an ongoing grassroots campaign of vandalism.

I know of one that was done to a pawn shop in a Montreal neighbourhood, called InstaCash. After it opened, break-ins in the neighbourhood started climbing. The folks that lived there (not I, I lived about twenty blocks south of that area; I had friends that lived near there) kept finding their stuff in that store, and figured that it increased crimes of opportunities by crackheads and junkies looking for "InstaCash", so they decided to get rid of it. They did this by routinely breaking its windows, crazy-gluing its locks, and so on. Along the way, if someone had a break-in they'd go in to see if the stuff was there, so they could inform the police and recover their property. The intent was to make it so expensive to operate that the game wasn't worth the candle.

The store closed about nine months later.