How obsessed is too obsessed?

[Rosko]

I know we're all a bit obsessed with our vans but I was flicking through last month's Volksworld and I reckon somebody went a bit far. Bob Shaill comments on a photo of a student protest in Brazil in the '70s.

A hairy youth can be seen kicking in the roof of an overturned Police van, fair enough given that the dictatorship in Brazil at the time was so undemocratic that they even imprisoned and exiled musicians who were critical of government policies. Bob notes that the van was a 1964 split which had most of its panels kicked in and windows smashed and finishes with," I'm sorry to say that it was later set on fiire and totally destroyed".

Obviously it would be better if the police forces doing the dirty work for the dictators of the world drove crappy vans but surely, in these extreme circumstances, battering VWs is acceptable and can even be applauded.

 

[dubberdaz]

Perhaps Bob did not have all the facts..... It's a VW mag not a historical Political mag after all dude :? Chill 8)

 

[Rosko]

I'm not being unchilled Daz, just wondering where you draw the line in terms of ignoring the wider world in favour of VW ogling.
I think Volksworld (might have been another VW mag) also did an article about that thing where WW2 enthusiasts all get together. A large number seem to enjoy Nazi uniforms and the BBC found a worrying level of Neo-Nazis to be present. Volksworld just said look at those schwimmwagens and hebmullers. I woudn't expect a VW mag to commit time and money to investigate neo-nazi infiltration of such an event but to completely ignore the stuff the BBC found with little or no effort seems a bit slack.

 

[Shaggy]

Well any that is a shame, I will make a note to myself never to put police down the side of my van and drive in Brazil

Not that i can drive at all at the moment i have a flat tyre

 

[Rosko]

Unlucky with the tyre mate . apparently there were loads of top quality spares available but unfortunately they were incinerated on barricades suring the inner-city riots of the '80s! :wink:

 

[Shaggy]

hahahaha.....you know what they have no respect i bet it was them who burst my tyre :shock: