Someone deflates Gregg Doyel's car tire

Hours after Indianapolis Star columnist Gregg Doyle wrote that the New England Patriots should be removed from the Super Bowl for deflating footballs, someone deflated one of Doyle's car's tires: 

Hours after my story on cheating Patriots, someone knifed my car. Story http://t.co/TE4R7Q3eX5 pic.twitter.com/TLkVwfN7yW
— Gregg Doyel (@GreggDoyelStar) January 21, 2015

Doyle doesn't provide much more information, other than to emphasize that someone used a knife to pop the tire. Drawing a link between his scathing column and the slashed tire makes sense, although I'm not sure how the culprit knew where to find Doyle's car. 

I obviously don't think anyone should get their tire slashed for something they write, even if I vehemently disagree with the story. It sucks Doyle has to deal with this headache.

But it does give me an excuse to make a parallel to the deflated football controversy, so this incident isn't all bad.