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| 2006-08-05 |
| Source is some alternative(?) local newspaper(?). Author seems kind of a goob, but he didn't approve of the stunt Code Pink pulled in KC a couple weeks ago. The operation: Bike up to pumps, wrap a pink trash bag around the handle and prevent customers from filling up — for a minute or two. Sarah Finken would lead chants with her megaphone while others would wave banners. The first target was the QuikTrip at Westport Road and Mercier, already a cauldron of circling cars and surly customers. Seven bicycles rolled to the pumps at 5:16, inciting a couple of anti-war honks. Out came the trash bags. To stunned motorists, the activists said things such as "no gas today," "keep driving" and "we're taking over." At ["cheerleader" Sarah] Finken's pump, a Dick Cheney look-alike in shorts, sandals and an apoplectic rage, leapt from his red Dodge van and pushed her aside. "I'm sorry, we're taking over right now," she said. "Move the fuck out of my way!" He dragged her bike from the pump. Cheney finally lost it completely when he spotted Code Pinker Andrew Badgerow snapping away with a digital camera. Cheney upended a bike and seized Badgerow's camera, which he threw to the pavement, shattering it. Law student Badgerow chose not to confront the rampaging Cheney... More at the link, including a pic. Read the rest. There's a happy ending. Via the The Indepundit via Tim Blair |
| Posted by:Angie Schultz |
| #7 good point elarson, I was always too busy inserting the squeegee down their trachea to discuss geopolitical/religion/morality theory. I guess I'm guilty of insensitivity. Mea Culpa |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-08-05 18:42 |
| #6 "It's another indication of how addicted we've become — some of us aren't willing to take the minute and a half to talk to someone about it. We've lost that willingness to have a conversation or to engage with another living person." Yeah. Sure. Looking back on it, I've never really had an engaging conversation that started with my interlocutor wrapping a garbage bag around my intended gas pump. I could have missed one, but I don't think so. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2006-08-05 18:15 |
| #5 BAD MISTAKE. People get psychotic at the gas pump over small stuff. A few years ago, a "Candid Camera"-style show tried a trick at some gas pumps which made the pump still show that gas was pumping, and running up the price, even after the customers had stopped pumping. The people pumping went violently nuts. They didn't care after the show's producer told them that it was a joke, and all the gas they had pumped was free. They were red-eyed pissed off, and both men and women pushed him and even took swings at him while using the foulest of language. They didn't air it on television. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-08-05 14:16 |
| #4 Try to do that in some parts of town, you'd get your ass capped by a gang member. And no own would be able to provide information to the interviewing officer. Un ah, nope, didn't see nottin. |
| Posted by: Chinese Whuger3858 2006-08-05 12:42 |
| #3 I never could understand the logic of convincing people to your side by pissing them off. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-08-05 12:03 |
| #2 What a useless bunch of people. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-08-05 11:39 |
#1 With a feathery boa wrapped around her Peaches T-shirt, Finken commandeered the easternmost pumps. She kicked off the chants with "money for health care!"ROFLMAO! :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-08-05 11:23 |