You are right. I would like to know, "What happened?" This man described as a "downright good person" seems to have slipped a cog. Slashing the tires of people you don't know seems pretty crazy to me. Apparently, he wasn't "pond scum" until he did this crazy act of vandalism, which has cost a lot of people money as well as serious inconvenience, and REALLY pissed off a lot of people.