CA: People living, sleeping in median near tree grove angers UC Berkeley (.. "People's Park 2.")

Oakland Tribune ^ | 8/5/08 | Kristin Bender

[thefactor]

you reep what you sow.

[GWMcClintock]

Liberals loathing liberal behavior. Call Guinness, because this has to be a record setter!

[calex59]

Yes, they taught all these jerks that private property means nothing if someone else has an agenda! Now it is their property being screwed with and they don’t like it. TS. What I don’t understand is why don’t they just arrest the idiots and have done with it. I mean they taser people with broken backs, and taser 12 year old kids, but they can’t taser these idiots?

[John123]

The university is allowing one bag of food and water to go up daily.

Hate to be Mr. Obvious here... but why?

[Paleo Conservative]

Future Darwin Award winners?

[wideawake]

"We are careful and we are respectful of the (neighbors) and the large forces in the world, such as the trucks and cars and buses."

Yikes. Have another toke - you still may have a few braincells left.

[bicyclerepair]

WATER CANNON!

[tumblindice]

Set up a jobs fair booth in their midst.
They’ll run away like little gurls.

[Thrownatbirth]

and eating, making art, drumming and monitoring the police 24 hours a day

Yikes! Hippies with scanners.

[cdbull23]

I work literally a couple hundred feet from here, and yeah, it's pretty bad. I've driven past a couple times, and the median is cluttered with hippies, tents, signs, trash, etc.

It's funny, these people are probably doing more damage to the "environment" than if they would've just stayed home and kept their mouths shut.

[BillyA]

Are they FINALLY saying, “we’ve had enough”?

The Hippie Easement has ended?

Sure.

[Flycatcher]

Neither the Berkeley Police Department nor the university police chose to remove the group; it seems neither wants to be the bad guys.

The police don't want to do their job for fear of being the bad guys??!!

That pretty much sums up the whole of Bezerkeley in a nutshell.

[Alouette]

Call Eric Cartman.

[Blood of Tyrants]

A few gallons of Roundup sprayed on the trees will make their tree sitting moot.

[Designer]

"Hate to be Mr. Obvious here... but why?"

Mr. Designer doesn't know, either, but if he had to guess, he would guess that it might be some kind of "trade-off" arrangement.

ie: The university allows them food and water in exchange for disposing of waste in a sanitary manner.

[firewalk]

the large forces in the world
such as the trucks and cars and buses."

made me laugh...

[Designer]

"WATER CANNON!"

Almost any other town but Berzerkley, and this would have been taken care of long ago.

[dljordan]

“Yikes! Hippies with scanners. “

Unless they’ve got big bucks for a scanner that will decrypt the Tac channels they ain’t gonna hear anything but stray dog and drunk traffic.

[Bitsy]

the large forces in the world
May the forces be on you....