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I understand. With the state of the world at the moment, if you didn’t laugh I’d weep.
And lately all I do is cry.
The world has always been weepworthy.
Yes, we need some levity, and in that vein, I had a good laugh Friday night. Here’s my FB post about it (it was late so all bets are off for construction/style/grammar, etc.):
I’m not going to comment on the current protests either for or against, but I’d like to point out that a successful protest probably takes planning and knowing the venue. For example-
if you hold one on a Friday night on Fremont St. in Las Vegas on the first day of a huge festival for locals, you’ve just become as invisible as a homeless person. Yelling, being disruptive and laying down in the middle of the street...well we figure you’re just another drunk tourist, so that’s the answer to the Livestream.com question, “why isn’t anybody paying attention?”
Also, choosing your subsequent march route to “close down The Strip” it might be wise to choose the route that isn’t the one we use about once a month for a parade or 5k run. Our police have got crowd control for that route down pat. And all the locals know not to cross the strip- that traffic never moves anyway. I won’t even cross it to shop. So that’s why we all seemed so “peaceful” and no one cared. The tourists assume, as do the locals that live here, that it’s just crazy, drunken, holidaying people. I’ve watched a lot of Livestreams of protests and our police looked just plain bored. They seemed to have quite the “whatever...,” attitude.
After laughing at the protesters a while I finally just became embarrassed for them. At least it was an entertaining evening for me. “Everyone here seems so peaceful. I don’t think we can get them stirred up...they don’t seem to care.” Pretty sure most of us just thought it was another Friday night festival.
I’ve lived in Las Vegas for 10 years and I think I’ve been to Freemont Street once because it’s a drunken zoo. It is a closed street area because it had become that and they finally gave up trying to keep partying people out of the street. That alone might give you a clue. SSDD, people.
Remember those words- planning and venue because otherwise you’re just embarrassing yourselves. Don’t let the government get hands on that live stream or they’ll use it as a propaganda piece to discourage people, the protests having no success. Just...lame and moronic.
I must add- I can understand that none of the protesters may have read the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but I would expect at least a few to have seen the movie The Hangover.