The Funniest Thing I've Ever Seen, EVER.

[freedom78]

It looks like those "security guards" were officers from the University of Florida Police Dept. If so, no matter how wrong they were, when given an order by them, he should have complied. Anything otherwise was resisting arrest. The press was there to document the entire episode. The old idiom "think smarter, don't be a martyr" comes to mind. Had he complied, he would have had a damn good case against the University for violating his civil rights ... he might anyway.

Nah, having a badge doesn't make you right. For example, check out this asshole-of-the-law. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaHyuWgir8U

I root for the underdog in the NCAA tourney, I root for any team to beat the Yankees and Patriots, why would I root for 10+ asshole cops who, in their inability to cuff some scrawny college kid, have to taser him? Seriously, it can't take that many people to cuff him...why are they so bad at their jobs? Oh well, they'll make up for it by being bullies and assholes!

I think you missed the key part of my post.

No, I read it.  But I've actually never heard that axiom.  Anyway, I subscribe to the WWGMLKJSCSAOAOAAFD (What would Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stone Cold Steve Austin, or any other anti-authority figure do?) theory of standing up to unjust authority.     But, seriously, I believe that right is right, and that cops are very often wrong.  So long as there's such a thing as "driving while black," I'll have an anti-cop streak in me. 

After several beat downs by local and state police, and the National Guard. It don't take a "rocket scientist" to figure out, you ain't gonna win.

I've been gassed, clubbed, and punched. Don't preach.

Sorry to hear that they've beaten it out of you.  I suggest going everywhere with a friend who owns a video phone.

[fuckin crazy]

It looks like those "security guards" were officers from the University of Florida Police Dept. If so, no matter how wrong they were, when given an order by them, he should have complied. Anything otherwise was resisting arrest. The press was there to document the entire episode. The old idiom "think smarter, don't be a martyr" comes to mind. Had he complied, he would have had a damn good case against the University for violating his civil rights ... he might anyway.

Nah, having a badge doesn't make you right. For example, check out this asshole-of-the-law. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaHyuWgir8U

I root for the underdog in the NCAA tourney, I root for any team to beat the Yankees and Patriots, why would I root for 10+ asshole cops who, in their inability to cuff some scrawny college kid, have to taser him? Seriously, it can't take that many people to cuff him...why are they so bad at their jobs? Oh well, they'll make up for it by being bullies and assholes!

I think you missed the key part of my post.

No, I read it. But I've actually never heard that axiom. Anyway, I subscribe to the WWGMLKJSCSAOAOAAFD (What would Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stone Cold Steve Austin, or any other anti-authority figure do?) theory of standing up to unjust authority. But, seriously, I believe that right is right, and that cops are very often wrong. So long as there's such a thing as "driving while black," I'll have an anti-cop streak in me.

After several beat downs by local and state police, and the National Guard. It don't take a "rocket scientist" to figure out, you ain't gonna win.

I've been gassed, clubbed, and punched. Don't preach.

Sorry to hear that they've beaten it out of you. I suggest going everywhere with a friend who owns a video phone.

Money for jobs, education, and welfare ... Not WAR

Y.A.W.F.

[JMack]

Wasn't the states lottery monies supposed to pay for school's, education, roads and highway building?  I heard that it isn't touched and put in the general fund to make the budgets look balanced.

[fuckin crazy]

Wasn't the states lottery monies supposed to pay for school's, education, roads and highway building? I heard that it isn't touched and put in the general fund to make the budgets look balanced.

The turdmunchin motherfuckers stuck it in their pocket in ...


EDIT:, fuck it, if you are already one of them, you already know ... Damn, I can't post my state.

[JMack]

Wasn't the states lottery monies supposed to pay for school's, education, roads and highway building? I heard that it isn't touched and put in the general fund to make the budgets look balanced.

The turdmunchin motherfuckers stuck it in their pocket in ...


EDIT:, fuck it, if you are already one of them, you already know ... Damn, I can't post my state.

I know I Know....just say your in the state of intoxication.

[SLCPUNK]

By TRAVIS REED, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A University of Florida student with a history of taping his own practical jokes was Tasered by campus police and arrested after loudly and repeatedly trying to ask U.S. Sen. John Kerry questions during a campus forum.

Andrew Meyer, 21, spent a night in jail before his release from jail Tuesday morning on his own recognizance. He had no comment when he left, and his attorney, Robert Griscti, did not return messages seeking comment.

Videos of the Monday night incident, posted on several Web sites and played repeatedly on television news, show officers pulling Meyer away from the microphone after he asks Kerry about impeaching President Bush and whether he and Bush were both members of the secret society Skull and Bones at Yale University.

University spokesman Steve Orlando said Meyer was asked to leave the microphone after his allotted time was up. Meyer can be seen refusing to walk away and getting upset that the microphone was cut off.

As two officers take Meyer by the arms, Kerry, D-Mass., can be heard saying, "That's all right, let me answer his question."

Audience members applaud, and Meyer struggles for several seconds as up to four officers try to remove him from the room. Meyer screams for help and tries to break away from officers with his arms flailing at them, then is forced to the ground and officers order him to stop resisting.

As Kerry tells the audience he will answer the student's "very important question," Meyer yells at the officers to release him, crying out, "Don't Tase me, bro," just before he is shocked by the Taser. He is then led from the room, screaming, "What did I do?"

Meyer was arrested on charges of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace, according to Alachua County jail records, but the State Attorney's Office had yet to make the formal charging decision. Police recommended charges of resisting arrest with violence, a felony, and disturbing the peace and interfering with school administrative functions, a misdemeanor.

University President J. Bernard Machen issued a statement Tuesday saying he requested the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the arrest. Officials said it would determine whether the officers used an appropriate level of force.

Machen said two officers involved in the incident were placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the probe.

In a statement issued Tuesday, Kerry said he regretted that a healthy discussion was interrupted and that he had never had a dialogue end in 37 years of public appearances. He also said he hoped neither the student nor police officers was injured.

"I believe I could have handled the situation without interruption, but again I do not know what warnings or other exchanges transpired between the young man and the police prior to his barging to the front of the line and their intervention," the statement said.

Meyer has his own Web site and it contains several "comedy" videos that he appears in. In one, he stands in a street with a sign that says "Harry Dies" after the latest Harry Potter book was released. In another, he acts like a drunk while trying to pick up a woman in a bar.

The site also has what is called a "disorganized diatribe" attributed to Meyer that criticizes the Iraq war, the news media for not covering the conflict enough and the American public for paying too much attention to celebrity news.

[fuckin crazy]

Wasn't the states lottery monies supposed to pay for school's, education, roads and highway building? I heard that it isn't touched and put in the general fund to make the budgets look balanced.

Whiskey is love ...

The turdmunchin motherfuckers stuck it in their pocket in ...


EDIT:, fuck it, if you are already one of them, you already know ... Damn, I can't post my state.

I know I Know....just say your in the state of intoxication.

[fuckin crazy]

I'll passed out now ... yeah.....

[polluxlm]

That is the funniest thing you've ever seen?


Why not just give the cops brown uniforms, make it official.


That is the most pathetic use of force I've seen, in a while.

[freedom78]

I had thought I had seen this in its entirety, earlier today on the news, but I now realized I hadn't.

Having now seen the entire thing I can say, unequivocally, that the cops are in the wrong.  Why do they have the right to pull him, by force, away from that mic?  They initiated the violence!  And why?  Because he was a bit of a dick to John Kerry?  Of course, if you listen to his question, it's clear he's a Kerry supporter (from 2004) who's upset that Kerry didn't further contest the election!  Ridiculous.  Of course, police departments have ridiculously loose rules of conduct, with which I'm sure they'll be protected.  And this kid faces felony prison time?    

Reminds me of this incident at UCLA, where a kid was tasered...because he wouldn't show some asshole his student ID!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA_Taser_incident

[stolat]

In more enlightened times, police weren't allowed to enter the university grounds/campus in Adelaide unless invited. The University was seen as a refuge unto itself.

[JMack]

Remember,  shhh.. never call them when you need them either.  This way nothing bad will happen  shhh....

[stolat]

Isn't it time that the title of this thread is changed.

That isn't very funny at all!

[SkinnyPuppy]

In more enlightened times, police weren't allowed to enter the university grounds/campus in Adelaide unless invited. The University was seen as a refuge unto itself.

Yeah, same story with us in Melbourne too.

[JMack]

   It has been reported now that this kid has been known to be involved with getting on video or setting up videos for other people.  He has been linked to pranks before.  So I guess this was planned, he knew he was going to get in trouble (maybe tossed), but not what happened.  The student who is a co-leader involved with the planning of these speeches, says that he regrets that it happened but he got what he asked for because it ruined the session and gave everyone involved a bad name.  Who know what'll happen next? 

[freedom78]

   It has been reported now that this kid has been known to be involved with getting on video or setting up videos for other people.  He has been linked to pranks before.  So I guess this was planned, he knew he was going to get in trouble (maybe tossed), but not what happened.  The student who is a co-leader involved with the planning of these speeches, says that he regrets that it happened but he got what he asked for because it ruined the session and gave everyone involved a bad name.  Who know what'll happen next? 

1.) It was at the VERY end of the session, so how, exactly, did it ruin it?  As the kid (the fried one) himself says, "He got to speak for two hours." 

2.) I have no idea how it gave everyone a bad name.  It gave some a-hole cops a bad name, but everyone?

You'd think a student involved with organizing such events would have a little more brain power than this one.

[Loaded NightraiN]

What the hell are you guys smoking?? They were going to escort him out, and he flipped.... Every right to get arrested then..

[SLCPUNK]

What the hell are you guys smoking?? They were going to escort him out, and he flipped.... Every right to get arrested then..

The police lost control of the situation the moment they grabbed him.

What's would the charge be?

[Loaded NightraiN]

What the hell are you guys smoking?? They were going to escort him out, and he flipped.... Every right to get arrested then..

The police lost control of the situation the moment they grabbed him.

What's would the charge be?

No charge.. Escorting him out, does not mean arrest... Escort him out for being an asshole...

[freedom78]

What the hell are you guys smoking?? They were going to escort him out, and he flipped.... Every right to get arrested then..

The police lost control of the situation the moment they grabbed him.

What's would the charge be?

No charge.. Escorting him out, does not meanarrest... Escort him out for being an asshole...

Umm...if he's not doing anything illegal, then they have no right to "escort him out."  Cops aren't there to beat up on any random asshole.