Nice, so anybody who has a suit on or is dressed nice is harrassed

[snooper2]

watching the live stream, just saw it twice in three minutes..

Last one a Big bald dude with a wool coat on and a tie I heard him say "Quit pointing at me, Fuck you" to some guy with a cardboard sign...


Now I can see why one of my co-workers who works right around the corner from there (walks to work everyday) is pissed off. He does marketing by the way, we have nothing to do with "wall street"...

[Scuba]

1. Lame attempt to smear OWS. n/t

[snooper2]

5. watch the live feed and see for yourself...shit, it's all saved online

http://www.ustream.tv/TheOther99

[girl gone mad]

23. Tell the whole story.

He asked the cops to pepper spray people. Oops.

[snooper2]

30. No, if you look at the time of the OP what I was mentioning was an hour ago

At a different intersection..

The pepper spray jackass was 15 min ago-

[girl gone mad]

31. I've seen lots of people in suits, none were harrassed.

Think you might be stretching the truth a tad.

[marmar]

2. That's the best you can do?

nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

51. Pretty lame, eh? Wrong side of history are these people who don't support

#OWS and spread bs about the protesters.

[TBF]

3. Which side are you on ...

Solidarity

http://youtu.be/xNUtJVTnX4k

(rebel diaz)

[Fumesucker]

4. Yes, harassment is only for poor, smelly, badly dressed people..

Silly protesters..

:evilgrin:

[HappyMe]

6. Yeah. I saw that too.

It seems that anybody that works in an office of any kind is 'the enemy'.

[lunatica]

14. Poor you!

I work in an office and it actually adds to my feelings of support for the OWS.

[HappyMe]

22. Poor me?

:shrug:

[snooper2]

7. Another guy trying to get through the barricades to go to work..

"Get out of my way!"

"occupiers - fuck you"

[HappyMe]

10. Good grief!

People with jobs are the enemy now. :crazy:

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[HappyMe]

25. .....

:eyes:

[TuxedoKat]

11. I think

FU is a natural response to someone saying, "Get out of my way!" "Excuse me" would get him to his destination faster.

[Javaman]

45. You're not from NYC, are you?

"fuck you" is pretty much the normal vernacular there.

I was born and raised there.

[sarcasmo]

8. Guess some people will never understand OWS.

[Javaman]

46. +1 nt

[Enrique]

9. they're just jealous

they wish they had nice clothes like your friends. :sarcasm:

[snooper2]

13. That's cute, but I'm just letting you know what the other 69% are saying

[Fawke Em]

16. The 69 percent are saying, "Oh God! Oh God!"

Sorry... couldn't resist. :evilgrin:

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[Bake]

40. So anyone who has a job is kissing overlord's ass?

That's what it sounds like you're saying.

Bake

[trumad]

24. you just played your card

[snooper2]

33. I don't have any cards, just a shitty headset and a wireless mouse

I did try to use this wireless keyboard but typing fast the delay sucks to bad between my fingers hitting keys and pixels showing up as letters on my screen :)

[myrna minx]

28. I thought it was 53%

:shrug:

[lunatica]

12. Oh poor little me!!!

I feel for you.

[snooper2]

26. don't feel for me, except it is a little chilly in Dallas today

[Modern_Matthew]

17. Yeah, marketing is a respectable line of work. Sorry for the inconvenience...

But my brothers and sisters are trying to change the world.

Thanks for your disconnected input.

[eShirl]

18. It's probably his attitude.

[girl gone mad]

20. It helps if you don't go up to the cops and say "Please pepper spray these people, officer."

Just saying.

[snooper2]

27. Yeah, that guy was a real prick

[randome]

21. Sure, 'harrassment' is silly.

But so what? The guy could have simply smiled and given a thumbs up to the people with the cardboard signs. There was no need to feel pissed off and say 'Fuck you'.

People need to learn to shrug off the little things.

[City Lights]

29. From your description I'd say the big bald dude seems a bit touchy.

Wah wah wah quit pointing at me wah wah wah.

[meegbear]

32. One of your co-workers was harrassed???1?!

OWS SUX!!1! SHUT 1T D0WN!!1

[mmonk]

34. Democracy can be messy at times.

[October]

35. I wish the OWS crowd would all dress in their 'finest' to confuse the cops. ;)

They wouldn't know who to arrest! lol!

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[snooper2]

38. Duck!

lettuce?

[HopeHoops]

37. Nah. I look like Tommy Chong but love wearing a 3-piece suit.

Sure, that's a little unusual, but I've always liked vests and whether I'm in jeans and a flannel shirt or a suit, I want a vest in the winter and sometimes wear one in the summer. They look great with a dress shirt and noose (excuse me, "tie").

[Lyric]

39. I just watched the livestream and saw the UStream journalist politely interviewing someone in a suit

Guess you're wrong.

:hi:

[Bluenorthwest]

41. That's funny! I almost always wear a suit or 'preppy casual' to

protests, for the impact of the clothing. Never been harassed (one r) not once in 30 years. Except by law enforcement, of course.
Anyone who has ever been on a picket line would see Big Bald Guy as a whining scab, and would expect to hear the taunts and whines of the scabs and sell outs. Goes with the territory, so let Big Bald express himself, it just proves the point of the protesters.
Oh, and marketing in and of itself can be one of the least ethical and most pernicious lines of work. It is all in how you do it and what you do it for. And you leave those details out, which in a marketer tends to indicate a lack of comfort with the details excluded.

[freshwest]

48. +1,000

[pipi_k]

42. That's the way it goes...

apparently.

People make assumptions based on appearance.


A guy could be dressed in suit and tie because he has to go to court or something. Or maybe he has an interview for a mail clerk's job.

If he's wearing a suit....OMG!!!! He just has to be one of the 1%!!!


Another assumption people make...it's OK to deface some large gas guzzling vehicle parked in the city because it just HAS to be owned by someone who actually lives in the city and doesn't even need to be driving it. I have a Hummer. I live in the woods on a dirt road. I do sometimes go into the city. So, without knowing the details, some asswipe is going to flatten my tires or key my doors because he thinks I'm just another city-dwelling (Republican) pig?

That's just as disgusting an attitude as the reverse one where people think just because a person is wearing jeans and boots, he's going to rip off everything in their fucking stores.

Or, just because they don't have a certain "look", they can't afford to shop anywhere but in the Bargain Basement.

People sit on their high horses thinking they don't judge others, but they really do.

[Bluenorthwest]

47. You are assuming that both parties were not doing theater...

and how odd to foist your paranoid imaginings of your Hummer being vandalized. That did not happen, did it, just a thing you fear. Trust me, dear, the vast majority simply laughs a derisive laugh at Hummer drivers.
If your precious HumVee military vehicle had actually been harmed, you might have a point, as it is, you just have a clown car.

[Javaman]

43. fail.

stop carrying the water, it's very unattractive.

[Marrah_G]

44. Oh cry me a fucking river

[fishwax]

49. that's not consistent with what I've seen n/t

[frylock]

50. they pointed at him?!!

oh, the humanity.

[redqueen]

52. OMG someone was RUDE?! In the OWS movement?!

Stop the presses!

Not only do the crowds at OWS demonstrations display the same human failings as other people (though obviously not quite as much as some whose football teams have lost, or won, or who aren't allowed to drink on their college campus anymore... but I digress)... anyway not only are they the same with respect to drugs and disorderliness as other people, but now you're telling me that some of THEM are also RUDE? Just like other people sometimes are?

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

This is the end. There is no hope for the movement. We have no halos. We are doomed.

[Tsiyu]

53. Cry me a river!!!!!!

At least he's not getting pummelled with batons or seared with pepper spray or knocked to the ground and arrested for exercising HIS rights!

At least HIS belongings are not ripped from him and thrown in dumpsters!

At least the business in which HE is engaged is conducted without police threats, incarceration or fines!

Your selective sympathy is noted...your sense of proportion is ridiculed.