Each
Earth Day since 2000, the
Wompedy Club has gone to suburban malls and played meter maid,
ticketing SUVs with our
own variety of Violation Notices based on the ones promoted
by Adbusters and StayFree
magazines.
Our tickets were like the adbusters ticket, but on the back
invited recipients to visit our autocide website (made for
this same project) so that they could find out how to "wave"
the $17,000 fine they'd received.
The autocide site is still up, and each Earth Day you'll
notice the front page of wompedy.com switches to a "Did
you receive one of these?" splash page, which directs
SUV owners to the proper place more directly.
Our Autocide site was designed by Wompedy Club member James
Marzano, and written by Daniel Dunnam. The information is
largely from the books "Asphalt
Nation" by Jane Holtz Kay and "The
Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration"
by Ray Suarez. Two books that are worth reading regardless
of whether or not you drive an SUV.
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