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[Tellemurius]

I'm actually finding my own local occupy wallstreet effort quite funny.
75 people or less in a park about the size of a city block. It does NOT feel crowded at all. The effort is actually pretty laughable...

So, our Mayor says these guys are a public health hazard and all kinds of crap, so decides to not renew a permit allowing them to have shelter. He sends in the police the day after he decides not to renew it to confiscate all the structures.
I'm sitting here going "Really? Our Homeless population on the greenway is more disruptive than these guys and more in violation of the law, and THIS is the unsanitary group? A group who setup their own sanitation and kept the park cleaner than it's been in years?
It's ridiculous. Nobody is being clubbed, but it makes you go "WTF?!"
Of course it's not like our "protesters" weren't willing to take advantage of this. Look at this link
Particularly pay attention to the guy with the bowl at 9:40

Anyone Curious, Colorado Springs has a population of over 400,000. So what you are seeing is the 0.02% of my city

It's cold, what can I say?

Balls cold, gave some guy my old jacket during the snowstorm, i do help the Denver guys once in a while either cooking or first aid (trust me, im a doctor )

[Nadaka]

I still have not managed to make it to an occupy rally... but I have been occupying the interwebs.

[alway]

Don't worry guys, according to fox news, pepper spray is no big deal, 'it's a food product essentially'!
http://thedailywh.at/2011/11/22/say-what-now-of-the-day-18/#disqus_thread

[RedKing]

Don't worry guys, according to fox news, pepper spray is no big deal, 'it's a food product essentially'!
http://thedailywh.at/2011/11/22/say-what-now-of-the-day-18/#disqus_thread

So is ricin. For that matter, so is salmonella and botulism.
EDIT: The more I think about this, the more pissed off I get. I love hot food and hot sauces, and I've accidentally gotten just a smidge of Dave's Insanity Sauce (roughly 180,000 Scovilles) in my eye before and been in agony. The stuff they used at Berkeley was pure capsaicin which is about 15 to 16 MILLION Scovilles (i.e. about 80 times more concentrated).

I would love to see FOX catch so much flack for this that Megan Kelly has to publicly undergo pepper spraying or recant. Just like there was a media craze for having reporters get tased in the wake of the "Don't tase me, bro!" thing.

[EmperorNuthulu]

Don't worry guys, according to fox news, pepper spray is no big deal, 'it's a food product essentially'!
http://thedailywh.at/2011/11/22/say-what-now-of-the-day-18/#disqus_thread

 Okay America, us Europeans will stop making fat jokes when you stop classifying everything as foods. Pizza as a vegetable was rather bad, but this is going too far. Do you eat everything now?

[RedKing]

Don't worry guys, according to fox news, pepper spray is no big deal, 'it's a food product essentially'!
http://thedailywh.at/2011/11/22/say-what-now-of-the-day-18/#disqus_thread

 Okay America, us Europeans will stop making fat jokes when you stop classifying everything as foods. Pizza as a vegetable was rather bad, but this is going too far. Do you eat everything now?

You may have a point. We've also apparently classified bullshit as a food product, because we certainly get fed enough of it on a daily basis.

[ChairmanPoo]

As if Europe was any better...

[Darvi]

Marginally.

[Bauglir]

Margarinally.

I've improved your post.

[kaijyuu]

That he has.

[alway]

Heh, now there's an image macro of Megyn Kelly, the fox news anchor who called pepper spray 'a food product essentially.' http://www.reddit.com/search?q=megyn+kelly&restrict_sr=off&sort=relevance
Mustard gas, it's a hotdog condiment essentially!
Bamboo under fingernails, it's a manicure essentially!
Fox News, it's a news network essentially!

[Kogan Loloklam]

Anyone curious about the Colorado Spring movement, Yesterday the movement set up tables near city hall. In theory for brochures. The cops wanted to know who owned them. They implied whomever owned them would get ticked, and if nobody claimed them they would never be returned.
Youtube Link of the officer implying that.
Nicholas Galetka was detained and ticketed after claiming they were his.

There ya go, the police brutality in the Hard-Core CS!


I'm sure they would have broken out the pepper spray, but that might have been seen as helping to maintain a city park. This has been against the City's wishes since we refused to enlarge their trough. They are certain the citizens will break and give them more tax money once we see our parks wither away! It just might take a few years...

The Mayor's letter to his planning department reguarding occupying protesters, just because.

[SalmonGod]

Apparently this guy is going memetic also.

[Tellemurius]

Anyone curious about the Colorado Spring movement, Yesterday the movement set up tables near city hall. In theory for brochures. The cops wanted to know who owned them. They implied whomever owned them would get ticked, and if nobody claimed them they would never be returned.
Youtube Link of the officer implying that.
Nicholas Galetka was detained and ticketed after claiming they were his.

There ya go, the police brutality in the Hard-Core CS!


I'm sure they would have broken out the pepper spray, but that might have been seen as helping to maintain a city park. This has been against the City's wishes since we refused to enlarge their trough. They are certain the citizens will break and give them more tax money once we see our parks wither away! It just might take a few years...

The Mayor's letter to his planning department reguarding occupying protesters, just because.

lol, i just heard recently Denver Police wants a 6mill increase budget due to massive stacks of overtime and papertrails.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

EDIT:The stuff they used at Berkeley was pure capsaicin which is about 15 to 16 MILLION Scovilles (i.e. about 80 times more concentrated).

Err...not exactly. Pure capsaicin is not and could not be used in pepper spray, because after around 13,000,000 Scovilles the capsaicin will start to crystallize as more is added to the mix, ending at 16,000,000 Scovilles, which is pure capsaicin crystal. Law enforcement grade pepper spray ranges from 500,000 to 2,000,000 Scovilles. I've eaten food that is near or possibly even above that lower limit, and while not pleasant, it can be bearable with acclimatization. My father, who is even more of a heat freak than I am, would probably not even have been phased by having pepper spray sprayed down his throat, but when it comes to spicy food love he is probably in the 99%th percentile. And being sprayed in the eyes is another matter entirely.

Of course, pepper spray is not food in any case.

TL:DR: Order world's hottest sauces and train with them to become immune to pepper spray.