Debadging to save from vandals ?

Oklahoma is notorious for coal rolling echo-car haters. If you can't consider moving, you can do what we did and install a 2-channel Cloud capable set of video cameras. They come in handy if there's a fake accident, a real accident, vandals, even dishonest cops that might pull you over.
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Don't ya just love it when people stereotype.

 

You're right of course

Forced out of EPA, Scott Pruitt promotes coal exports - Portland Press Herald

These Are The 10 Most Dangerous States In America For 2019 - RoadSnacks
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Regardless one's station in life or what they think of themselves, blanket negative statements about where others live and attaching blanket stereotypes is wrong. Using your logic, if property and/or personal attacks happen say in CA...then one could say it's because they are known for being Gay, Liberal, illegal aliens...or TN...it's because they are known for being a bunch of inbred ignorant hillbillies. But we both know that's not true...just like OK folks are not bunch of coal rolling echo-car haters because this guy's car got messed with at this particular Walmart. Even NH has places you might not want to park your car.

Vandals exist everywhere.

 

This might be true on the v like you have (I've never looked at one close up), but the Gen 3 Liftback has holes/locating pins on all badges, side and rear.

Here's a picture from another thread, pins marked with yellow tape:

 

oh please - with the alarmist hysteria ..... we lived in Compton years ago - & no one denies there aren't good people there - any more than the Southwest area of Nashville has some of the most wealthy people in the state, nor that the east side of the city has some of the most dangerous. So QUIT with the 'vandals exist everywhere' obvious blurb - as if anyone doesn't know the obvious - & so we better not speak such things. Wealthy areas have criminal elements (duh), & areas known as dangerous have non-violent folk (duh). To ignore the likelihood of ones enviornment is not a blanket steriotype. Just the opposite. Such naiveté gives evidence of folk that are easily victimized. Jeez. You think THIS photo came from Silicon Valley?

There are more important 'causes' than being an alarmist - champion'ing words / ideas that one can find some way to interpret as being politically Incorrect. Even so, when or if I ever ruffle someone's sensitivities - I apologize.
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Debadging would be a nuisance but it is certainly worth trying. You could also always be the car parked farthest from the store if you are OK walking more. If there are badges that it would be hard to remove, well can you find something that would go completely over the existing badges and just bury them away?

Trying to link a picture of a "Redneck Limited Edition" badge off Ebay, but my link-foo is weak today 8-(

 

Alarmist Hysteria.

This guy lives/shops in a bad neighborhood. "There is a huge meth problem around here though..." That transcends all demographics. Drug Use by State: 2018’s Problem Areas We could do this all day long Hill...but to what end. FWIW, I grew up in Oakland...not the good part either. Take it to Fred's kiddie room.

Slider2732, re/de badging will change nothing when it comes to your's or anyone else's vehicle getting vandalized...regardless who is doing it.

 

"I'm getting yelled at for the truck I drive."

No, he was getting yelled at for extended idling while parked.

 

All the city trucks here, I don't think the crews know there's an off-switch.

 

Just about every vehicle I have owned has been "keyed" or dinged...and usually at a grocery store. Not all Prius owners are idiots (like this lady) and neither are all truck owners. To simply assume a Prius only gets vandalized in OK by coal rollers is like assuming all Prius owners are Democrats and drive to slow. Those assumptions, judgments and actions and are wrong.

 

You could de-badge and let your inner geek shine:

DarkStarLab on Etsy

 

ergo as previously stated - without an eyewitness the dashcam is the way to go. Nothing better than catching scumbags like this;

We had our Leaf keyed at Pep Boys ~5yrs ago, & as the person left, we got their license number as well as their face. Bam.
You can see in the fine print at the bottom of this video caption the cameras are the older 500 series BlackVue relaying video - even for mere motion, which we had, only ours was the 650 model. You got to love it when people are too stupid to notice there's a video camera with its active light running.
On a somewhat snarky humorous level some acts of vandalism do make you smile. Consider an example from Norway;

Maybe I should caveat, in case everbody doesn't know, not all Norwegians are vandals.

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"Don't touch me" - Don't you dare touch me" lol

There are so many videos on YouTube about Prius drivers. Woman like this are the reason why.


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I stand corrected. I based my answer on my experience with my Gen-2, 2008 rear hatch, in which the Hybrid Synergy Drive emblem and the word "Toyota" did not have guide holes. Obviously that changed.

This thread has pics that clearly show the holes in the Gen-3.

 

I really think that driving a Prius, unlike almost any other car, is seen as a strongly left-wing political statement, particularly by those on the far right. Given the current political polarization, it's probably for the better that their anger is taken out on your car.

It may be possible to defuse this with a strategically placed bumper sticker or two. If you can't stomach a MAGA sticker, this one is my favorite:



It's also relatively inexpensive Gas Savings Decal

 

Well - if you want to mix gas savings & guns, you get a side or rear window see-through screen like one of these bad boys. That might cause people with vandalism intent to move on to another victim ~


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