The Vandal Party's activities increase

It's been common in elections over the past twenty years for signs to be vandalized (usually Conservative or minor party signs in the ridings I'd passed through), but this is a new and disturbing development:

Imagine yourself behind the wheel, pulling up to a stop sign and pumping the brakes, only to find that your car isn't stopping.

That's what happened to more than a dozen Liberal supporters in Toronto, voters who had their brake lines cut in what police think may have been a targeted assault.

"I could've been killed. Lots of other people could've been killed," one of the affected residents, Andrew Laine, said. "It was lucky my two children weren't in the car at the time. This is really serious."

The attack drew a quick response from Liberal leader Stephane Dion.

"There is no place for these types of dangerous and reckless intimidation tactics in our democracy," he fumed in a press release.

The vandalism occurred in two ridings: Parkdale-High Park, where Gerard Kennedy is the Liberal candidate, and the midtown riding of St Paul's, where Carolyn Bennett is the incumbent. Cops allege only homes that had Liberal signs were attacked.

Given how anti-Tory most Toronto ridings are, it's quite surprising that it's been Liberal supporters who were targeted by the vandals.