FUH2 and some anti-SUV fun

If you've been keeping up with the cycling blogosphere then I'm sure you have seen the Chevy Tahoe "make your own commercial contest." Many people are having lots of fun subverting the contest with anti-SUV messages. Some are dead serious about their messages, while others are just looking to have some fun.

The Chevy Tahoe doesn't actually bother me too much. Sure it's too big and downright ugly, but GM is actually trying to become more responsible with this new design. It runs on Ethanol and gets fairly decent gas mileage compared to others in its class.

It's Hummers that piss me off. Every-time I see one in the parking lot of Best Buy sticking it's ass way out into the roadway I get that "you make me sick" feeling in my stomach.

I'm not actually against SUVs. I'm against excess and poor design. Hummers, Escalades, and maybe even the Chevy Tahoe personify this excess. In fact - unfortunately - nearly all American cars do, but that's another story. Many mountain bikers drive SUVs and are using them for both sport and utility. However, they typically drive cars more practical in nature then the Hummers of the world. I see them driving Xterras, Pilots, 4Runners, Elements, Wranglers, Explorers, Forresters, and pick-up trucks - all mostly practical vehicles. So this post is not an indictment against all SUV drivers out there.

Anyway, to start off the week I thought we'd have a little anti-Hummer/anti-SUV fun:

First up on the list is FUH2.com (via Church of the Customer blog). The site that encourages you to submit photos of yourself or others giving Hummers and/or their drivers the tall-finger salute. You can even buy the photographic mosaic as a poster.

Next we have spoof parking stickers from the Alliance Against Urban 4x4s in the U.K. Their cause is intended to be serious, but I think the idea of issuing fake tickets to these "wastemonsters," as the Alliance calls them, is hilarious. The ticket issuing advice is humorous. I like the following suggestions:

• To issue a ticket, simply identify a parked wastemonster and slip the ticket under the windscreen wiper on the passenger side.
• Don’t issue tickets to moving or occupied vehicles. This might distract the driver and cause an accident.

Perhaps the best prank ticket of them all is that of Stay Free! Magazine. (Image from MotherJones.com). The fake ticket allows the issuer to check one of ten reasons for the violation including "holing self up in two-ton metal fortress" and "compensating for lack of manhood." (By the way, Martin of Martino's Bike Lane Diary has his own version of this ticket for issuance in Toronto...look for Fake Ticket in the "resource" list on the right hand side).

The best part of this prank is that Stay Free! set up a forum for ticket recipients to provide their feedback to the prank. Some of the comments are downright hysterical.

Ok...so that's it for now. Have any of you actually used these tickets? I'd love to hear the stories. Also, if you submitted an entry to the Chevy Tahoe contest feel free to link it up here in the comments. I wanted to include a list of those that I saw over the last few weeks, but couldn't find them again.