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| 2010-11-15 | |
| Members of a Kansas church that protests at military funerals may have found themselves in the wrong town Saturday. Shortly after finishing their protest at the funeral of Army Sgt. Jason James McCluskey of McAlester, a half-dozen protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., headed to their minivan, only to discover that its front and rear passenger-side tires had been slashed. To make matters worse, as their minivan slowly hobbled away on two flat tires, with a McAlester police car following behind, the protesters were unable to find anyone in town who would repair their vehicle, according to police. The minivan finally pulled over several blocks away in a shopping center parking lot, where AAA was called. AAA members should call AAA and ask why they allow Westboro as a member.
Picket that Wal*Mart. WM customers won't want their cars serviced in unclean bays. Even before the protesters discovered their damaged tires, they faced off with a massive crowd of jeering and taunting counterprotesters at Third Street and Washington Avenue, two blocks from the First Baptist Church, where the soldier's funeral was held. Miller estimated that crowd to number nearly 1,000 people, and they not only drowned out the Westboro protesters with jeers, but with raucous chants of "USA, USA." A few motorcyclists interspersed among the crowd also revved up their engines to muffle the protests. More than two dozen law-enforcement officers - state troopers, sheriff's deputies and city police - formed a security cordon around the Westboro protesters. "We're here to protect everyone," Miller said. | |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #28 Or lithium grease. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-11-15 20:33 |
| #27 How about putting oilfield pipe dope under the door handles. From the average person's perspective it looks like a practical joke, which it is, and it could take weeks before the compound is fully cleaned. Cops get a good laugh and so do citizens. Pipe dope FTW. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-11-15 20:30 |
| #26 Anarchist cookbook is what some old radicals would use (but be careful, a lot of the stuff they have in there is either ver dangerous or doesn't work, and no real warning as to which) |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-11-15 20:01 |
| #25 Deacon Blues: 'Nother CIA trick is to save the table sugar for wet concrete. Just throw a 10# sack into the mixer, and the concrete will set normally, but it will be water soluble. As concrete sets, it forms long chains of molecules that make it durable. Sugar upsets this process, forming much smaller chains. Modern technology is ridiculously dependent on concrete. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-15 18:57 |
| #24 I'm sure the crime will be thoroughly investigated (*snicker*), but these kinds of cases are hard to crack. No fingerprints, no witnesses, no informants, crime lab is on vacation this month, and so on. |
| Posted by: Mike 2010-11-15 17:20 |
| #23 I really like AH9418's suggestion - no one actually touches their vehicle. There is no damage to the vehicle. No one touches the Westboro pukes. Yet, they can't get out, they can't move without running someone down. They can't open the doors. If they call the police, the police should be very busy guarding the funeral, and it would take them several hours or longer to get there. And, when they do, how can they force the people surrounding the van to move? Those people aren't doing anything to the pukes - they aren't even touching them. Beautiful. This would work in cooperation with the motorcycle clubs, who could park their bikes right next to the van so the pukes couldn't get out - I like it. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2010-11-15 17:14 |
| #22 Here's one of the posts on that blog: ThatÂ’s a fine start, but donÂ’t forget sugar in the gas tank, motor oil in the wiper fluid container, potato in the tailpipe, rattlesnake under the driverÂ’s seat, dead fish under the passenger seatÂ… |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-11-15 16:40 |
| #21 I think a couple of slashed tires is a pretty mild and reasonable response to these loons' provocations. They just won't take "no" for an answer. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-11-15 16:32 |
#20 well crazyfool lets send them ovber too pakistain or saudi arabia and see if their tires just get slashed there.Or Iran or Somalia they like too throw rocks alot.
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| Posted by: chris 2010-11-15 16:25 |
| #19 Chris - I think that is a bit extreme. It'll make martyrs out of them and not make a good example. People will start to feel sympathy for them... Besides, what do you think horsewhips were invented for? (that and Tar and Feathers) |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-11-15 15:54 |
| #18 I expect that the Westboro people would have already bugged their vehicle with audio & video recording of events in its vicinity. Perhaps they will be able to identify & sue the perps for some kind of tort. Setting up a vehicle to do this is trivially easy. What would be illegal / litigable about a crowd simply surrounding and boxing in the Westboro vehicle so that it not only could not move, but also that the doors could not even be opened? Just keep the evildoers sitting inside until they foul themselves. Those protesting the protestors could work in shifts to keep the Westboro crowd confined, perhaps for days. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-15 15:27 |
| #17 I found one pic. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2010-11-15 15:10 |
| #16 I love happy stories. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-11-15 15:09 |
| #15 I was hoping to find video of the van limping away from the protest. My heart goes out to the family. They has got to be a way to stop this nonsense. If you can't should fire in a crowded theater, you shouldn't be allowed to start a riot at a military funeral. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2010-11-15 15:08 |
| #14 Glenmore, I wasn't advocating slashing their tires or any other kind of vandalism. By the way, Myth Busters busted the bit about sugar in a gas tank. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2010-11-15 15:08 |
| #13 Back in the WWII days, these people having slashed tires for protesting a soldier's funeral would have been the best they could have hoped for. At least the van and its occupants didn't dissappear after leaving the city limits. |
| Posted by: Unolusing the Full Bosomed4806 2010-11-15 14:05 |
| #12 moose, that's nobel prize territory. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-11-15 13:38 |
| #11 If you want to do a pro job on a vehicle, the CIA used a trick of removing spark plugs, then pouring a half cup of gunpowder into the cylinder, and replacing the plug. The damage to the engine is special. My favorite is a pint of linseed oil in the gas tank, which requires every millimeter of every engine part to be hand scrubber with a toothbrush and solvent to remove the tar. But a true champion that causes no damage at all, except to the sanity of the driver, is to put an unrolled condom in the gas tank. It slowly swims to the gas intake, clogging it, and the engine just stops. But that frees the condom from the intake, so it floats away, and the engine starts right up again. Totally unpredictable, and utterly maddening. Few mechanics will figure it out until thousands of dollars have been spent. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-15 13:19 |
| #10 Deacon - what about if they're in Boston or San Francisco? Would slashing tires THERE be OK? Or would you have to sugar their gas tank? Epoxy their door locks? Sand in their crankcase? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-11-15 13:10 |
| #9 Don't slash their tires. They've been in town too long already. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2010-11-15 12:33 |
| #8 Its not a church, its a law firm. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-11-15 12:07 |
| #7 See, Doc, that's why loosening the valve stems is the way to go - no damage, just the delay of refilling the tires would make them late to the target funeral. Though soaping Westboro Baptist on their vehicles is also appealing. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-11-15 11:56 |
| #6 I can't endorse vandalism. Non-violent confrontation is the better way to go. Block these idiots, keep them as far away as possible from the funerals, and make enough noise to drown them out. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-11-15 11:35 |
| #5 Slashing tires is wrong. When it comes to the Westburo Traveling Freak Show, I'd err on the side of making an exception, myself. What about discretely pouring sugar into the gas tank? |
| Posted by: Sgt.Mom 2010-11-15 11:13 |
| #4 ...They were supposed to be here at FT Jackson a few months back, then at the very last minute they backed out. Local rumor has it that a couple of the local cycle clubs (VERY heavily made up of vets, especially from 'Nam) made it clear that their BS wouldn't be tolerated and that the Columbia PD basically said, "Well, we might just be real busy that day...could be a while before we get to you." They're bullies hiding behind Scripture and the First Amendment. They need to be dealt with as bullies should. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2010-11-15 10:52 |
| #3 Slashing tires is wrong. I'll make an exception here, except I would rather have the best of both worlds. How about loosen the valve stems and also gouge a deep groove in the sidewall near the valve stem? Makes for maximum inconvenience for those WBC idiots both ways. The only thing they could have done better would have been to spray paint "Westboro Baptist Church" on the side so even AAA and Walmart wouldn't want to touch them. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-11-15 10:52 |
| #2 Slashing tires is wrong. Loosen the valve stems instead. At the rest stop BEFORE they get to the targetted funeral. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-11-15 09:44 |
| #1 First time in my life I wanted to buy a beer for a guy who slashed tires. |
| Posted by: penguin 2010-11-15 09:24 |