Must -see: Occupy Melbourne Tent Monsters (they came to tear down the tents...but...)

[Fire Walk With Me]

Run time: 04:06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKMwigI3mdM   Posted on YouTube: December 04, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheFreemanSmith Views on YouTube: 1553   Posted on DU: December 05, 2011 By DU Member: Fire Walk With Me Views on DU: 13062

 
Clothing isn't tents.

How to speak Australian: #Occupy! :)

[Huey P. Long]

1. Watch this. very creative, very occupy. -eom

[boston bean]

2. Love it!!!

[ljm2002]

3. Well Done, Occupy Melbourne!!!

That was great and also entertaining.

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

K&R

[T S Justly]

4. Clearly, Occupy is trying to incite a riot...

...a laugh riot! :rofl:

[wundermaus]

5. brilliant!

Thank goodness the police there had a sense of humor...
or did they?

[AlbertCat]

46. or did they?

It did emphasize the fool's errand they're being sent on.

[Lasher]

6. That is so funny!

I love that Aussie sense of humor!

:D

[me b zola]

7. "spin this ya prick"

:rofl:

loved this video! Beautiful Melbourne :grouphug:

[MrMickeysMom]

20. I loved that, too!

I wonder if they tried to spin it.

[Bennyboy]

8. HA HA HA...

The best.

[jpak]

9. LOL!!111

:thumbsup:

:rofl:

[Tx4obama]

10. LOL :) n/t

[G_j]

11. knr

[SaveOurDemocracy]

12. Sung at the very end, "All we are saying is give tents a chance"

KnR!

[sce56]

13. K&R What a laugh the guy has! LOL

[PurgedVoter]

14. Brilliant!

Safe till the fashion police show up!

[rhett o rick]

51. Not so sure they would object based on some of the fashions I've seen. Just sayin. nm

[defendandprotect]

15. Wonderful -- !! Adorable -- !! Love it -- !!!

[drm604]

16. Clever.

Laughter can be a great tool. They either laugh with you or look like humorless assholes.

[DeSwiss]

17. When the authoritarian programming.....

...is confused in this manner as you saw, the policebots stood idle while their base programming searched for the appropriate response program that doesn't exist, being too complex for such rudimentary intelligence. In the end it was the "Return To Base" program that overrode their previously planned program of ""Search And Destroy Tents and Hippies.'' I wouldn't want to be the next person arrested by one of these monkeys. Nor their spouse.

- With that kind of unresolved and unexpressed aggression bottled-up inside of them, you can bet it won't be pretty......

K&R

[Xtraneous]

18. So true... most of it was just silly... but the best part was their confusion.

it reminded me of something in a Woody Allen or Monty Python movie. As soon as the tents started walking they became instantly perplexed. Classic.

[saras]

63. True, unfortunately, and widely ignored by the left. The technique is a well-used tool of the right.

[PatrynXX]

19. Australian people. very nice folk but those women..

kicked Abby Winters out of the country because of some silly tabloid run by Rupert Murdoch that everyone believed at the time. Never piss off Australian women. unwise mate. :) very very liberal they are. Very free spirited. Leg hair and all. :P (probably why most of them were wearing beards up in New Zealand for the Horse Riders in LOTR :) ahem MOST OF THE HORSE RIDERS WERE WOMEN WEARING RED BEARDS. Very good horse riders... :)



ya sure. you can prick your finger but don't finger your prick oh no.--- George Carlin :P

[MrMickeysMom]

21. FANTASTIC!

I loved the orchestrated tent monster fleeing!

[unionworks]

22. The Tents Are Running Away!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Now I know why I love AC/DC. It's a good thing I never saw anything like that after drinking Cane Toad tea... Those tents should be standard issue for all occupiers! And I want mine to come with the red headed Sheila...

[ChazInAz]

23. Crivens...

Only in Australia.
God, I love those people.

[unionworks]

24. Too bad Boston

...couldn't train its sink to run like that! :rofl: I guess it was feeling too "drained" to run...

[ooglymoogly]

25. Now this is what OWS is all about. Finding the way.

I can see how this could work for all OWS protesters....to protect them all from the weather and keep it light with gloves for the hands and hoods for the head with umbrella like collapse and bunny like feet all water tight with just one zipper. Well insulated from the cold... They could hole up for the night far more comfortable than being totally exposed to the weather. A few volunteer minivans for kitchens and getting whoever needs it out of the weather. These tents would have to be a little bigger for the most protection possible. I think these folks are brilliant and hopefully have started something.

The confusion on those cops faces...priceless.

Maybe they have started a new fashion like the balloon dress.

Get Ru Paul to model it and give it a sendoff.

This would be an easy design project and volunteers could run them off like an assembly line.

Seriously though, we have to find a way to get these folks through the winter without freezing to death.

[GaYellowDawg]

26. American cops would have pepper sprayed them

and then beaten the shit out of them. And I really, really hate saying that.

[unionworks]

30. sadly you are correct n/t

[Dutchmaster]

33. That's what I was thinking . . .

. . . that if any tent person got anywhere near an American cop while running around like that they would have been tazed, or at the very least shoved violently to the ground. Some of these cops seemed to be laughing, or at least smiling.

[1monster]

36. And stripped the tents off of them, before cuffing them naked and charging them with

public indecency...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

60. hate to say it, but it's true.

Wonderful to see the humor here. Wow, a civilized country.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

27. Well done.

[Lunabelle]

28. I laughed my effing ass off.

Very good, Australia.

[FunMe]

29. That is hilarious!

I had to share with Occupy LA as they are a bit down after the LAPD kept many of the protesters arrested in jail for over 2 days. Hope they get a laugh and maybe even take up this GREAT idea!
:-)

[WillyT]

31. LOL !!! - K & R !!!

:evilgrin:

:hi:

:kick:

[Diclotican]

32. Fire Walk With Me

Fire Walk With Me

What can the police do - when the tents are running away from them, or running around them.. And the whole affair is looking more and more silly.. The best is to get along, be in good spirit, and just tell politely that they wanted the tents removed. Withouth violence and force.. Most police officers are in fact polite, when you are polite to them - at least outside the US.

Diclotican

[dotymed]

34. Thank you Fire Walk. This proves how violent

Occupy protesters really are.
:toast:

[pmorlan1]

35. Too funny

I love it!

[Lars77]

37. Oakland coppers would still crack their heads open :(

[wxgeek7]

38. Yeah, or tackled and pepper sprayed

It's a true shame.

On a side nite, that video's funny, LOL! Pretty fashionable attire, hehe.

As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention.

[robinlynne]

39. !!!

[L. Coyote]

40. Are the police using hand signals to communicate orders?

Sure looks like they may have a system of hand signals.

[byronius]

41. Brilliant. Beautiful.

[watajob]

42. Nice, mate!

n/t

[Plucketeer]

43. Truly marvelous!

Hats...er Tents off to these fine occupiers!

[drm604]

44. I wonder why the poster of that video changed the sound track?

Originally it was the original recorded sound; laughter and people singing "All we are saying, is give tents a chance". Now it's just classical music.

[Lasher]

53. I was wondering the same thing.

The audio was real funny. They pretty much ruined it by replacing the original sound track with this music.

[AlbertCat]

45. Hahahaha!

I think Haydn would have love it too. (he provided the music, y'know)

[greiner3]

47. That's great!

Do you think if this was say in Oakland or New York that when these tent monsters rushed the cops they would have been mowed down like those students at Kent State?

Just saying.

[librechik]

48. totally hilarious and effective at undoing authority!

more like this!

[Raksha]

49. K & R - Great...love it!!! n/t

[Tanelorn]

50. My fellow Australians I salute you. Monsters turn away Police LOL

[Lost-in-FL]

52. This is the cutest thing I have seen! nt

[Uncle Joe]

54. Now that's creative.

:)

Thanks for the thread, Fire Walk With Me. :thumbsup:

[Bucky]

55. Funny, but if OWSers pull this in America, our cops'll break out the tasers.

[tclambert]

56. Did you see how those tent monsters threatened the police?

Running around the cops and waving their arms in a menacing manner? I surprised they weren't pepper sprayed!

[Ken Burch]

57. The ad for "Walk(ing) in Jesus' Footsteps" that runs below the clip

brings an interesting second level of meaning to this.

Jesus would have LOVED the tent monsters, IMHO.

[SteveM]

58. Oh, that's rich! Another trip to the bathroom...

:rofl: :spray: :silly: :smoke:

[malthaussen]

59. What wimpy cops

Long hair, no clubs... real police would have shaved heads, be armored head-to-toe, have nightsticks the size of a baseball bat and a utility belt that would make Batman blush.

-- Mal

[Prana69]

61. Wow, that performance was really "in tents". Get it? Intense. LOL @ myself. Not funny. Move along.

n/t

[swilton]

62. Fabulous!

:applause:

[drm604]

64. Except...

This is what came later...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x640730

The police forcefully stripped the tent off a woman and left her cringing in the grass in her underwear. :grr: