A very stylish riot
I like this country. Sure, we get a bit smashy-smashy when we protest, but at least it is for a noble cause. Down with fees! Down with fascism! Down with war! As an American, I have learned to protest like the best of the British - I turn up and look a bit embarrassed, then eat a sausage sandwich before catching the train home. Power to the people!

In the United States, I had one single attempt at protesting Dow Chemical and their tendency to kill my friends and family with their dioxin river pollution (not even my sister turned up, and she was my pièce de résistance, seeing as she was all baldy cancer-y from the evil Dow Chemical.) However, I inadvertently found myself in one large protest-turned-riot.

No, the government wasn't involved. No, American lives would not be lost. No, it wasn't a battle of good against evil. Find out, they were protesting an alcohol ban at football tailgate parties. I was attending a wedding in the middle of this melee. As the fires were creeping ever-closer to the venue, we were evacuated into the madness. I stepped into the streets in my dress in heels just in time to see a crowd petrol bomb a police car. The police, not taking terribly kindly to such japes, responding by tear-gassing all of us. Windows were smashed, cars set alight, a Delorean was overturned...mind, I couldn't see any of it because I was sat on a curb in a very lovely riot-antithesis frock while my eyes burned out of my skull.

30-50,000 people turned up to protest fee rises. 10,000 people rioted at my University because we wanted to get drunk in a field. Suck on that, Daily Mail.
(TheSnark oh, c'mon, like you didn't see me coming, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 11:04, 3 replies)

Did it happen in Detroit?
Just wondered.
(BombayMick Dogs are better than cats, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 16:04, closed)

No.

(TheSnark oh, c'mon, like you didn't see me coming, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 16:39, closed)

If a DeLorean was involved
Then it must have been Hill Valley.

QED.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 18:05, closed)