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So today was supposed to be a fun evening of hanging out with friends to watch our weekly episode of American Gladiator (which by the way is a sweet show!!). It was about 10:10PM when I left their house, along with my brother and my friend to whom we were giving a ride home.

We got into our car, nothing out of the ordinary. As I started to pull away though, the steering wheel felt horribly wrong. It would pull far over to the right and the ride felt very hard. I only travelled a few meters before I stopped to figure out what the problem was. Guess what? A flat tire.

Being how it was night time in the dead of winter, I decided the best course of action was to pull out our compact tire pump and attempt to pump up the tire. While it was pumping, all of us whipped out our camera phones and used the light from the camera flash and screens to try and find out where, if any leak, was coming from.

We stayed on the safer side and filled the tire to 40 psi. Evil would have prevailed and sure enough, as we turned off the pump, we heard a distinct hiss of a leak. No choice, we had to change the tire.

Luckily though, the three of us made short work of the task at hand and we did not have to stay outside in the cold for long. Upon placing the flat tire in the back of our car, we noticed the full extent of our damage. There was a 5 cm gash in the sidewall, only possible with a knife. I honestly didn't think that vandalism was involved!! I mean, we could have easily run over a nail on the way to parking and collected a slow leak.

But no, it had to be done by some jocks who've got something against Toyota's. This wasn't the first time something happened to our car. Another time, we had Chili poured all over the windshield of our car which also froze over, all while being parked in the exact same place. I just wish I could smack those guys flat with my flat tire! 'nuff said. I'm tired, sleepy, and now I'm going to figure out what to do if I ever ran into those culprits...

Tags: tire slashers, Toyota Matrix