For coming into my nice quiet sleepy valley town and pissing all over it until it looks like a scene from downtown Oakland. http://www.wmur.com/news/police-amb...aotic-scene-near-keene-state-college/29214452 ... and people wonder why I have such 'issues' with educational institutions and in general college-age dipshits.
@deathshadow I tried to figure out what started it all, but I can't. What was the issue to begin with? The upcoming elections?
Boy, one really does not expect to hear news like this out of Keene, NH. Apparently, it was a big drunken college party that was going on along with the annual pumpkin festival which also draws in large crowds. It seems like the crowd was tipping over cars and dumpsters in drunken revelry and then turned angry when the police showed up in riot gear. Real shame that this has to happen anywhere, but it is alarming that it would happen in a community like Keene.
A bunch of spoilt brats who don't realise how good they have it. A year doing VSA before University wouldn't do them any harm at all.
You just hit on what pissed me off about this. I'm all in favor of civil disobedience when there's a legitimate reason... But this? The "ISSUE" was just a bunch of drunken frat boys and out of down jackasses going "We're gonna get drunk and act like jackasses". Quite literally the causes of this "riot" was alcohol, drugs, testosterone poisoned late teens and twenty-somethings, mated to a pack mentality. Frat boys in the house frontin' like they're from the 'hood. There was no political, social, or higher moral motivation -- it was just a whole bunch of people just going "whoo-hoo, we're gonna riot and trash this neighborhood because we can." Thankfully not ALL the college kids were involved -- many of them fled to the dorms and locked themselves in, in equal terror to that of many of my neighbors who did the same. A lot of the kids who weren't involved went out there today with buckets and gloves and started cleaning up the neighborhood. Oh, and a big thanks to the high school and junior high kids who are volunteers with CERT who went into that mess as emergency responders. It was the one uplifting part of this mess to see teens and even some pre-teens "man up" to be on the right side of a very bad situation and being far more responsible and mature than people twice their age!