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Occupy Wall Street builds tent as 'safe house' to protect female protesters
NY Daily News ^ | 11/4/2011 | BY Rich Schapiro , Kerry Wills & Henrick Karoliszn

Posted on 11/05/2011 7:37:55 AM PDT by tobyhill

Spurred by a spate of sex attacks in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protesters built a “safe house” for women on Friday.

The 16-square-foot military frame tent is designed to shelter up to 30 women from the predators lurking around the lower Manhattan encampment.

“It will be used to protect ourselves from people out there,” said Nan Terrie, 17, a protester from East Oakland Park, Fla. “I’m sick and tired of women getting taken advantage of, raped and murdered.

“We need to take charge. We can make it happen without men telling us what to do,” said Terrie, who heads a protester subcommittee called Strong Women Rules.

Terrie said the tent, erected along the southern edge of the park near Cedar St., will be outfitted with bunk beds, drawers and a welcome table. A second tent will house a computer.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: occupydonothings; occupyrapists; occupywallstreet; ows
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To: Free America52
What is a 17 year old girl from Florida doing at OWS?

Guys?

61 posted on 11/05/2011 9:15:18 AM PDT by Go Gordon
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To: tobyhill

Interesting what happens when people decide that the highest law is “I want what I want and I want it right now.” Pretty soon they’ll have to put some of the men in there, too:

“He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.’”

I saw a photoshop this week of an OWS protest. The photoshopper had changed one of the signs to “We want Piggy’s glasses!”


62 posted on 11/05/2011 9:20:06 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: Free America52
Sounds to me like she is a rebellious run away. Parents never said no or never brought her up to respect authority.
63 posted on 11/05/2011 9:45:12 AM PDT by YukonGreen
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To: Drango
The protest organizers plan to put up seven more large tents, including ones for gay and transgender people, co-ed tents and a medical tent.
64 posted on 11/05/2011 9:50:21 AM PDT by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: tobyhill

Newsflash America - Segregated housing added to Paradise!


65 posted on 11/05/2011 9:55:44 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: ExtremeUnction

Sounds like there’s a lot more going on than we’re hearing about in the msm or on the web! Got to wonder just who is paying for all of this??? Acorn and Unions have been involved and they both have deep pockets due to Stimulus money (code word for Taxpayer’s money!!!)


66 posted on 11/05/2011 9:55:59 AM PDT by Fran B (Love!)
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To: BlowNegative
the 16 SQFT Tent????? ... that will accommodate 30 women

Think "clown car" with a gallon of baby oil sprayed on.

67 posted on 11/05/2011 9:58:58 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: BlowNegative
the 16 SQFT Tent????? what is that 2 x 8 or 4 X 4 and that will accomodate 30 women, must be really small women. But these are the college educated 99% math must be difficult for them

I guess you could cram even more into the phonebooth if you used women instead of men. But who even uses phonebooths anymore other than annoying British time travelers?

68 posted on 11/05/2011 10:44:50 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
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To: windsorknot

“Note: We don’t need “safe houses” to protect females at TEA Party rallies.”

True, but then, OWS is just complete, friggin ANARCHY at it’s worse.


69 posted on 11/05/2011 11:01:20 AM PDT by Levante
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To: Grampa Dave

“Biden predicted this when he said there would be more rapes due to the evil Republicans.”

Biden can KMA and burn in HELL, for all I care.

And, BTW, he’ll be the most STUPID one there, too.


70 posted on 11/05/2011 11:03:22 AM PDT by Levante
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To: tobyhill

Oh goody. A harem tent. Perfect...


71 posted on 11/05/2011 11:07:47 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Levante
Actually, Tea Party events are intelligent anarchy. There are no elected leaders, no formal governing structure, ad nauseum. What there are are intelligent attendees who cooperate voluntarily towards common goals - having a good meeting, hearing good speeches and cleaning up after themselves.

The OWS crowd are spoiled socialists who want to live at someone else's expense, and to force their warped ideas on the rest of us.

72 posted on 11/05/2011 2:40:17 PM PDT by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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To: Iron Munro
Apparently some of the rules for the new Women's Tent have been agreed to by the "Women's Tent Committee".

Photobucket

73 posted on 11/05/2011 4:31:01 PM PDT by Col Freeper (FR is a smorgasbord of Conservative thoughts and ideas - dig in and enjoy it to its fullest!)
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To: Col Freeper
Apparently some of the rules for the new Women's Tent have been agreed to by the "Women's Tent Committee".

I wonder if they noticed that you can see right through the walls of that big tent.


74 posted on 11/05/2011 4:42:38 PM PDT by Iron Munro ('We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them.' -- Mitt Romney)
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To: tobyhill
The 16-square-foot military frame tent is designed to shelter up to 30 women

That sounds more than a little ambitious.

A 16 square foot tent encompasses 16 square feet (Duh!)
The average standing person occupies 25" by 15" of floor space or 2.6 sq. ft.)
16 sq. ft. / 2.6 sq. ft. = 6

So a 16 square foot tent has floor space for 6 people standing up.

To hold 30 people they had better leave the roof off the tent because occupants will have to squeeze in standing up on each others shoulders and stack themselves 5 layers high.

Perhaps the rocket scientist writing this gobbledy-gook meant 16 feet square?

But wait!

A person laying down will occupy about 15 square feet on average.
A tent 16 feet square encompasses 256 square feet.
256 sq. ft. / 15 sq. ft. = 17

So a 16 foot square tent will hold only about 17 people sleeping in a single layer with no room allowed for aisles.

In this case the obvious solution to increase the capacity to 30 people is to go with 15 sleeping spaces and stack the sleeping ladies two high.

But will it pass the NY City maximum occupancy codes for a temporary structure this size?


75 posted on 11/05/2011 5:24:41 PM PDT by Iron Munro ('We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them.' -- Mitt Romney)
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To: jimt

Good points.


76 posted on 11/05/2011 7:50:11 PM PDT by Levante
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