Save and Conserve

In early June, I blogged about how someone at my office was driving a new Hummer to work. At the end of the post, I wrote the following:

I have a prediction. Those middle fingers won't be proudly displayed much longer. There will come a point in the not-too-distant future when driving an H2 will be embarrasing. H2 owners will have the option of spending an afternoon in the stockade or wearing a beige sweater with a massive yellow "H2" nylon patch sewed onto it, Hester Prynne style.

Turns out I wasn't too far off in that prediction. A Washington Post article today tells us about 32 year old Washington DC resident Garreth Groves and his new gray Hummer:

It [the Hummer] lasted five days on the street before two masked men took a bat to every window, a knife to each 38-inch tire and scratched into the body: "FOR THE ENVIRON."

Anti-Hummer vigilantes? Interesting ... Expect to see more of this stuff going forward.

Also, the reason Mr. Groves was inspired to purchase his now vandalized gas guzzler?

Groves, who grew up in the District and works in marketing for a local radio station, said he wanted the car in part because he is starting a company, Washington Sports Marketing, that is "image-based."

"Image-based". Puke.