Lobster firm fleet vandalized (FBI called in)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 2-4-2003 | Virginia Groark and Jon Yates

[Cagey]

Lines to brakes and refrigeration systems on a fleet of Villa Park seafood company trucks were cut over the weekend, damage the FBI is investigating as the act of a radical animal rights group opposed to the killing of sea creatures.

Vandals entered an unsecured lot on the 200 block of North Avenue and cut the lines on dozens of Supreme Lobster and Seafood Co. trucks. They also wrote "ALF--No Brakes" on a bay door of a company building.

Investigators believe ALF stands for the Animal Liberation Front, a loose group of animal rights activists whom the FBI considers active domestic terrorists. According to an anonymous e-mail sent to the Tribune, members also called themselves the "Groundhog Crew" because they claimed to have damaged the trucks early Sunday, which was Groundhog Day.

In the e-mail titled "ALF Communique," the group alleged the Midwest's largest lobster distributor was responsible for the deaths of more than 1 billion sea creatures over the last 25 years.

[Cagey]

There's a poll on the source page asking:.....

Do you sympathize with animal rights activists?

[pubmom]

No, I have no sympathy for those criminals. When the little weasels are caught, they need to make full restitution for the damages they caused.

[bigfootbob]

"When the little weasels are caught, they need to make full restitution for the damages they caused.

They need to spend ten years in prison. This activity is very dangerous and a slap on the wrist isn't sufficient.

The ALF ba$t@rds simulatneously firebombed an agriculture lab at the University of Washington and a test farm several years ago destroying millions of dollars worth of property and ruined 10 years of research of a colleague of mine. They pooh-poohed the crime. 6 months later the freaks, (this time the SHAC group) showed up in town and smoke bombed a downtown Seattle building. They weren't caught either.

I'd send them to Guantanamo Bay Cuba with the Afghanistan thugs.

[jimt]

There's only 500 some odd replies to the poll. Excellent opportunity to FReep.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Animal rights
Do you sympathize with animal rights activists?
16.5% Yes (125 responses)
80.9% No (613 responses)
2.6% Undecided (20 responses)
758 total responses
(Poll results not scientific)

[Britton J Wingfield]

Cutting brake lines is attempted murder. At least I hope it is treated as such.

[M_TEN_FORTYFIVE]

If they were caught, I'd favor the three S solution:

Shoot

Shovel

Shut Up