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University forcibly extracting tree sitters
KGO-TV in San Francisco (ABC news) ^
| 9/9/2008
| Teresa Garcia
Posted on 09/09/2008 11:49:49 AM PDT by Macaw
BERKELEY, CA (KGO) -- The final showdown is unfolding at UC Berkeley. As campus police move in on the tree sitters occupying the last of the remaining trees. There have been many violent confrontations between police and protestors.
Objects thrown, weapons drawn, people arrested - it's all going down right now at UC Berkeley. Campus police in a cherry-picker are actively trying to get the tree sitters down from their perch in a redwood tree. A dramatic ending to the nearly two-year protest over the removal of trees to build a new university sports complex.
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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: berkeley; protest; tree; trees
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:49:50 AM PDT
by
Macaw
To: Macaw
Watching the live stream right now.
Did you hear that guy yell “Get a f****’n job you damn dirty zeroBama loving hippies!”
LOL.
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:51:47 AM PDT
by
library user
(What say you, Messiah?)
To: Macaw
If the video is busy, basically they have scaffolding up and a crane with a platform hovering overhead.
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:51:55 AM PDT
by
Macaw
To: Macaw
When they get infected, you have to extract them.
/johnny
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:52:01 AM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: library user
Are you getting audio? I’m just getting a tone.
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:52:47 AM PDT
by
Macaw
To: Macaw
YES!
Spray them down with some industrial-grade disinfectant while you’re at it.
Damn stinkin’ hippies.
To: Macaw
The cops should head on over to fruit grove and borrow a tree shaker. A few nets might be nice to prevent lawsuits.
To: library user
Wonder if they had planned on voting absentee?
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:54:20 AM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(I would rather be water-boarded than vote for John McCain......)
To: Macaw
Does anyone find it a bit ironic that Berkeley has to face down the very kind of people it encourages and develops?
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:54:55 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: Macaw
Eric Cartman is on the job.
10
posted on
09/09/2008 11:55:05 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
To: Macaw
I'd suggest softening them up first with a few volleys of pepper-spray paintballs.
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:55:19 AM PDT
by
Sax
To: Macaw
Tree cutters in white suits(Haz mat suits?)
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:55:35 AM PDT
by
GQuagmire
(Giggety,Giggety,Giggety)
To: A Strict Constructionist
I'm afraid they might enjoy that shaking a bit too much.
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:55:59 AM PDT
by
Macaw
To: GQuagmire
Yes, because “droppings” were sometimes raining down on them.
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:56:29 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: Macaw
I still say the University should have sprayed these tree sitters with a solution mixed with skunk oil from day one. Each day they could increase the percentage mixture until these pathetic losers come down on their own.
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:56:40 AM PDT
by
auzerais
To: Macaw
I don’t get it. The video just shows workers harvesting nuts. (sarc)
To: Macaw
Why bother extracting them from the trees?
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:56:56 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Macaw
Same here. Only audio is a very annoying tone! Anybody got a better link? I’m on a Mac.
To: Macaw
ROFLMAO! I love it! I saw some of the freakazoids on TV.
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:57:04 AM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
To: Macaw
Those are college kids? They look like they’re in their 30s.
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posted on
09/09/2008 11:57:07 AM PDT
by
library user
(What say you, Messiah?)
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