[NormsRevenge]

I like the sound of sprinklers in the night, it sounds like.. victory.

[Abathar]

Pour some Ivory soap into the sprinkler system first.

[NormsRevenge]

chukk chukk chukk chukk ..

[rogue yam]

Sprinklers, good. Sprinklers and clubs, better.

[Abathar]

In all honesty I bet they look at this as a challenge and will do it anyway so they can brag how “The Man” couldn’t keep them down.

[oh8eleven]

IIRC, Chicago's 1968 "love-in" started in a park.

[N. Theknow]

A college-age protest group that wants to camp overnight in City Park during the Democratic National Convention next month is going to have to find another place to sleep.

Oh, NO!

The water will cause their make-up to run.

Will this turn into another

TENT STATE MASCARA?

[Red Boots]

Right now, we don't even let the Boy Scouts sleep in the parks. It isn't political. It doesn't have anything to do with any message or anybody. It's just that we don't do that," she said.

I'll bet they let homeless people sleep in the parks all the time.

[Paleo Conservative]

The mayor also told Rosen that the city might turn on the sprinklers if the protesters don't abide by Denver's 11 p.m. curfew.

Damned! I wish he hadn't warned them.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

??? They would just break/block the sprinklers and cause localized flooding like the morons they are.

[The Worthless Miracle]

You all know that this would be, in reality, 40% protest and 60% “excuse to get high/drunk”, right? lol

[gridlock]

This is a no-brainer. The best way to maintain control is to clear the parks out on a daily basis. If the people are allowed to camp there, there will be no effective way for the police to maintain control of the parks. If they lose control of the parks, they lose control of the city.

NYC went through this in 2004. The City denied requests to camp in Central Park during the RNC, and the protesters howled at the grave injustice, and threated to sleep there anyway. For the weeks preceding the convention, there was a constant drumbeat of how hundreds of thousands of people were going to show up to camp in the park, and there was nothing the NYPD could do about it.

When the Republicans arrived for the convention, maybe 20 people refused to abide by the curfew, and they were promptly arrested.

[iowamark]

Forget the sprinklers, give them the crap cannon.

[Red Boots]

Madison, who lives across the street from the park, said one of her concerns is that an influx of people will descend on Denver to participate in a big sleepover. "We could just get a lot of people just showing up to camp," she said. "People from out of state, if they found out that we were going to open up free camping in the park, would say, 'Hey, we can actually go to the DNC and stay for free. We don't have to pay $500 a night.'.

" The real reason: greed. The city doesn't want to forgo the massive lodging tax they've put in place for all the lucky delegates. They need it to offset the money they've already given away by letting all the DNC people have free gas and car whashes.

[JennysCool]

I have a feeling the old hippies’ “second childhood” has just about run its course, like all fads do in America.

An annoying, overhyped DNC should seal the deal.

[Centurion2000]

Reload the water main for the sprinkler with muriatic acid / water mix. Might actually get those smelly hippies cleaned up.

[doug from upland]

I hope that Hillary’s Menopausal Minions will go nuts in Denver.

[LiberConservative]

Mike Rosen was probably on the top of his game talking about this. Few conservatives are more fun or make more sense than Mike.

[keepitreal]

"Right now, we don't even let the Boy Scouts sleep in the parks. It isn't political. It doesn't have anything to do with any message or anybody. It's just that we don't do that," she said.

Baloney. If you go to Civic Center Park any night you will see the homeless sleeping there. Heck, they sleep there even during the day.

[Darth Hillary]

A tape loop of the anointed one chanting 'Yes We Can' will send them all into a fainting spell.

Like young cheerleaders, damp from a thrill running up their legs.