Bugger!!!!!!
talk about repeat posts!!!
damn a2k went down last night, for me, but look at what it did in my absence!
Speaking of cops...
Last weekend I was driving downtown, and there was a food festival going on, and a bunch of dudes attacked another dude in a cross walk. It wasn't really brutal -- they picked him up and threw him on the ground and kicked and punched him softly a few times, then ran off after a bit of this. All involved were young black males, and it seemed like they all knew each other. There were a whole bunch of police (all white, as far as I could tell) standing by, and none of them did anything to break up the fracas, nor did they pursue any of the attackers, even though some were on bicycles and easily could have caught up. What they did do, though, was pull a cruiser out into the intersection (thereby blocking all traffic), pick the guy up, toss him roughly on the hood, search him, and then proceed to question him in what for the life of me looked like a hostile manner for several minutes (blocking traffic and created public aggravation the whole while, as most drivers hadn't been able to see what happened). After a while they let him go, without appearing to write anything down, and let traffic move on. The whole episode took about five minutes.
Now, I've seen enough "playful" beatings that (sad as it may be), I wasn't really surprised by the whole thing. But I just couldn't believe the cops -- even though they are Seattle cops and are gaining quite the reputation around here for standing by idly, as they did a couple of years at Mardi Gras while a guy was being beaten to death or overreacting to a minor threat, as when they shot a retarded (black) teenager brandishing a sword a while back -- to repeat, I couldn't believe that they not only did nothing to pursue the attackers, but proceeded to harrass the man who was attacked.
Anyway, that's what's going through my head about cops right now. God love 'em. Protect and serve.
Pleased to meet you. Hope you guessed my name.
Oh, c'mon, beth -- have a little sympathy, would ya?
where's miss jones? he might be in there.
in the meantime, here's a little coke and... compassion.
I watched the glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the Gods they made.
STONES CONCERT TOMORROW!! Yeah...
Hmm...Interesting point of view. Personally, my own instinctive reaction is to do whatever anybody holding a gun tells me to do. Cops -- believe it or not -- are human. They get scared and react the way any frightened nimal would -- aggressively. If they think you are a danger to them, they'll shoot you. So I comply.
But, dlowan, perhaps your reaction was much wiser. Your analogy of calming a frightened horse is very apropos. An otherwise reasonable person who is threatening you with a gun needs to be calmed down.
cav
I hear there is half a million people expected. Kind of like the old days.
wish I could be there......
Yep, and only 5 beer tickets per person
If there is a riot, I say it's their own fault.
it's gonna be a partayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
still trying to figure out if i can sneak in a visit to my neighbour's sister-in-law while Setanta's driving here. her garden backs onto Downsview.
partayyyyyyyyyyyy!
only 5 beer tickets at a time, and you can only take 2 at a time out of the beer tent. so 3 trips in to get your 5 beer - weird.
Wouldn't you just get your five, drink three in the beer tent, and take 2 outside, down them, and then mug some old geezer for his five.
There were lots of wrinkly geezers at the Oz concerts. (You know - people the same age as the Stones, and with the same lifestyle!)
Hmmmmmmm - but they look good, in a special kind of way!
Keith Richards looks like he lives on embalming fluid and Geritol . . .
The trouble with (us) geezers is we have been to more ten times more concerts, road shows, paloozas, festivals and freak-outs than any of the wimps lurking by the beer tent seeking to mug us for our tickets.
And they (them puncks) have only had five beers to build up their courage. cmon,
J
I think Keef actually does live on enbalming fluid an Geritol, ever since he kicked heroin anyway. Wifey doesn't plan on drinking, so it looks like I may get 10 beers.
Then...let the mugging begin...
