Cops vs. Bros A historical time line (of Orange County's annual white riots)

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

I posted this as a reply in another thread, but I thought it was worth it's own thread. As an unapologetic born and bread Orange County douchebag, who indeed lived right on the beach until my parents moved inland because they thought it wasn't safe... there is nothing in the world I hate more than these guys.



http://www.ocweekly.com/2014-07-24/news/us-open-of-surfing-time-line/

Aug. 31, 1986: Drunk bros start running through a crowd of onlookers at the OP Pro Surf Contest, ripping bikini tops off various gals. Fighting ensues, cops are quickly overwhelmed, and the crowd topples some lifeguard towers and burn a couple of city police cruisers. The cops, who put framed photographs of the flaming vehicles in their headquarters, vow never to let that happen again.

July 4, 1993: Bros take over Huntington Beach's increasingly rowdy Independence Day Celebration. They decide to celebrate America's birth by burning furniture on street corners. Police, five of whom are injured in clashes with the bros, arrest 40 of them.

July 4, 1995: Having apparently taken the previous year off, the bros come back to burn some couches on the street. This time, cops arrest 100 of them. The police get sued for brutality after wading into a crowd with batons.

July 4, 1996: The cops did some research and discovered a loophole in a long-forgotten ordinance allows them to arrest people drinking beer in their front yards, unless those yards are surrounded by fences. Hundreds of people, many of them bros, are arrested and forced to spend the night in a Guantanamo Bay-type open holding cell, minus the portable toilets. Fewer couches catch fire this year. Yay, freedom!

[IDemo]

1. Summer, 1975:

IDemo and hundreds of other partiers are routinely rousted by HBPD in cars and helicopters, move to another apartment complex, lather, rinse, repeat. I don't know if anyone was referred to as 'Bros' back then, but the rowdy element definitely made things interesting at times.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

2. I think men have been calling one another "bro" for at least a century

I think "bro" as shorthand for douchebag is a significantly more modern usage.

My parents called them a lot of things, most of them would get this post hidden.