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Wendy, 35, a free-lance editor, and a fellow tagger, Alex, scout a neighborhood of well-kept brownstones for half an hour before they choose their first target: a deep green Toyota Land Cruiser (estimated city m.p.g.: 13). Alex, 39, an avid cyclist and musician, peers up and down the street before peeling off the protective paper and slapping the Toyota's bumper with a sticker that proclaims, "I'm Changing the Climate! Ask Me How!" and gives the website address of Changing the Climate changingtheclimate.com) based in San Francisco. The group has sold 40,000 of the stickers...
...from the shadowy Earth Liberation Front (E.L.F.), which claimed responsibility for an arson attack in January at a Ford dealership in Girard, Pa. Self-described E.L.F. members also slashed tires and splashed chemicals on some 30 SUVs parked on streets in Richmond, Va., last fall. Wendy and Alex condemn such vandalism. "That's ecoterrorism," says Alex. Slapping unwanted bumper stickers on SUVs, he claims, "is just fighting the good fight with a sense of humor...
...caught by police in New York City--as in many other jurisdictions--Wendy and Alex could face a fine of as much as $250 for unlawfully posting advertisements, and higher if the sticker could not be easily removed. Some SUV owners, however, want to administer their own brand of justice--if only they could catch taggers. Even Alex admits, "I wouldn't like someone stickering up my bicycle." --By Amanda Bower
Last November approximately 29 million viewers saw AARON BUERGE propose to schoolteacher HELENE EKSTEROWICZ on Fox's The Bachelor. Over New Year's, approximately nobody watched as they broke up. But theirs is not the most scandalous of behind-the-scenes Bachelor doings. The original, first-season Bachelor, Alex Michel, and his TV fiance, Amanda Marsh, have also called it quits. The reason? During the show's taping, Michel slept with--wait for it--TRISTA REHN, a runner-up to Marsh and current star of The Bachelorette. Even though Michel chose Marsh in the end, she told Inside Edition that...
...second game, we played the best volleyball we have all season long,” said tri-captain and middle hitter Alex Kowell...