Posted on 12/14/2005 7:45:06 PM PST by cf_river_rat
14 December 2005
It was only 30 degrees at high noon in Fayetteville today with a steady breeze, but a few loyal Freepers turned out at KFC on Owen Drive to defend our carnivorous culture against the anti-animal activists from PETA.
I (cf_river_rat) showed up before eleven o’clock, just as the PAID Peta deceivers were unloading their costumes and props. I went inside the restaurant and heard the employees discussing the Colonel-criticizers, who were gearing up in plain view through the window. The most notable quote overheard was “Don’t they (Peta) realize how pathetic they look out there?”
I found the manager and explained I was there to counter-protest. She told me “Keep it off our property. I just sent your friends out of our parking lot, you’d better go too.”, as she pointed to Peta’s van. I replied “Ma’am, I’m here on your side”. She scowled and said “What? You’re kidding.” After I showed her my signs and bumper stickers she said it would be fine if I stuck around until her superiors arrived, and they could decide my fate.
clyde asbury arrived next, and informed me we had been denied a permit because we didn’t apply twenty-four hours in advance. He went inside to order lunch, and I made some last-minute preparations for the FReep.
radiolady was next to arrive. Although I didn’t recognize her, I knew when she got out of her car she was here for the Peta propaganda production. It was obvious when she grabbed a scanner and camera before locking her car. She headed to the street where Peta was, and I falsely surmised she was with them. I considered informing management another lemming had arrived in KFC’s parking lot. I had worked up an appetite, so I went inside to join clyde.
While waiting to order some popcorn chicken I noticed radiolady ordering in the queue next to me. When I heard her order chicken I realized my mistake, and started a conversation. She joined clyde and me at our table and introduced herself by screen name, and we discussed strategy while eating KFC. We decided it would be fun to eat our lunch outside and watch the chicken cross the road, as was promised in Peta’s News Release
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Clyde couldn’t wait to eat some chicken, so he had an appetizer while we waited for the pretenders to set up their misleading circus act. |
At that point a regional supervisor had arrived and she approached our table. We shared our plans with her and were enthusiastically told we could set up our table on KFC’s property, right next to the sidewalk. How convenient. It seemed we wouldn’t need that permit after all.
We hurriedly deployed to the KFC lawn, carrying our assorted chicken delights with us. There were only 5 picketers on the sidewalk, and three of those were professional protesters, paid by Peta.
Useful idiots on the sidewalk, radiolady guarding the food from ravenous vegans, and cf_river_rat in back taunting the paid protesters.
One of the two unpaid kool-aid drinkers brought a preschool-aged child along to hold a sign. The herbivorous hypocrites know they can bring children to these events and having nothing to fear from peaceful counter-protesters. On the other hand, I have decided to leave my children at home until they are better able to defend themselves from the menace of cornered leftists.
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One of the unpaid demonstrators kept giving us a furtive sideways glance, so I decided to try easing his apparent mistrust and see if I could find a new friend. I needed a conversation starter, so I grabbed the photo album I carry in my car for such occasions. I introduced myself and showed him some of my favorite pictures, but he was not very friendly.
cf-river_rat trying to make a new friend
These are some of the pictures he saw.
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Some of the gracious KFC employees brought out some more chicken and placed it on our table. It would soon be too cold to eat, so clyde wasted no time. In between bites he asked the chicken when it would cross the road, as promised in the press release. In addition to having broken legs and wings the poor chickadee must’ve also been deaf and dumb. We never heard a “peep” out of her.
Looking at that big chicken made clyde hungry.
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As I continued to share my photos with the scowler, his paid handler asked me to stop blocking his sign from traffic. I declined to honor her request. |
Radiolady had to return to the station, so she left about 11:30. Eventually KFC’s corporate security/risk management officer arrived. He was professional and courteous to all parties, and asked the paid protesters to refrain from impeding the flow of traffic in and out of the private KFC parking lot. They promised to abide, but moments later one of the grifters flagged a car entering the parking lot and stepped onto the private property to hand the driver a piece of propaganda. He was then guilty of trespassing and interfering with traffic, so management called the FPD.
It was now high noon, and it looked like a showdown. Clyde had to leave, and while he said his good-byes a lurker friend of mine John arrived. Cool, I had someone to watch my back – not that this crew was much of a threat. The hunter-haters showed no sign of leaving even with the threat of law enforcement involvement, so John grabbed the dry-erase board and scrawled “I love animals – I eat them and wear their skins” on it. Being single, he naturally proceeded down the sidewalk to chat up the lovely lass who was wearing the “bodyscreen” (lcd screen/DVD player in a harness). She is the “paid handler” in the photo above.
She was not impressed with his sign, and the law had been called. After a quick huddle the motley crew of anti-fishing thespians started to pack their gear. I remarked “The chicken didn’t cross the road AS PROMISED, and you’re not staying until one o’clock AS PROMISED. I guess PETA LIES. They were long gone by 12:15. John and I joked with the security officer for a while, mainly about the hasty departure of our out-classed opponents.
NC Ping?
Good job.
Good news!
Ha ha ha! You are COOL.
I read the press release. Why do these left-wing kooks always feel the need to list the losers that support them?
Very good work, thanks.
Did Giselle really say that?
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Nice job! I especially like that pic of you eating chicken and holding a sign next to that pathetic looking thing.
This is the second KFC anti-PETA freep I've read about, and they look like a lot of fun. The PETA creeps seem to fold fairly easily once they're confronted.
"This bird was a 25 pounder! The taxidermist did a great job on him. And these two, I got them in one shot! And check out these fish. What a great day that was!..."
Nice article and well written.
Naw, ..... but it would be whole lot better if it was. /;-)
Thanks! That is clyde asbury in the pic, I'm the one with the camo hat.
HONK!!
I LOVED the fish and bird photos you showed the PETAs! Good work!
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