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Sit-ins. Walk-outs. Smashing up the headquarters of a major political party. Chaining yourself to the railings outside your local sweet shop because they changed Marathons to Snickers. How have you stuck it to The Man?

(, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 12:24)
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Fluffy animals & scary animals
Way back in the mid-1990s, some of the wrinklier members may remember the animal export protests - various ports were blockaded to prevent truckloads of live animals being exported to Europe in appalling conditions. Well, I live near one of these ports, and my girlfriend at the time was an animal rights activist, so we went along.

It was quite fun, at first. The local Sussex police were friendly enough, and were clearly aware that, unusually, the crowd had a good proportion of grannies, kids and nice, normal people. Oh, there were a few rent-a-mob types, and of course some ALF wannabe terrorists, but by and large it was a peaceful, and dare I say it effective protest: the police ensured that the trucks got through, but the protest was made and the media reported it.

After a couple of weeks of this, though, the Powers That Be decided to ramp it up. The local plod were replaced with Metropolitan Police Riot Squad types, bussed in from London. These guys were brutal, and clearly very happy to have a ruck with the unwashed lefties. I saw one girl elbowed aside so hard she was knocked unconscious on the kerb. The Metrocops had also, of course, removed their uniform numbers, so we couldn't report the bastards.

BUT they'd not thought it through, had they? These guys were brought in from London, and put up at the local hotels for the duration. Turns out that quite a few of the hotels' junior kitchen staff were students, exactly the kind who also attended the protests, or knew people who did. I'd hate to think how much spit, snot and piss those cops ingested during the course of their stay in sunny Brighton...
(, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 13:20, 5 replies)
Don't
forget spunk!
(, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 13:52, closed)
That's possible, but
A quick gob in the soup is probably easier to manage that actually knocking one out in the kitchen without anyone noticing. Then again, I'm not a teenager any more, so perhaps I've forgotten how quickly it can be done...
(, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 14:05, closed)
Length?
When I was 17 - about 30 seconds :)
(, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 0:21, closed)
With the right material in the wank bank
I could of probably bashed one out in 15 seconds without distractions. Shame you weren't working with someone in their early teens.
(, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 17:41, closed)
Don't blame you
For protesting in the slightest. I think that spitting in peoples food is a cowardly form of protest though. Knowing all the hotel food ive ever eaten, not sure anyone would have noticed either. Did the student chefs use the master room key to toothbrush their arses too? Mind you, taking your cop barcode off your uniform is pretty cowardly as well, so point taken. But why drop to their level, especially when your victory could only be labelled 'pyrrhic'?
(, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 21:43, closed)

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