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Logan Murphy on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 8:30 PM - PDT
We are now officially a nation of hysterics:
Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge. The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.
New Haven ophthalmologist Daniel Salchow, 36, and his sister, Dorothee, 31, who is visiting from Hamburg, Germany, were both charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony. Read more…
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Breach of peace? What the fuck is that?!!!!!!!
stranger yet we are now joining the Pajama Media in a laugh at life.
Turd!
Everybody should refresh their memory of The Franklin Cover-Up and the documentary prepared for the Discovery Channel that never aired.
http://video.google.com/videop.....8401208062
Larry Craig is just the latest of a bunch of hypocrites and criminals. Let us not forget that these people have support within the highest levels of our government, take for example Jeff Gannon/Guckert who was given a press pass to lob soft ball questions to the Press Secretary even though he had no real journalistic credentials. Our Government is rotten and we need to clean the hell out of it.
Don’t see anything to laugh about when authorities act like idiots. And then need to charge someone to justify their behavior.
What’s that greatest thing we have to fear again? Terrorism? Muslim Extremists? Iranian Nuclear Holocaust?
…nope, that’s not it.
1st degree breach of peace? What inadvertent act couldn’t fall under that category? Anything that makes some idiot break into a hysterical fit?
The shrub will kill us all.
Breach of the peace my ass, they’re being charged with “Preventing the local police from looking like complete idiots by being scapegoats.”
What is particularly chilling is that under the latest legislation from the Bush administration, they could be held indefinitely, incommunicado.
To think of the of the family values education that were interrupted in the mens room when they had to evacuate!
The parking lot doesn’t make a particularly effective delivery vehicle.
It better get thrown out of court.
Snowball @ 7:
Really. Is it ethical to yell “Movie!” in a crowded firehouse? How about “BOO!” in a hysterical haunted-house?
But in this case, who exactly “breached the peace”? Was it the harmless act of a couple of bicycle riders, or the police over reacting? Who, then should be charged?
One wonders what dirt they dug up on Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA) to get him to flip-flop on the occupation of Iraq and start spouting Friedman Units after the supervised dog and pony show he was treated to in that poor country?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/...../#comments
Just listening to this guy it’s clear something doesn’t smell right. He can’t be that stupid.
conneticutt, the state of fear
Do you guys in the US ever wonder how the rest of the world sees you when things like this happen?
My apologies because I know there are a lot of decent people here at C&L but you are seen as weak, hysterical and motivated by little else other than money and instant gratification.
The “Daily Show” is airing the Bill Kristol episode from a week or two ago.
The entire time Kristol acts as if he knows whats correct. He suggests he knows what we need to do and be afraid of.
He intends to be more arrogant with his fiction than you do with your facts.
I suggest we become more arrogant than these three time losers on the right.
Wess @ 15:
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
It is rediculous that intent isn’t taken into account with these stupid charges. Remember the light bright guys in boston. They made fun of the media by talking just about thier hair. they felt they didn’t have to apoligize for people being scared when they just set up lite brite boards of cartoon characters.
I thought it was great that they didn’t buy into the media frenzy and plead not guilty since they were not guilty. Lo and behold I’m watching the news later and the snarky news is like remember those guys that thought it was funny to make fun of the news well they got thiers and the guys had to apologize. It is stupid. They were brought to thier knees by a prosocuter with no integrity.
Wess @ 15:
Yeah I know money and greed are completely absent in the rest of the world.
Wess @ 15:
well it after all is a country of latterday masterbaters ,
So you say these two are from Hamburg, Germany….
Perfect…
Conneticutt, giving a big international hug all over the world…
The best the US has to offer…
Water board them, poke an eye out and cut a few fingers off and they will admit to terrorism.
tyree @ 20:
Normally, I’d go ahead and be embarrassed for my fellow Americans, but not this time. No way will I ever be this fucking stupid and cowardly. And on that topic: props to Savid Salchow for riding down there and trying to straighten things out. Ten bucks says this guy is not a republican. A republican would never have the stones or integrity to face the music. He’d be cowering in a bathroom stall, tapping his foot and….
…nevermind…
Bonkers @ 23:
I love you, Bonkers.
They were just sprinkling the flower to mark out the running course, because some US Americans in our nation don’t have maps…
;-)
It’s not just in the U.S. where corruption of government occurs…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow
We have a lot of work to do.
I swear, you can’t make up this shit….
this twilight zone novella literally writes itself….
This is just like what happened with the Light Bright stunt promoting that silly cartoon show that happened a while back.
Paranoia is a trigger for authoritarianism. Fear is the most primal motivator for getting the public to acquiesce to total Fascism.
The sprinkled powder didn’t force anybody to do anything. The idiots in authority suits forced the evacuation. Jeez, you can’t do anything in America anymore without wondering how it’s going to be perceived by some terror-filled idiot with the authority to lock you away.
Mission accomplished, bush.
I wish we could edit our posts. That should be “The,” not “he.”
Sitemonitor - Fixed!
bush would have snorted it
Snowball @ 28:
THAT’S THE ONE! The greatest thing we have to fear…is fear.
Exact same thing happened in Chicago a couple years ago.
They blocked off the park and called in all sorts of hazmat and emergency response squads.
Then, a reporter called the cops and said, “Um, a running club marks their trails with chalk there every week.”
Nobody was arrested, tho.
budda @ 31:
LOL !! :) I can always count on a few C&Lers to come up with something that is just spot on and to make me laugh.
In 2002, five blocks in Chicago were closed off and the Lincoln Park Zoo evacuated for an afternoon after a running club marked a trail with flour in that area. A similar incident in Wichita, Kansas, in 1999 shut down the whole downtown area one morning. No charges were brought in those cases.You’d think they’d be catching on by now.
In 2002, five blocks in Chicago were closed off and the Lincoln Park Zoo evacuated for an afternoon after a running club marked a trail with flour in that area. A similar incident in Wichita, Kansas, in 1999 shut down the whole downtown area one morning. No charges were brought in those cases.
Sorry, meant to italicize.
Stupid as all get out.
I thought a breach of peace was when I hear a loud car stereo outside at 11:00 pm on a Tuesday.
My god they’re trying to turn us into gerbils. “It’s flour! RUN!!!”
Gawd…
Are we turning out to be a nation of Chicken Littles….
The Sky is Falling….The Sky is Falling……
Wess @ 15:
We know, we know…
How do you get a day off from work?
Sprinkle flour on the parking lot.
We can’t do shit anymore because of chimpy and his warmongering behavior.
Just think, Hansel and Gretel would be felons for sprinkling breadcrumbs.
the cons have made the sheeple afraid of their own shadows
Hashing, isn’t it? Been around for quite a while.
The U.S. has the most gun nuts.
tHeGaMeOfLiFe @ 42:
book ‘em Dano…..
Good night and good luck all…..
Guess it happened in Florida in 2004 too…another running club, another flour trail, another panic attack from the authorities. One of the runners posted some interesting observations:
OK, the Daytona hash was interesting tonight. here are a few things I learned.
Park your car as far away from where the hashers gather at the start. ( Just maybe you will not in up inside the police roped off area)
Always bring cash and ID on trail. (You never know when you may need to spend a little more time in a bar waiting for the police to let you in your car or to leave the parking lot.)
Never and I mean never lay trail in a Wal-Mart store.
I did not know that Deland had that many polices cars.
Hazmat teams do not respond that fast. ( I guess to takes a while to put on the suits)
Cops can follow trail, well at least back to the start.
Were the helicopters trying to follow the trail also?
Do we need to die flower again so it will not be mistaken for something else.
http://www.dbh3.us/trash/OldTr.....eb04.shtml
The face of terror:
http://www.highwaygirl.com/hwg.....ughboy.jpg
Next they will be arresting little kids for writing on the sidewalks with sidewalk chalk.
Sometimes I think the police are just as stupid as Bush and his paraonoid war mongers. They get off on the authoritarian crap. Makes them think they are real men.
Electronic vote machine company gamed the chads in Palm Beach County in the 2000 election, purposely misaligning the chads on the ballots (remember?). Whistleblowers step forward:
Dan Rather has to leave corporate controlled CBS to get us the real news.
So, they purposely misalign the chads, and then “come to the rescue” with electronic vote machines!
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4994
Give me a break. You mean that if I drop a bag of flour in the parking lot at Winco, I could be charged with a felony? My god, what is happening to this country. What have we become, a nation of hysterics. Thanks Mr. Bush, you have done your job well.
Has anyone else heard of Bush entering us into the North American Union with Canada & Mexico where they are going to replace the dollar with the Amero? Just like in Europe with the European Union & Euro…Asia with a new asian union & money approaching as well as Africa? On the the way to a One World Government & New World Order, aren’t we?
ABC is doing that to Kucinich, too. So we have Ron Paul’s people and Dennis Kucinich’s people exposing how the corporate controlled mainstream media is controlling our elections by not giving equal coverage of candidates.
In the 60’s it was the flower children the government targeted, today it’s the flour children.
At least Boston was frightened by actual Mooninites.
LuLz.