My hometown! College riots, shut down public event?

Post by **rdhopeca** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:39 am

Ok so my hometown of Keene has won the Guiness Book of World Records number of lighted pumpkins in one place for many years running. This year the local college boozeheads decided to riot, and now there is talk of shutting it down.

Go New Hampshire.

www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/mayhe ... 54d4a.html

Post by **Ur Dead** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:30 am

Years before they used to drink from the fountain of fun. Looks like they started bringing cases of stupid.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:06 pm

Were they, ostensibly, rioting about anything in particular?

Post by **rdhopeca** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 2:57 pm

Fist and Faith wrote:Were they, ostensibly, rioting about anything in particular?

Their right to congregate, throw rocks and bottles, and generally be idiots.

Post by **Zarathustra** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:19 pm

Ha, I remember addressing this in the militarization thread:

On Tue Mar 25, 2014, I wrote:
Keene, a small town in New Hampshire which had three homicides between 1999 and 2012, spent nearly $286,000 on an armoured personnel-carrier known as a BearCat. The local police chief said it would be used to patrol Keene’s “Pumpkin Festival and other dangerous situations”.
Damn, that sounds like one hell of a raucous pumpkin festival! I'm going to have to make a road trip this fall!

Looks like I spoke too soon. They needed that BearCat after all!

Post by **rdhopeca** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 4:12 pm

Zarathustra wrote:Ha, I remember addressing this in the militarization thread:
On Tue Mar 25, 2014, I wrote:
Keene, a small town in New Hampshire which had three homicides between 1999 and 2012, spent nearly $286,000 on an armoured personnel-carrier known as a BearCat. The local police chief said it would be used to patrol Keene’s “Pumpkin Festival and other dangerous situations”.
Damn, that sounds like one hell of a raucous pumpkin festival! I'm going to have to make a road trip this fall!
Looks like I spoke too soon. They needed that BearCat after all!

Money well spent, apparently. They even had helicopters out.

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:07 am

Zarathustra wrote:Ha, I remember addressing this in the militarization thread:
On Tue Mar 25, 2014, I wrote:
Keene, a small town in New Hampshire which had three homicides between 1999 and 2012, spent nearly $286,000 on an armoured personnel-carrier known as a BearCat. The local police chief said it would be used to patrol Keene’s “Pumpkin Festival and other dangerous situations”.
Damn, that sounds like one hell of a raucous pumpkin festival! I'm going to have to make a road trip this fall!
Looks like I spoke too soon. They needed that BearCat after all!

--A

Post by **Hashi Lebwohl** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:45 pm

We hardly ever get national news out of New Hampshire, making this story doubly important.

Druken revelers revel drunkenly.

My favorite person in the video is the policeman holding his shield upside down.

Post by **Cail** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:15 pm

Funny how the Brown supporters have pounced all over these white folks rioting. What a sad existence that the color of one's skin is all that matters.

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:32 am

how about charging each person arrested for the damage. make the bastards pay or serve time equal to the amount they owe.

Post by **Hashi Lebwohl** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 3:25 am

Did anyone damage anything? Did anyone loot?

If no, then nothing needs to be done and we should all encourage people to congregate whenever they feel like it as long as they don't get violent.

If they did then find the ones responsible and give them the usual "fullest extent of the law" treatment.

We don't gather in crowds in the streets enough in this country any more....

Post by **Savor Dam** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 3:57 am

When inebriated college students throw rocks and bottles, some damage is highly likely...although the distribution of that damage may differ from the original intent.

The lot at Keene may end up with convictions...but their convictions will never have the fortitude of the convictions behind the Hong Kong protesters.

There is difference between Doing It in the Road and Taking It to the Street.

Post by **Zarathustra** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:28 pm

They flipped a car over and danced on it. Yeah, I think there was some damage.

Post by **Vraith** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:59 pm

Hashi Lebwohl wrote:

We don't gather in crowds in the streets enough in this country any more....

Absolutely. I'd love more public crowds. Not just for political purposes, either. For things like this 'fest, concerts in the park, block parties, all kinds of things.

I wonder how many of those damn drunken college students actually threw bottles or whatever? I wonder how many of them flipped a car?

Incidents like this are NOT a sign that the nation is going to hell.
Banning events like this is NOT a solution...since there's barely even a problem.
And military hardware is just going to make things worse, not better.
[[though it is funny in its way that Z's thing kinda came true.]]

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:02 am

I have not seen the police response videos yet. please tell me they used tear gas, water cannons, riot batons, riot shields.

Post by **rdhopeca** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:07 am

sgt.null wrote:I have not seen the police response videos yet. please tell me they used tear gas, water cannons, riot batons, riot shields.

That's my understanding. The mob was tearing up street signs, setting fires, overturning cars, and throwing rocks and bottles. Damage indeed. All 100 yards from my parents' house.

Post by **Hashi Lebwohl** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:08 am

Vraith wrote: Absolutely. I'd love more public crowds. Not just for political purposes, either. For things like this 'fest, concerts in the park, block parties, all kinds of things.

I second this.

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Oct 23, 2014 3:57 am

and I'd love to get a counter-crowd together to club idiots who run riot.

Post by **[Syl]** » Thu Oct 23, 2014 5:04 pm

rdhopeca wrote:
sgt.null wrote:I have not seen the police response videos yet. please tell me they used tear gas, water cannons, riot batons, riot shields.
That's my understanding. The mob was tearing up street signs, setting fires, overturning cars, and throwing rocks and bottles. Damage indeed. All 100 yards from my parents' house.

Apparently, Rob, the people in your parents' neighborhood have an inferior culture that doesn't instill civic responsibility and respect for property rights. You sure you didn't grow up in a single-parent household?

Post by **rdhopeca** » Thu Oct 23, 2014 6:00 pm

[Syl] wrote:
rdhopeca wrote:
sgt.null wrote:I have not seen the police response videos yet. please tell me they used tear gas, water cannons, riot batons, riot shields.
That's my understanding. The mob was tearing up street signs, setting fires, overturning cars, and throwing rocks and bottles. Damage indeed. All 100 yards from my parents' house.
Apparently, Rob, the people in your parents' neighborhood have an inferior culture that doesn't instill civic responsibility and respect for property rights. You sure you didn't grow up in a single-parent household?

Most of the perpetrators are rumored to have come from out of town, or to be college kids who may or may not have been raised locally.

And no, I didn't grow up in a single parent household

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My hometown! College riots, shut down public event?

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