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What’s the story behind this video?
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Doesn’t seem to be much of a story.
The police were there doing their job and were accosted by troublemakers who prevented them from doing their job as efficiently as possible, so they asked the trouble makers to stop or else they would be arrested. The girls did not comply and were arrested. Stupid girls. The end.
That’s two asumptions in a row, or are these facts?
It seems it was at the G20.
I count one girl, and two arrests that may or may not be related to this encounter.
But the Toronto Police spokesman -how creative- declined to comment.
Yeah right… and a tall black male and muscular police officer in the stength of his life, who can’t deal with soap and his deliberate rights -or better the right of others to blow bubbles-… yes, he ain’t stupid, but is very clever…
I can see why he isn’t in the riot-police squad…
Anyway like I expected it seems the court laughed the case away.
Too bad they did not support the police in making the streets more safe.
I expect you’ve never been attacked by vicious bubble blowers before then. They hurt worse than pillows in my opinion.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/7930250/belarus-cops-crack-down-on-pillow-fight
“Officials refused to comment on the detentions.”
I can see a trend developing here…
Agreed. I wonder what would happen to someone who throws fluffy objects?
fluffy handcuffs?
Can’t really tell. Whoever cut the video is certainly sympathetic to the arrested girl. “Moments later” translates to me as “we didn’t want to show you since it doesn’t support our agenda.” Why leave out the critical moments before her arrest, which would presumably explain the reason for the arrest?
If I was a cop and some girl started blowing bubbles in my face and then demanding I “respect” her, I don’t think I’d take too kindly to her, either. She wants respect, but gives none. She’s not making a political point, she’s just one individual being a jerk to another individual.
Justice will not occur until those girls are tickled with feathers!
Bully tactics. Plain and simple. AT 53 I’ve seen it too many times. Yes, technically he was professional. The real question is did he neutralize the situation or escalate it.
He didn’t give her a choice he gave her an ultimatum. Big difference.
And since when is blowing soap bubbles a crime? Assault? Give me a break. Her crime was not doing what he wanted her to do.
I notice his little blond sidekick wasn’t saying anything. I got the impression she was not in agreement.
I will sit on the fence
In general I side with the concept that bubble blowing is harmless. However, at hippy demonstrations, people with access to LSD and DMSO (a transdermal solvent), are quite common. You think that bubble looks all rainbowy now ?, wait until 20 minutes after it lands on your face.
As a hippy with some experience, sure, you can dose someone with LSD by having a bubble land on their skin. I am not knocking LSD, just pointing out that it is one of the most potent drugs. One bubble can carry a full dose, and if it was made with DMSO, it will go right through your skin and send you tripping.
As much as I love hippies, and I am not opposed to LSD, I do see hippy bubbles as potentially a way to administer the drug. A legitimate concern to a riot cop IMHO. The cops won’t say so because they don’t want to give people the idea to do it, but are likely aware of the possibility.
Are you serious? I’m gonna have to research that, it sounds waaay too unlikely.
DMSO is legal, and can be bought cheap from web sites. About a minute after swiping a bit on your arm, you taste garlic in your mouth ( I have done this). Not really considered toxic itself, it’s ability to go through the skin, carrying drugs with it, is a fact.
LSD, although not poisonous (no known fatal dose threshold), has an effective “trippy dose” , of 1/ 10,000 of a gram. A quite reasonable load for a bubble.
Or underwear (like at a Tom Jones concert). Or flowers. Yes, maybe they need to drop the line somewhere.
I slightly have a seem feeling that that may be truth but it remains an asumption, maybe it was because it simply just wasn’t catched on camera. Regardless, IF the situation truly escalated because of this, I have a suggestion where it started to go wrong…!
Nah, I don’t have real convince her intention was the hurt or even upsad someone. Based on the tone in her voice I’d say it was friendly fire.
And actually it was “friendly fire”: the girl was a volunteer medical assistant.
Which is to me another indication she wasn’t planning on a brutal violence (though yes, it may be clever coverup).
Same feeling here. When she looked up to her collegua she was smiling and happy, untill she heard what he was saying and she put her serious face on.
Bytheway, if she felt her health was under attack, or she couldn’t do her job ‘efficiently’ then why didn’t she put on the transparent glasses that she had mounted on her cap?
So yes, I think the girls we’re pretty much OK with eachother…
As long as the line is drawn at underwear. And by ‘at’ I mean ‘before’. 
Well, I never. Should have some fun with the bubble blower when the little kids come around then. 
Hippies have general rules about LSD
Giving someone LSD, without telling them, is considered a very dark sin in hippy world. I would never do this. It is considered evil to throw someone unawares into acid world.
The CIA and the police state know all about the DMSO-LSD -bubble connection. The CIA invented it, not the hippies. Hippies will not give you LSD, you must take it after getting it from a hippie. The CIA thinks it’s cool to give it to you without telling you. Hippies will take acid, knowingly. Never dose anyone by surprise. You take acid, you are not given it. Hippy rule #1, you don’t just dose people. People take acid themselves, they are not given it.
Man, that’s harsh. At least the hippies have their priorities straight, although in the movies the CIA are always arseholes, even in Get Smart.