Picture: Disturbing flyer distributed to Newtown letterboxes in early December 2009.In the wake of anti-immigration propaganda late last year, Newtown is now in the grips of a wave of hate crime.
Presumably upset at the failure of the federal Emissions Trading Scheme legislation and inability of nations to agree to a binding target at the recent Copenhagen climate summit, hoodlums have taken to the streets of Sydney's latte belt and are taking matters into their own hands.
Urban 4WD and SUV owners have been waking the morning to find their vehicles have been keyed, covered in graffiti or even attacked with blunt instruments, causing thousands of dollars in damage.
A lefty environmentalist conspiracy to drive up insurance premiums and thus make large inefficient car ownership prohibitively expensive has not been ruled out.
However police are urging calm and have released a statement assuring Inner West large car owners that they are not being targeted and that vandalism rates remained unchanged across all classes of vehicle.
Tests have revealed that the potatoes found in the exhaust pipes of the vandalised gas-guzzlers are organic, but investigators claim that this is not significant given the demographics of the area.
Investigations are continuing. In the meantime, police advise car owners to be vigilant and report any suspicious activity.
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