Kevin's Watch

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

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

Were they, ostensibly, rioting about anything in particular?

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.]]

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

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.

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.

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

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?

[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