Posted on 08/04/2006 1:57:10 PM PDT by Citizen SMASH
CODE PINK continues to piss off regular people with obnoxious media stunts across the nation. This time, it was shutting down gas stations in Kansas City.
Eyewitness (and left-wing blogger) Alan Scherstuhl provides the disapproving play-by-play:
On July 21, the Strip watched as a dozen demonstrators met in a parking lot at Westport Road and Southwest Trafficway. "This action's an experiment," Lindsey Walker told the Strip before handing out pink tops to anyone not dressed for the event. "We're not after agitation or confrontation. This is a distraction from that normal flow, that repetition of getting gas and not thinking about the consequences."
But "agitation and confrontation" is exactly what they found, according to Scherstuhl's version of events:
The operation: Bike up to pumps, wrap a pink trash bag around the handle and prevent customers from filling up — for a minute or two. Sarah Finken would lead chants with her megaphone while others would wave banners. Tiffany Coleman laid out the ground rules. "Be nice to people. Block the pump with your bike but do not get confrontational. If they [customers] get anything more than verbal with you, leave."The first target was the QuikTrip at Westport Road and Mercier, already a cauldron of circling cars and surly customers.
Seven bicycles rolled to the pumps at 5:16, inciting a couple of anti-war honks. Out came the trash bags. To stunned motorists, the activists said things such as "no gas today," "keep driving" and "we're taking over."
With a feathery boa wrapped around her Peaches T-shirt, Finken commandeered the easternmost pumps. She kicked off the chants with "money for health care!"
"Stop the war!" called the rest of the Code Pinkers.
Finken: "Funding for education!"
Code Pinkers: "Stop the war!"
The reaction was predictable.
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The reaction was predictable:
At Finken's pump, a Dick Cheney look-alike in shorts, sandals and an apoplectic rage, leapt from his red Dodge van and pushed her aside.
"I'm sorry, we're taking over right now," she said.
"Move the f@#$ out of my way!" He dragged her bike from the pump.
"Gas station's closed!" Finken shouted into her megaphone.
Cheney: "Don't f@#$ing do that!"
Finken's megaphone squawked with feedback. Cheney made a move for it, grabbing Finken's wrist, but then backed off a bit, yelling, "We'll see about a f@#$ing war! You're on private property, you a@#$%^&!"
Finken let him pump his gas but continued to chant.
Cheney finally lost it completely when he spotted Code Pinker Andrew Badgerow snapping away with a digital camera. Cheney upended a bike and seized Badgerow's camera, which he threw to the pavement, shattering it.
By this time, Coleman was calling for an evacuation.
Probably the only smart decision she made all day.
What will Code Pink do for an encore? Storm Donald Rumsfeld's house? Disrupt foreign heads of state when they address joint sessions of Congress? Taunt wounded soldiers outside military hospitals?
Oh, wait -- they've already done all those things.
Maybe Code Pink should just go for broke and join forces with the Fred Phelps crowd. I can just imagine the posters now:
"God Loves the Troops, Hates the Gays."
"God Hates Bush"
"Thank God for Maimed Soldiers."
Come to think of it, that last sign has already been used by the Phelps crowd.
Maybe they could trade sign ideas with Code Pink.
Not much difference between the two groups, when you think about it.
"Half the QuikTrip customers: F@#$ you!"
Common sense would tell you that customers would respond to this foolishness that way.....
I bet it would be difficult to see a small bike behind the wheel of my SUV.....at least that what I would tell the judge...
Aaaah, what a great Friday afternoon read!
I keep waiting for the nutcase PETA women to appear naked at my butcher shop.....darn.
sounds like when it got difficult code pink cut and ran?
deja vu.
yea, doesn't sound like they got the pics they wanted either since their cameraman accidentally dropped his digital and it unexpectly broke apart upon hitting the ground..:-)
I'm surprised that no CPers were "accidentally" doused with gasoline.
"Cheney upended a bike and seized Badgerow's camera, which he threw to the pavement, shattering it. "
Does this mean we aren't going to see any picture on Code Pinko's website?
Aww. Shucks!
Hmmmmmm.....would shutting down stations include the Citgo chain owned by Venezuala? They love Hugo C.
"Does this mean we aren't going to see any picture on Code Pinko's website?"
LOL! Photos unlikely to appear there. I notice that their Walter Reed Hospital protests get VERY little mention at their website(s) any more
Carefull what you wish for!
To whomever this "Cheney" fellow is,
Bravo, sir! Bravo!
Wherever you are, please join us!
Smashing cameras, tossing bicycles, getting right back in Code Pinko's ugly faces,
This is shot heard round the world stuff!
Carefull what you wish for!"
Yeah....with my luck, they'll be those that would belong in the pork section....
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