(February 16, 2017 at 9:53 am)Khemikal Wrote: Did I ask you whether or not you'd run like a bitch?  No, no I didn't.    

So I take it the answer is no, you wouldn't risk your life to run over a protester?  Thank god.

At least I'd be a live bitch. You'd be a dead dumb ass for sticking around.

(February 16, 2017 at 10:40 am)A Theist Wrote:

(February 16, 2017 at 9:53 am)Khemikal Wrote: Did I ask you whether or not you'd run like a bitch?  No, no I didn't.    

So I take it the answer is no, you wouldn't risk your life to run over a protester?  Thank god.

At least I'd be a live bitch. You'd be a dead dumb ass for sticking around.

Well, can't speak for the US, never been there and all I got is the usual news about hurricanes tornados and what the POTUS is doing. One day Ill visit when I find gold in Portugal. You never know.

Around here, protests are usually escorted by the regular cops with the 3 foot batton hit&run squad as backup. In political matters rarely we have riots, just skirmishes, usually done either by anarchists and/or right wing extremists. They usually ruin a firm protest.

An example. There was a protest that cabbies did against uber and cabify here. Some elements later found to be not cabbies but just soccer hooligans, went in there and started attacking cars suspected of being uber cars. They ruined a perfectly legit protest IMO. Cabbies need a professional drivers license here and have to pay maintenance on the meters and subject their cars to strict safety inspections every year. Uber drivers do not. It is an example ofc.

In everything there must be some patience. Usually the radio tells the news and traffic, so when driving I avoid protests. It would take longer to go trought it without incident, than to just go around it.

And we have a very nice President. If you murricans wish to kill her, the name is Angela Merkel.

(February 16, 2017 at 12:23 pm)LastPoet Wrote: And we have a very nice President. If you murricans wish to kill her, the name is Angela Merkel.

Maybe it'll work itself out for you this election cycle. From what I've been watching on the news, she's in a very tight race so far.

Riots are awesome. I'll be going to the first real one. Legal to run over rioters? Whatever I don't think that rioters really care about legality.

(February 17, 2017 at 10:43 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Riots are awesome. I'll be going to the first real one. Legal to run over rioters? Whatever I don't think that rioters really care about legality.

I've been through a couple. "Awesome" is not a word I'd use to describe them, myself.

(February 18, 2017 at 5:22 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(February 17, 2017 at 10:43 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Riots are awesome. I'll be going to the first real one. Legal to run over rioters? Whatever I don't think that rioters really care about legality.

I've been through a couple. "Awesome" is not a word I'd use to describe them, myself.

Ayup.  Truncheons cracking heads, rubber bullets, CS canisters going off - nothing but a party, that is.  BUT the real fun is when one cop is lying on top of you, holding you down with his riot shield, while his mates put the boot in.  'Awesome' doesn't begin to describe the unbounded joy that is a riot.

Boru

please note:  the above is intended as sarcasm.  any person who expresses a sincere desire to go to a riot should be avoided at all costs.  thank you

(February 18, 2017 at 5:30 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(February 18, 2017 at 5:22 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I've been through a couple. "Awesome" is not a word I'd use to describe them, myself.

Ayup.  Truncheons cracking heads, rubber bullets, CS canisters going off - nothing but a party, that is.  BUT the real fun is when one cop is lying on top of you, holding you down with his riot shield, while his mates put the boot in.  'Awesome' doesn't begin to describe the unbounded joy that is a riot.

Boru

please note:  the above is intended as sarcasm.  any person who expresses a sincere desire to go to a riot should be avoided at all costs.  thank you

Shit, I was in a schoolbus, and was told to keep my head down below the window -- white folks would get the bus attacked and tipped. Of course, I was a little 12-year-old cuss so I had to look. The Iranians were using real bullets at some point, judging from the bodies I saw.

I've been in Portsmouth when an English Defence League March was going on outside. Where was a speeding truck where one was needed.

This man went to the Trump school of speachyfying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYd9qbRz2fc