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Fifth Column
Protester picks wrong spot to lock himself
2003-03-19
Another Great Moment in Civil Disobedience. News Flash from Olympia, WA.... Home town of Rachel Corrie. Maybe it's the water?
OLYMPIA -- A man spent hours chained to the wrong building Tuesday in an ill-planned effort to protest war with Iraq, police said.
Another Evergreen College alum perhaps?
Jody Mason padlocked himself to an entrance of the Washington State Grange building at 924 Capitol Way S., thinking it was a sub-office of the U.S. Department of Energy. Grange employees found him about 11:45 a.m. Tuesday and asked what he was doing.
"And what the hell do you think you're doin', Beauzeau?"
He told employees he'd chained himself to the building in civil disobedience Monday night after listening to President Bush's televised ultimatum to Saddam Hussein.
No Blood for the Washington State Grange. Dude. Or, man.
Mason padlocked one end of the chain around his neck and the other to a door, which opens to a bottom-floor office. He told onlookers he was protesting Bush's foreign and domestic policies. He had affixed a sign to the building reading, "Reduce Deficit." Grange employees explained that he was at the wrong building. The Grange is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that advocates for residents in rural areas.
...and usually doesn't have a lot of dealings with Idio-Americans.
"I don't think that's ever happened before," said Larry Clark, Grange communications director. Police officers used heavy-duty bolt cutters to free Mason. "He asked for help because he didn't have the key," Olympia police Cmdr. Steve Nelson said.
This just gets better and better...
Mason wasn't arrested and won't face any charges. Officers let him go and didn't take his name, Nelson said. "He was our first protester since President Bush's speech," Nelson said.
...and will probably be one of the stupider ones we'll see.
"Just go home and sleep it off, okay?"
Mason, who identified himself to a photographer, said he had looked up the Department of Energy in the phone book. The phone book, under the Department of Energy, lists a Bonneville Power Administration Office at 924 Capitol Way S.
Somewhere, the Chicago 7 are spinning in their graves...
The ones who're dead, anyway...
Posted by:tu3031

#3  Somewhere, the Chicago 7 are spinning in their graves...
The ones who're dead, anyway...

...the ones that are alive are probably desperately clawing at the insides of their coffins.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-03-19 22:10:50  

#2  Gonna be a tough year for the Darwin Awards at this rate. So many candidates...
Posted by: Dar Steckelberg   2003-03-19 16:23:31  

#1  The photo with the story I read clearly show signage on the building. Obviously he cannot read.

Plus, a protester fell of the Golden Gate Bridge hanging a banner this afternoon. Another first time meeting with Isacc Newton.
Posted by: Chuck   2003-03-19 16:00:05  

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