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Out to change the world, one bumper sticker at a time.(Brief Article)
Vandalism, civil disobedience, or just darn funny? All of the above?
San Franciscans Robert Lind and Charles Dines have launched an assault on monster sport/utility vehicles. Not a deadly assault, it's almost polite and usually non-confrontational-certainly less politically active than the Sierra Club's campaign. The pair sneaks up on the resting behemoths in parking lots and on urban streets and quietly slaps on a bumper sticker that reads, ``I'm Changing the Climate! Ask Me How!''
Yes, it has come to this.
``It started out as a personal act of vengeance,'' says Lind. ``I was sick of super-polluting gas guzzlers so we came up with this just because I wanted to get back at 'em.''
Lind figures he's applied 1200 bumper stickers in the past year and like-minded followers have applied thousands more to unsuspecting, privately owned Excursions, Expeditions and Suburbans. They are gathering
followers. Cells are springing up all across the country, sending in reports of successful sticker placements to the pair's website, www.changingtheclimate. com.
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