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Panic as Automatic Sprinklers Soak Harvard’s Anti-Israel Encampment
Breitbart ^ | 04/25/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 04/25/2024 8:56:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, and pro-Hamas protesters who camped out in Harvard Yard on Wednesday received a rude awakening overnight as automatic sprinklers switched on, soaking tents and sending the activists into a panic.

The Harvard Crimson reported that sprinklers began to turn on after 2:00 a.m. in 36º Fahrenheit weather. It later noted at 4:05 a.m. ET:

As protesters spend their first night in the Harvard Yard encampment, the biggest threat to their stay has not come from administrators or Harvard University police officers, but the Yard’s sprinklers.

Two more sprinklers turned on at the edge of the encampment near Massachusetts Hall. The sprinklers began to hit tents on the edge of the camp before protesters rushed over to covered the sprinklers with buckets and sit on them.

Harvard closed the gates of Harvard Yard to all but Harvard ID holders on Sunday, hoping to avoid the encampments that hit other universities. But there were enough Harvard students among the anti-Israel radicals to set up tents.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: automatic; domesticenemies; education; harvard; lol; panic; sprinklers
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Panicking over water? What a bunch of wimpy scum bags.”

36 degree Temps.


21 posted on 04/25/2024 9:17:14 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In a strange coincidence, Wednesday also marked the second day of Passover, a period in which Jews begin saying a traditional prayer for dew to fall overnight.


I was wondering about the cause of this event. At first I thought it might have been the janitor.


22 posted on 04/25/2024 9:19:05 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

“The maintenance worker who turned on the sprinklers should get an award. :)”

The article states they came on automatically.


23 posted on 04/25/2024 9:19:09 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

“The article states they came on automatically.”

Uh Hu, sure they did. Wink Wink.


24 posted on 04/25/2024 9:22:09 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Make orwell fiction again)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Panicking over water? What a bunch of wimpy scum bags.

They're afraid there might be a smidgen of soap in it.

25 posted on 04/25/2024 9:24:36 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“Panicking over water? What a bunch of wimpy scum bags.”


26 posted on 04/25/2024 9:26:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The new Nazis don’t appear to shower much.

So their concern is understandable.


27 posted on 04/25/2024 9:27:25 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“The Harvard Crimson reported that sprinklers began to turn on after 2:00 a.m. in 36º Fahrenheit weather.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!


28 posted on 04/25/2024 9:28:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m okay with nice gentle sprinkers for the first step.
Second, fire hoses.
Third, tear gas.
4th: mustard gas for all I care.
To HELL with this evil basturds ruining a fine University just to pick up a few filthy dollars from SorozNazi and enemy Islamicist terrorist-sponsoring countries.


29 posted on 04/25/2024 9:33:12 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

I like the way you think. Only difference is Is go directly to mustard gas


30 posted on 04/25/2024 10:11:39 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Could have been worse — could have been fire hoses!


31 posted on 04/25/2024 10:12:36 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: Psalm 130)
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To: PeterPrinciple

IF I WERE IN CHARGE:

NO STUDENT INVOLVED IN ANY OF THESE PROTESTS WOULD GET ANY LOAN REDUCTION OF ANY KIND

NO STUDENT WOULD GET ANY DIPLOMA-—NOW OR LATER

EVERY STUDENT WOULD IMMEDIATELY GET EXPELLED

NO REINSTATEMENT OF STUDENT BY CURRENT SCHOOL

SEVERE RESTRICTIONS ON ANY FUTURE ENROLLMENT IN THE FUTURE-—FOREVER.

NO EXCEPTIONS

STUDENTS HERE ON EDUCATION VISAS ARE ALL DEPORTED & PUT ON NO FLY LISTS & NEVER GET ANOTHER VISA-—EVER.

PROFESSORS ON TEACHING VISAS-—SAME RULES—DEPORTED—NEVER TO RETURN.....


32 posted on 04/25/2024 10:21:54 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now the cops know what weapon to use to disperse them — water cannons and fire trucks. Won’t hurt the idiots, but will make them very uncomfortable, especially late at night and early morning;


33 posted on 04/25/2024 10:23:30 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No.
Female: OMG. This is going to ruin my hair. Hope how I look doesn’t go viral. Gimme a hijab.


34 posted on 04/25/2024 10:32:39 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: TexasGator

Every maintenance worker knows the sprinkler schedule and how torn them off.


35 posted on 04/25/2024 10:35:26 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another unexpected consequence of climate change. Sprinklers coming on when the temperature in April is below freezing.


36 posted on 04/25/2024 10:36:14 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: READINABLUESTATE; TexasGator

“The article states they came on automatically.”

Uh Hu, sure they did. Wink Wink.

They were AI sprinklers, learning as they go. lol


37 posted on 04/25/2024 10:42:36 AM PDT by Zack Attack (✔)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Farmers used to kill flocks of starlings at night on their roost by spraying them with water and detergent in below 45 degree temps. They die of exposure as a result.


38 posted on 04/25/2024 10:47:00 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: Blue Highway

well, maybe I was a bit too soft


39 posted on 04/25/2024 10:55:56 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

40 posted on 04/25/2024 11:02:19 AM PDT by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
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