent the bicyclist from inkling their tire back up because there would be no valve to keep the air in. Oh and I'd take the dust caps because you can never have enough of those.
@@ronaldjenkins1194 they can't slash tires at their lungs don't push air anymore
Manufacturers are focusing more on SUVs now anyway as they provide better profit margins.
Give these punks a mandatory year in jail
I wish they would try this in Texas 😡
Criminal damage. A fully deflated tyre may damage the radials and cause catastrophic failure. Outrageous!
Planet warming is not interested if it is criminal damage, the message is clear adapt or suffer the consequences. The warning bells are ringing.
@@chrismckellar9350 The planet might not care but the police ought to. You either live in a nation of laws or you live in a state of anarchy where everyone feels entitled to take whatever action they feel is apt.
The only outrageous thing is that people think that their "personal lifestyle choices means they have a unnecessary heavily polluting vehicle is more important than the climate and planet we all share
@@chrismckellar9350 global warming is a myth
Ahh, the hyperbollock Oracle. First they state a crime where none exists and then they state a damage that would only exist if someone drove the vehicle with flats. Hyperbole isn't good for you old chap.
It's not a crime, it provokes crime though... I see someone messing with my car I would probably end up assaulting them.. 🤷♂️
How about we assault the people messing with my child's lungs?
Damn your a bad boy!
Roni Pickering
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Hard men and women always in the comments, sitting there in your SUV with a Costa in one hand and a phone in the other using your expanded waistline to turn the wheel. You couldn’t hurt a fly.
Then you go to prison for assault. You still lose moron😅
This is crazy. These people have a death wish.
you mean the people with those giant vehicles?
@@mariosphere So you condone criminal activity?
@@iluvmoney6767 Unfortunately, owning an SUV is still not a crime. But why should I condone this?
@@mariosphere Why should you? And why don't these cowards let the air out of these tires in full view of the owners during the day? Why is that???
@@iluvmoney6767 Because they are fighting against the fact that cars are getting bigger and taking up more space from people in the cities. what would you do if you wanted to save your city from pedestrians and cyclists, i.e. people, being increasingly marginalized by the gigantic cars?
"It's unclear whether this is a crime"
The bias is nauseating!
Mental asylums need to make a come back, big time. Such egos need mental health desperately.
Large heavy cars should require a permit as to who can own them and when and where they can be driven. They aren't fit for purpose for 99% of the population and have a detrimental effect on public health and public infrastructure.
If tennagers where causing these problems noone would bat an eye lid at people taking matters into their own hands.
Of course its mostly the car dealers fault for pushing suvs onto uneducated customers (no judgements here, ordinary people can't be expected to know about everything) and its the governments fault for letting them.
Makes me sick seeing people own them in the city. If you lived in rural North Queensland sure the roads are too dogshit for a 2wd
all gas vehicles are being transitioned to EVs around the world so I don't see the issue. Soon you won't even be able to buy gas vehicles, except for maybe small turbo engines
These people do not have anything better to do.
That's right they don't.
something tells me they dont
They should target corporations not individuals.
Easier said than done
Don't try it in Texas they have a surprise
If anyone slashes my tire for driving a hybrid SUV I will make sure I change my next vehicle to a lifted pickup with a smoke stack exhaust setup
Just buy one now.
This is just idiot. They have no right to vandalize other people property just because they dislike that property.
Well, on the flip side, if their vehicle is a hazard to life (locally and at a planetary scale), maybe other people have a right to self defence.
First, it's not vandalism. Secondly, if you're contributing to my child's asthma, I'd call it self defence. Maybe you need to get your priorities straight.
You have no right to ruin the lives of everyone that will ever exist for a vroom vroom
Usual bunch of witless twats. Ever done a day's work anyone?
Wouldn't this make Channel 4 accomplices?
No.
Absolutely. Filming criminals in the act of committing crimes, interviewing them and presumably withholding information from police. It's no secret that British media outlets have been mafia organizations for at least the past three centuries.
There are between 56,000 and 80,000 deaths from air pollution every year in the UK and around 10,000,000 world wide. The UK sees 1,000,000's of heart attacks, strokes, cancers and asthma attacks every year from air pollution so deflated tyres are hardly an inconvenience in the grand scheme of things.
We urgenlty need more affordable and reliable busses and safe cycle routes. We have around 30,000,000 cars and 40,000 buses in the UK with little change in the last 30 years while sales for petrol and diesel have hovered just under 50,000,000,000 litres per year with no change since 1989.
A ban on SUVs and any car over 1,300 cc is long overdue.
80,000 deaths is nothing for a country with a population of 80 million. So no banning stuff because it effects a percentage of the population so tiny you can basically say its 0% makes no sense.
Spend less on invading occupying and destroying countries and more on the people
@@zeeone4492 wheres the fun in that? But nah. Removing Sadam was a universal good. The reasons for invading Iraq were not.
Afghanistan was justified. Although NATO only stayed for 20 years to try and figure out a way to stop the backwards people that live in these countries from killing each other.
You know, to pull them into the 21st century and make them trading partners.
We tried, we failed, they went back to killing each others.
@@zeeone4492 Yes... That X(times)1000... + Plus...
Wish they had actually done their research, not knowing vehicle types or who you are targetting is pretty dumb !
Ever thought it might be biased media?
unimogs have a tyre pressure control system so you can pump them back up without getting out of the truck ,and the old ones will run on old engine oil instead of diesel
That's an old trick putting tiny stones in the valve caps to slowly let the tires down
Why can't they just leave the note? Is it a must to deflate the tires as well?
Because people will just crumple the notes chuck them away and ignore them. It means that maybe people will take into consideration the fact that they might wake up one day, late to a meeting to find no air in their tires. Might convince them not to buy an SUV.
@@mineswah4363 and you think letting air out of my tires is going to get me to fucking sympathize with you?
I really do hope I catch someone doing this to my vehicle. So I can really beat them to fucking death
@Commodore Cardinal But hopefully if they're late to work enough times they'll be fired and not be able to afford to keep the car or take the bus or bike instead
This rides a very fine line between environmental activism and environmental terrorism. It is picking up in Canada as well. They are just looking for a cause and justification to their pointless lives. There is SO MANY different ways to take positive action. This is not one of them.
sorry, "environmental terrorism"? what they're doing is fairly innocuous- all they're doing is letting air out of a few tyres for christ's sake. from your reaction, you would think they were killing people's first born children. although, i guess that some people love their ugly SUVs more than their first born children.
The first one to do that to my vehicle will be the last one to do it.
@@schrempskynate8944 internet tough guy.
@@33LB Try me
@@schrempskynate8944 can you teach me how to be as tough and cool as you?
Not only did this poor excuse for a news station aid in the comission of a crime, they appeared to endorse the criminals and even waited around to try to shame the victims in the morning.
"It's unclear if this is a crime"
Ofcourse it's a crime!
What if the person owning the car misses an important job oppurtunity or heaven forbid needs to get to the hospital.
To get somebody to drive over there to get the tires reinfalated is not that good for the climate either.
They are not helping the climate at all!
Not to mention tyre blowout risk
most tyres are filled with nitrogen not regular compressed air, according to the netherlands goverment they want to reduce the nitrogen going into the air,
Heaven forbid he misses a job opportunity so that the human race can survive.
@@pipster1891 they need a good kicking, end of.
@@messylaura water vapour is the biggest greenhouse gas leading to the warming of the planet. Good luck stopping natural cycles. These people are beyond nuts.
The average household is not to blame for the global climate crisis, it's not their fault they can't afford an electric SUV to do whatever logistics/leisure/work they need it for. The root cause are extremely wealthy people, oil executives, governments who have funded opposition to every movement for change, for decades, the blood is on their hands..
..and they're laughing at these assholes deflating tyres and fueling their fire. This stupidity achieves the exact opposite of their intentions.
I think you're correct. We have to understand this sort of activism as a reaction to the desolation brought out by late capitalism. It is an unsophisticated form of resistance in that it does not properly work towards the mass movement of the working class, the only real way out of the situation.
Everyone can do their bit and if you're driving an offroad vehicle that you will never take offroad in your life then you are not doing your bit.
@@krashd Ah I see, so you're only allowed to pollute the planet if you drive certain vehicles off road now and then..
..your point is, ahem, adorable, however it perfectly demonstrates how you've fallen yourself for the oil shareholder's attempt to divide regular people; over an issue that's completely to do with their own greed and planet-destroying business model.
That aside, you'd be pissed if someone vandalised your own property over a vague, baseless, accusation.
Who says they are not fighting them aswell? Do you know? Are you going to every workers day or FFF march or whatever? Do your part instead of defaming others who actually do something.
I would love to see what happens if someone catches them.
England is so polite that even if people caught them deflating the tyres it would turn into a conversation about the looming climate catastrophe .... the activists hope so anyway lol.
@@MoebiusUK Beatdowns incoming.
they would end up dead
In the states they would be shot!
So much 'ard in the comments. You'd cack bricks.
"What gives you the right to take the law into your own hands?" What law?? Stupid question.
freedom..... the basic right to freedom, over rules any and all laws.
what makes your fictional beliefs more valid than any one elses?
your right though... it was a stupid question
@@ZOMBIEHEADSHOTKILLER You're*
@@JoelJoel321 yeah, i didnt think your reply would have any valid contribution to the conversation.... youll figure it out some day, go get em champ.
@ch01 the law should allow you to execute these ‘eco activists’
@@anonomous8719 you can execute, but you finish your life on the bars too. You'll regret later, violence has to be always punishable by law. Go kill Russian on Ukraine if you don't get caught to flush your anger
If they really cared they would be popping the dinghies migrants use as those beaten up 2 strokes cause more CO2 than any car, not to mention the hotel fires they cause.
Citation?
The funny thing is that most new SUVs have better fuel economy than my mid sized sedan
How they weigh more than a new mid sized sedan?
@@MrWhitmen1981 hybrid technology, development of more efficient diesel engines, lower displacement with the use of turbocharging to create more torque moving a heavier vehicle easier, development of lighter materials, development of more efficient tyres to reduce energy lost to heat / friction, advanced ECU programming + AI to manage engine load and 4wd as to not waste energy on every wheel when unnecessary
Agreed. My mother's four cylinder SUV is more efficent than my mid sized V6 sedan.
How old is it?
@@pipster1891 14
Good on them. SUVs should not be on the roads, they're too big and too polluting. And they're owned by genuine dickheads.
SUVs and 4x4s should be banned by 2030 if they emmit
Completely true.
Source?
Whats else is my mam meant to drive that isn't an SUV that can carry 7 people and tow a 3 ton trailer off road? Exactly.
@@rtvgr
Have you seen Britain?
When you leave tires deflated you can damage the steel belting in the sidewalls making them extremely dangerous. You can also damage the rims aswell.
People won't be tossing out their cars but you are however forcing them to possibly replace expensive tires and rims when those people probably can't afford to do so at the drop of a hat.
If you own an SUV you can afford $2000 tyres like it's nothing. Well, you should anyway, otherwise you're living beyond your means.
@@F3udF1st $2k on a set of tires just so you can do it to me again next week?
People like you are a cancer on society that needs to be removed.
Just because I have the money doesn't mean you have the right to destroy my property. And the fact that you think it's OK makes you a bad person.
@@F3udF1st hope you can afford a casket.
If this happens constantly enough, people will at least reconsider their next purchase of one though.
@Karl Snarks actually no it won't. It will however result in my installing of a silent alarm. Making it easier to sneak up on you before I break your legs for touching my car.
No law... pretty sure it’s vandalism. Or even sabotaging a vehicles safety that could lead to a death... so murder. ( yes I know that’s extreme, but a prosecutor could argue that point.)
Where'd you get your law degree from, genius?
How would you drive it, though, without knowing?
lame. if you want to help eat 1 meal a day, and stop industrial farming.
So the news just sits back and watches it happen . as a suv driver . this causes me anxiety . maybe i should call the cops on the news for posting this without condemning such actions
As a non-SUV driver, YOU cause ME anxiety.
@@pipster1891 nuh uh! I got here first ! Your anxiety is causing me more anxiety 😐 im gonna pop!
I find the best thing for anxiety is a nice long drive in my SUV!
I mean, it's not something I would do, but I can see why they are feeling so desperate. The government clearly doesn't give a sh*t about the climate. People have a right to self-defence and dirty against dangerous cars, even if the government won't legislate to protect t them. They shouldn't be socially acceptable.
Property rights don't trump rights to clean air, safe roads and a liveable climate.
Its the poor who die from air pollution, not the rich. That's why the tories don't care
The UK government is one of the few governments making the green transition. Norway, Germany, and France are as well. But most countries aren't. We want green growth, not deep economic reccession that lasts for years and years.
cars are not dangerous and no you dont have a right to clean anything outside of your own space. If someone makes you space dirty then you have a point. Outside of that though nah you dont get to dictate what anyone else should do
@@JW-YT
Cars are not dangerous? Are you thick?
@@GrayDogNowIDK they're not if you drive them safely. Been driving 30 years not had a single issue or accident.
Cars are inanimate objects, are you thick?
I don't necessarily agree with their actions, but they are certainly right on SUV's. Larger than necessary, pollute more than necessary, and dangerous for both the occupants and anyone they involve in a collision with them. Why does anyone in Clifton need an SUV?! There's no real reason, no one is commuting through the Sahara desert, nor rock crawling over the Andes, nor are they carrying sheep or cargo in sufficient quantity to justify the volume of the car.
some people need to tow trailers, have special needs kids, maybe regularly carry large cargo etc
@@jcdentonunatco I get that, but I assure you that the majority will not. I imagine 15% of SUV"s are used properly, the remaining 85% could be replaced by MPV,s saloons, estates etc. without impacting the persons life whatsoever. Whatsmore, a good deal of Clifton SUV's are £80k machines, they're statements of wealth rather than utilitarian vehicles.
These people are vegan echo warriors . They don't have any real responsibilities to keep them occupied . Typical of channel four to give these snow flakes air time . The police should have been called . Well what do we expect from the guardian newspaper on the TV .
Please do this in texas, I dare you
I also have a SUV don't forget mine fair warning mine comes with two free bullets in the chest.
Electric SUVs are still a big waste. Plus lot's of hybrids prioritise the petrol engine (though not all).
You can get a kind of bike-car to carry larger objects such as children, etc.
Crazy. What if there's an emergency, someone having to be taken to hospital quickly? Dangerous sabotage, put those criminals in jail.
If people would stop voting Tory and maybe show a bit of compassion for their fellow man, we may actually have enough paramedics to staff ambulances to come save the day. Perhaps it's Karma...
Correct sabotage... and no one would stand there watching ppl sabotage their ride without doing anything ...
@@roni2977 their 'ride' 🤣 ok 'G'.
Put you in jail.
If there is an emergency, try doing the sensible thing and calling an ambulance.
While I agree with most activism, they could stop someone in an emergency situation, rushing someone to hospital.
Death by tampering will be a thing somewhere.
According to them they don't care as billions will die. I would like to see them explain it to a heart attack victim
Planet warming is not interested if it an emergency, the message is clear adapt or suffer the consequences. The warning bells are ringing.
@@chrismckellar9350 No excuse for interfering with an emergency. There are ways to get your voice heard without hurting people, especially when you claim to be doing it to save people.
@@DennisMcCoy-b2r As you should know as a Doctor wouldn't it be much much better in Central Bristol to call for an Ambulance if you suspect someone is having a heart attack? Ambulances all have defibrillators and know exactly the correct hospital to take the patient.
@@DennisMcCoy-b2r - The medical specialist bought a SUV knowing that the vehicle has a higher emissions compared to other more fuel efficient vehicles. Planet warming is going to hurt alot more humans if we doesn't start adapting our lifestyles to a warming planet which is warming every second of every day and night. The warning bells are already ringing like the current heat waves that is being experienced in Europe on the Northern Hemisphere summer.
SUV s should be banned unless you need it for off road work, the knobs drive them posing thinking they are cool and their not just ignorant .But this carry on is a dangerous one, they would be far better off spraying expanding foam into the exhaust pipe at least then by morning the suv will not go to far if at all.
What a dumb thing to say, a compact car like polo GTI emits more CO2 than a Toyota rav4 hybrid. Its not the size of the car it's the power train
@ch01 - I see a lot of envy, I wonder why? 🤔
@@RMSF1 I would say you drive an suv .A GTI polo get a grip wake up.
@@kevinmalone9673 I don't have an suv and you don't seem to know much about cars. A Nissan micra from 2007 produces more co2 than a new Honda HRV or a Toyota Rav4 but these so called activists are clueless like many even though they can search it on Google they still choose to be dumb
Most SUVs are no more polluting than any other car. The people vandalizing private property are going to end up getting seriously hurt.
SUVs are honestly a dangerous thing and for many whom say that "Its up to the driver" then think about how heavy and high the SUVs are, how good is your visibility and brakes?
The environment is not the thing I concern myself with but the dumb reason of getting and making these cars
One car was a small hatchback, so any car basically
I bet they will also do it to EVs too, and put their shitty little Gas Guzzler leaflet on the windscreen, because that's how retarded they are. Id rip the leaflet up in the faces
They target SUVs. They're not that stupid. Question the reporter.
@@pipster1891 They are stupid. Environmentalists are invariably stupid. None of them have an education in Environmental science.
@@pipster1891 they are stupider that you think.
Oh perfect solution, that way when someone discovers their tires are flat they call a tow truck which has a large gas-guzzling engine which pollutes the environment even further. This group has no logic whatsoever.
“It’s unclear whether this is a crime”
Fucking with people’s cars by making them a hazard to drive and possibly ending up in an accident is a crime!
the 300 blackout in my closet:
How is this not a crime
It is. The weight of the car will damage the sidewall of the tyre requiring replacement. It's criminal damage.
@@jameswlong bullshit
@Gill Munchen grow up
You are saying driving SUV's should be illegal?
@@jameswlong Been looking for this Comment... YES... This can Damage/Bruise the tire... Which... When on a longer trip... This will cause tires to Seperate Possibly loosing the Tread at Highway Speeds (even at slow speeds)... You Do Not Want this too Occure... SO... WHEN THIS HAPPENS... WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LIVES THAT COULD BE EFFECTED FROM THIS CARELESS ACT OF TERRORISM/VANDALISM... WHAT IS YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS... REALLY... DO YOU... Believe that this is a Victomless CRIME...
DOH!!!
I mean, I get why they're doing it. These posh toffs who drive around in massive gas guzzlers because their driveway sometimes has leaves on it, need to get a reality check and to start acting responsibly. However, I saw them taking the air out the tyres of atleast one hybrid, they need to be very particular about what cars they do it to or they'll alienate everyone
Blinkered view that... "posh toffs" one of the guys in the video has a Renault Captur, he's a posh toff is he? I mean its just a spacious Megane for all intents and purposes.
Most people that drive SUV's are not posh toffs. They just have a lot of debt, like many people, and are trying to push on through their own worries. Just like you and me. We are not each others enemy, we are being divided. and Channel 4 news is one of the chef tools in that division.
A non-suv hybrid will emit less co2. It’s not complicated. Ev suvs are silly as well.
@@SandyRitchie spacious Clio, the Megane equivalent is the Kadjar
@@ravagerslb You get it at least. 👍The minute anyone mentions SUV the nuts automatically assume its an Escalade or a Range Rover sport. Not a same footprint as a regular hatchback.
The drop in emissions from traditional cars is impacted by people buying SUVs instead. I would like to see a more detailed analysis as to what degree.
Who cares. Nothing justifies these rats
Sure, how can it be that massively bigger cars have a bigger impact? Doesn't make sense, does it?
@@pipster1891 Bigger cars do not necessitate greater emissions. I really wish you extremists would seems an education.
Electric SUV owners and people with portable air pumps, locking tire valve covers, or spare tires:
*I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you*
Where do you get locking valve covers?
Why can’t they leave people alone? Meanwhile politicians are not harassed.
I knew those clowns would do the same to a Hybrid SUV..... Absolute muppets
Bristol does attract some strange creatures
I suspect if they had a job they would be in bed for work in the morning
not out at 2am letting down tyres
but there aren't any jobs, so...
Cars before planet, eh, bob?
@@pipster1891 vandalism before common sense eh?
The people doing it can’t earn the price of a tyre
SUVs are generally unnecessary for most urban dwellers and are a personal choice.
If someone chooses a more polluting and statistically more dangerous vehicle over a less polluting, safer option, why is that?
It's about "keeping up with the Joneses". They see their neighbour getting one, so they need one too. SUVs spout this active/healthy lifestyle, where you can go off on an adventure into the wild. Ironically, most SUVs are completely useless off-road. Instead they clog up urban areas unnecessarily. If you're after interior space in a vehicle, what is wrong with station wagon.
modern SUVs dont have worse emissions then smaller cars they often use the same engines.
Idiots
@@tvrtvr6984 which one is heavier and therefore less efficient and more polluting? It's not the small car.
@@thecraigmachine69 aye, they are a triumph of motor industry marketing.
In fairness some are good off road....but they are not used there...and they need lovely, grippy (inefficient on the road) tyres to be really good off road. But Jasmine from Wimbledon dgaf about any of that anyway and why would she...except petrol prices have gone up exponentially...blah blah I could go on
It’s crazy to me that these British SUVs are actually smaller than most SUVs here in the states
Hope this people go to jail for a long time.
At least they are putting the valve caps back on.