Attack on inflatable Easter Bunny might be a hate crime

Isabel Gonzalez feels targeted and wondering whether her ethnicity or her religion is the reason for the vandalism. An inflatable snowman in her yard was slashed from top to bottom at Christmas time, she says, and last summer her decorative reflective glass ornaments were stolen from the garden outside her front door. (Lohud.com)

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[LimeGreenLizard]

I confess.

[LimeGreenLizard]

I know RMM hates huge inflatable bunnies, so I slashed it for additional penance to her.

[MONKEY JERK]

MAYBE IT IS JUST HER PERSONALITY

[cherie]

Maybe she needs to live in a better neighborhood?

[troschne]

Did anyone read any of the comments from the article? MAN, do some of those people need a trip back to Remedial English!

[Phranqlin]

The comments on this article are amusing, particularly the semi-illiterate tool who apologizes for his part in the affair.

[lynn]

they slashed her snowman, her bunny and stole her yard ornaments.

maybe they just don't like tacky outside decorations.

i wonder if she has lots of little pink flamingoes too.

[Kee]

Lynn, she doesn't have the pink flamingoes anymore. I stole them about a year ago and stashed them with the village of gnomes I stole from her before that.

[RockyMtnMac]

*..shiver..* They're just so scary. Thanks for taking out the bad bunny Lizard!
You're off the hook now.

[lynn]

good going, kee!!!!

now if you can steal those silly little jockey things--

[KC]

Now her eyes with hot tears are all runny,
Because someone has damaged her bunny,
And some other outdoor
Things were stolen before.
They might be only pranks, but...not funny!

[Anna]

It is a Hate Crime....
Against those ugly inflatable yard ornaments!
Ugly & tacky as all "heck'!!
I'll bet Miss Manners does NOT have any in her yard!

[G-Man]

It's not a hate crime, the guy probably thinks he's Elmer Fudd.... Shhhhh! Be Vewy, Vewy Qwiet. I'm hunting Wabbit.

[sometimesilie]

Here we go again. Anna, you called it!

[c&c]

Kill the Wabbit, Kill -the- Wabbit ... (It's Wabbot,Season)

[RockyMtnMac]

To be honest with all of you, I hate (HATE) those inflatable snow globes most of all. Add penguins and it becomes THE Michaelangelo of CRAP. The Easter bunnies are a close second.

And stop picking on gnomes. I happen to have one in my garden. I really do. But he is hidden like gnomes are SUPPOSED to be. And he is not f-cking inflatable. Gnomes in the garden are good luck.
They may even ward off Zombies.

[G-Man]

RMM - I have an inflatable Christmas Spongebob and I don't even celbrate Christmas. Is that okay?

[USMerc]

Ok...The salt thing, I'll consider, but gnomes???? Really RMM....GNOMES????? I'm sorry, I have to draw the line at gnomes...Unless you bash one off a zombies head, I can't see gnomes warding off zombies...

[RockyMtnMac]

Yes G-Man, that is OK.
Only because Spongebob is cool enough to overcome the inflatable thing.

[A.V.]

RMM,
spongebob overcums a lot when he sees something inflatabe.

[A.V.]

Maybe the bunny didn't have a green card.

[USMerc]

RMM--You have mail...

[RockyMtnMac]

Merc-you have a reply

A.V. - Why are you hating on Spongebob? You are sick my friend. Spongebob is the cutest, most benign icon we have in this ...
...oh to hell with it. He gets on my nerves too.

[dowserdave]

Well, let me just say that I, for one, am completely outraged. I bet this sort of blatant, racist, nationalistic prejudice would never happen to her in her native home of Ecuador. Perhaps she would like to return there and leave the United States behind for good. She could just write off this whole stay in the U.S. as a failed experiment.

[LimeGreenLizard]

Or she could have some mango salsa and find inner peace.

[Kee]

RMM, one gnome can be overlooked, especially since we like you. A village of identical Wal-mart gnomes is not so good. It's definitely on the same level as all this inflatable cr@p.

BTW, in Phoenix people put the inflatable stuff on their roofs to avoid vandals. It works so well there are some houses with two or three inflatables on their roofs. It's --- what's a good word for tacky on steroids?

[outofsalt]

Oh, man! What's next: an attack on some guy's inflatable doll being called assault...or, goodness forfend, rape?

Yeah, I don't much care for the inflatable lawn decorations myself. Still, just get the perp for willful destruction of property, or whatever it's called in legalese. "Hate crime" is ridiculous.

[RockyMtnMac]

LOL Kee! Only ONE Gnome I promise! An entire village of identical gnomes? Treat as zombies by all means.

[troschne]

If you look very closely, you'll see that it's really Ralphie, holding the costume his Aunt Clara made him for Christmas, not Isabel Gonzalez. He was photographed later shooting his BB gun, right before he broke his glasses.

[Soo]

I am usually an anything-goes kind of person. My *ideal* outdoor christmas decor includes a nativity scene in which The Madonna is Madonna, Joseph is Dane Cook or Carrot Top, Jesus is Stewie, and the three wise men are either a mariachi band, ninjas, or pirates.

Do I put that up? No. I'd rather not offend anyone with my bizarre sense of humor and decency.

And yet year after year, my neighbors offend my sense of decency by putting up more and more of those m-f'g inflatables. I mean, holy crap, people. Can you get any lazier? Use the brain you were given and think up your own freakin' decorations. Lazy m-f'ers.

/can you feel the hate?

[troschne]

Soo--I prefer a simple wreath on the door, and if I get really energetic, I wrap garland around the pillars. Otherwise, I don't get into the lighting of the yard like the Griswolds, filling my yard with tacky inflatables, and DEFINITELY don't hang lights. Otherwise, they have to be taken down when it's cold, and that's not how I roll.

[lynn]

LOL @ troschne---i hate that movie!

one gnome will be allowed and it must be hidden, they are shy garden folks and do not like the limelight. all gnomes believe the one for that travel ad is really on drugs or drink.

and they do keep away zombies....

[troschne]

LYNN--you wound me! I love that movie--it's a classic! I actually saw it when it was in the theatre, at the recommendation of my Advanced Senior English teacher (who ROCKS, BTW--we still keep in touch).

Maybe a couple of years of not watching it on TBS, when it has the 24-hour marathon might change your mind!

[RockyMtnMac]

OK, I HAVE to weigh in on this.
Second greatest holiday movie EVER! It took great restraint for me to not tell Troschne he could put an eye out with that thing. And someday, I'm getting a leg lamp. (Christmas Vacation is still my all time favorite)

[lynn]

maybe,that would help troschne. it got to the point, i loved the part when he gets chuted by the santa and elf.

"fragile" still cracks me though.

i have been wanting to watch some old hitchcock movies, tucked under the blanket and eat pizza like i did when i was a kid...i need a television tho'/

[troschne]

lynn, I'll trade you a TV for some grits!

RMM--trust me--I've almost put my eye out with that thing several times! LMFAO! P.S. I know where you can get a leg lamp--I want one, too, and have been looking around.

[lynn]

Done deal troschne. i have been jonesing for my CSI and Law&Order shows...ba dumdumdum.

also, i miss my lord of the rings marathons where i watch all 3 back to back

[sohbet]

Well, let me just say that I, for one, am completely outraged. I bet this sort of blatant, racist, nationalistic prejudice would never happen to her in her native home of Ecuador. Perhaps she would like to return there and leave the United States behind for good. She could just write off this whole stay in the U.S. as a failed experiment.

no you false earning requisition ;)

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