"Fag Bug" vandal victim plans road trip

[muscle23ftl]

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/

[suzycat]

Posted: 5/3/07 at 3:03am

Good 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.

[tazber]

Posted: 5/3/07 at 7:23am

way to turn a negative into a positive. Good for her!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/3/07 at 8:13am

I 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.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/3/07 at 8:58am

She's a trooper. What a gal!

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/5/07 at 8:05am

Suzy, what did they do to your car, and did you have any stickers?

[suzycat]

Posted: 5/5/07 at 7:53pm

The 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.

[suzycat]

Posted: 5/5/07 at 7:54pm

[C is for Company]

Posted: 5/5/07 at 7:59pm

Did the vandals know how to write legible English or is that of some language I am not familiar with?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/5/07 at 9:31pm

I thnk that says, "Happy Birthday"...

[suzycat]

Posted: 5/5/07 at 9:55pm

Yeah, 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.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/5/07 at 10:07pm

I keep telling these people that penmanship counts.

[fflagg]

Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:29am

a courageous girl.

Larry King should have her on instead of Dr. Phil for the 900th time.