"Fag Bug" vandal victim plans road trip
#1"Fag Bug" vandal victim plans road trip
Posted: 5/2/07 at 11:29pm
Out New York graduate student Erin Davies, whose Volkswagen Beetle was spray-painted with hate slogans on the Day of Silence, April 18, plans to drive the vandalized "Fag Bug" on a cross-country tour for tolerance.
Davies, who came out as a lesbian 12 years ago, got many messages of support after the hate vandalism in Albany, N.Y., which she figures was triggered by a rainbow sticker on the car.
At first, Davies said, she was mortified. She reported the crime to Albany police, who are investigating but say they have heard of no similar incidents. An insurance-company claims adjuster -- one of many people who advised her to remove the slurs from the car -- said doing so would cost $350.
"But even as I drove through my neighborhood in the rental car, I was stopped by friends and acquaintances and asked what I planned to do next," she told the Troy Record newspaper.
Her answer: "I'm gonna rainbow my whole car out!" Davies, 29, an arts education student at Russell Sage College, told Gay.com.
She decided to keep the slurs on the car to raise awareness. When people see it around town, she writes on her site, FagBug.com, they often leave letters of support on the dash.
http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?date=2007/05/01/2&navpath=/channels/pride/
#2re: 'Fag Bug' vandal victim plans road trip
Posted: 5/3/07 at 3:03amGood for her! What a terrible awful thing to have happen to you. I have had my VW beetle vandalized 3 times (thankfully nothing permanent), but I can hardly imagine coming out to my car and seeing it covered in spraypainted hatred. I wish her the best of luck.
#2re: 'Fag Bug' vandal victim plans road trip
Posted: 5/3/07 at 7:23amway to turn a negative into a positive. Good for her!
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#3re: 'Fag Bug' vandal victim plans road trip
Posted: 5/3/07 at 8:13amI myself don't like that word. To me, it's a slang. Homosexual is more appropiate. IMO using the 'F' word is like using the 'N' word for blacks.
#4re: 'Fag Bug' vandal victim plans road trip
Posted: 5/3/07 at 8:58amShe's a trooper. What a gal!
#5re: 'Fag Bug' vandal victim plans road trip
Posted: 5/5/07 at 8:05amSuzy, what did they do to your car, and did you have any stickers?
#6re: 'Fag Bug' vandal victim plans road trip
Posted: 5/5/07 at 7:53pmThe three times were totally unrelated and unprovoked (I'm just lucky I guess!). I had the VW embelm pried off my hood & stolen, my gas cap stolen (I had to keep my gas flap unlocked since the latch was broken and if you shut it it would stay locked), and my hood was written on in permanent marker (illegible). Nope, I don't have any stickers on my car. I filed a police report for the writing, but nothing came of it.
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#8re: 'Fag Bug' vandal victim plans road trip
Posted: 5/5/07 at 7:59pmDid the vandals know how to write legible English or is that of some language I am not familiar with?
#9re: 'Fag Bug' vandal victim plans road trip
Posted: 5/5/07 at 9:31pmI thnk that says, "Happy Birthday"...
#10re: 'Fag Bug' vandal victim plans road trip
Posted: 5/5/07 at 9:55pmYeah, that's what I thought at first, but it I later found out that my friend had had someone write on thier house (weird, I know), so I went to see that & it was the same handwriting. On the house it said "unorthodox method." We never did figure out what that meant.
#11re: 'Fag Bug' vandal victim plans road trip
Posted: 5/5/07 at 10:07pmI keep telling these people that penmanship counts.
#12re: 'Fag Bug' vandal victim plans road trip
Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:29am
a courageous girl.
Larry King should have her on instead of Dr. Phil for the 900th time.
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