OK, so pride flags painted on the street are a thing. Way back in 2017, local media reported that an intersection in midtown Atlanta had been graced with permanent rainbow pride flag crosswalks … at a cost of $196,000. There’s a problem, though, with painting your pride colors on the street … people are going to drive over them. In 2018, a pride crosswalk in Hamilton, Ontario was apparently vandalized, so it’s an international problem:
ICYMI: Are black tire marks on Hamilton’s rainbow crosswalk vandalism? https://t.co/acw8AZHiq6 pic.twitter.com/EiJnGqp4GL
— Hamilton Spectator (@TheSpec) August 22, 2018
In 2021, we reported that a man in Florida faced felony charges for doing a tire burn-out on a crosswalk that had been painted for Pride Month. And now we’re learning that another pride flag has been defaced with tire tracks in Florida. Here’s Sun-Sentinel reporter Susannah Bryan:
From a #FortLauderdale source: “It appears that the Pride Flag at Sebastian and Seabreeze has been possibly defaced. Less than a month (after its debut). Shameful.” Some are hoping surveillance cameras might shed light on who did this. pic.twitter.com/ZdWgm4OU0V
— Susannah Bryan (@Susannah_Bryan) March 4, 2023
Cry more, then cope and seethe.
— @Malvenue (@Malvenue) March 8, 2023
WHY is it painted on a public street in the first place?
— Sandy 〽️ (@RightGlockMom) March 8, 2023
Thoughts and Prayers! Maybe @PeteButtigieg can fly down for a photo op of him repainting it while media stooges like you fawn over him.
— Tony AJB FJB Bruno (@TonyBrunoShow) March 8, 2023
This reminds us of all the photo-ops of then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pitching in to paint “Black Lives Matter” on city streets. De Blasio declared that one block would become pedestrian-only for the summer to preserve the BLM mural from tire tracks. That’s kind of the chance you take when you paint on the street.
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Thoughts and prayers for the appearance of tire marks on your street.
— Federalist Musket🇺🇸 (@Patriot_Musket) March 8, 2023
Cool. It is just property.
— Rev. Ducati 🏁🏴☠️ (@Reverend_Ducati) March 8, 2023
How about we just don’t politicize roads?
— Corbin Sabol (@corbinsabol) March 8, 2023
Black Tires Matter
— Jackson Pokorney (@JacksonPokorney) March 8, 2023
It's painted on a road for crying out loud. pic.twitter.com/euQByuLgSX
— Rogue Penguin (@Rogue_40) March 8, 2023
Defaced. By Tire tracks. On a street.
— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) March 8, 2023
It's a street, vehicles drive on streets so expect tire tracks 🤔🙄
— Musings of a nobody (@JustaCi54400863) March 8, 2023
Maybe don't put political statements on the street where vehicles drive.
— Real Man of Genius (@realmanofgenius) March 8, 2023
You should go down there to scrub it off.
— Monika (@MonikaMusing) March 8, 2023
President Biden should fly down there and visit the site.
I’m wondering why we have pride flags painted on public streets in the first place.
— Med Bennett (@MedBennett) March 8, 2023
That’s not a bad question.
The worst attack on our Democracy since the Civil War.
— U.S. Ministry of Truth (@USMiniTru) March 8, 2023
Who could have possibly foreseen that a mural on a street might get tire tracks on it?!? Who would have thought it!!! pic.twitter.com/XpV9L0421W
— Crispus Attucks, Esq 🥃 (@cattucks1775) March 8, 2023
Get that random art off the roads. It's offensive and unnecessarily distracting.
— Motz (@Motz91927026) March 8, 2023
It’s not a flag! It’s a street!
— Jeffrey A Gray (@jeffreyalangray) March 8, 2023
I thought vandalism of flags was a protected right to show dissent and that's essential in a free society.
— Wes (@Wes65570474) March 8, 2023
You can burn an American flag, but you can’t leave tire tracks on a pride flag … that’s painted on the road.
Did you mean that someone defaced the intersection of Sebastian and Seabreeze with that hideous Pride Flag?
— Huff (@Huff4Congress) March 8, 2023
Let’s hope surveillance cameras track down the homophobe who did this, so they can make him also write an essay about the hate that gay people face.
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Florida man faces felony charges after doing a burnout with his pickup on a Pride-painted intersection https://t.co/PLsx0nN6Nv
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 19, 2021
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