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Literally.
WATCH: Conservative 'People's Convoy' chased from neighborhood by kids throwing eggs
According to a report by the San Francisco Gate, a conservative trucker convoy traveling through a Bay Area neighborhood was showered with eggs thrown by locals instead of being showered with applause.
The report notes that the so-called "People's Convoy" was formed to protest "Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks East Bay home to protest her support of an abortion rights bill," but made the mistake of traveling down a road where they were egged and taunted as they drove through, leading to some confrontations after some of the truckers stopped to get in shouting matches.
The report states, "Livestreams posted by convoy participants show police arriving to protect Wicks home, which eventually prompted the group to move on. It was here they made their mistake, driving onto busy, one-lane College Avenue on the Berkeley-Oakland border. There, slowed down by the usual Friday afternoon traffic, they were sitting ducks outside the Safeway. A large group of kids, armed with eggs purchased at the grocery store, began pelting the convoy."
https://www.rawstory.com/2657205470/
Faux pas
(14,690 posts)kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)Seeing those trucks getting egged and the truckers getting angry but not being able to intimidate the people was outstanding!!!!!!
brush
(53,862 posts)Berkeley and Oakland are decidedly not right wing.
Novara
(5,851 posts)Jeebus, are these people dumb.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That's why the dimwits in Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys and the other nitwits come to Portland all the time. It's to provoke a response and justify violence. Since we're smarter than these yahoos, progressives and liberals have used a variety of counter-measures to thwart their stratagems. They seem to have gotten tired of being shown up by a bunch of crunchy granola hippies (and their hero got his ass handed to him in the 2020 election), but they'll probably be back, and we'll be ready for them.
Novara
(5,851 posts)usonian
(9,867 posts)+ 1 million
shortcut to the YT video
From an old joke:
(Politician admitted to hospital after being pelted with tomatoes.)
Q. How did you get such serious injuries from being hit with tomatoes?
A. THEY WERE STILL IN THE CAN
PatSeg
(47,587 posts)I watched it twice.
bif
(22,746 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,377 posts)This is the best thing I've seen all week!
Fuck those stupid assholes.
Ya gotta love the irony of a guy who was out protesting a legislator promoting an abortion bill, riding around with "My body, my choice" scrawled on his truck!
Martin68
(22,879 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)Yeah, let's drive through residential neighborhoods blasting our air horns, flying Trump flags and see what reception we get.
Better yet, let's do it in Oakland and Berkeley.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,830 posts)PSPS
(13,614 posts)PatSeg
(47,587 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Any good driver knows to have a good trip plan and knows where to avoid ahead of time. Either that or they're a bunch of steering wheel holders....
Leith
(7,813 posts)Those assholes descended on the neighborhood honking truck horns and running that damn siren. I would have pelted them with eggs, too. I really liked the gentleman in the cargo shorts cussing at the trucker trash and the lady wearing a black T-shirt and mask standing up to the Y'all Qaeda who left his truck to get in her face. His passengers kept honking his truck horn so nobody could hear what he had to say.
PSPS
(13,614 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)usonian
(9,867 posts)My, how things change!!
Progressive Lawyer
(617 posts)Those are pretty expensive to maintain.