immunity-to-drivers-hitting-protestors-in-street?

[Clipper]

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I think it is about time. Some people have been in fear of their lives and have hit demonstrators as they were beating on their vehicle or otherwise acting in a personally threatening manner and they had to face legal action. Maybe those protesters will find it more advantageous to keep their ass on the sidewalk. I have never agreed that they had a 1st amendment right to protest by blocking a roadway. Maybe if a few people thin the herd the dumbasses will stay out of the road. Heck, go one step further and put a bounty on their ass. bag'em, tag'em and stack them on the curb.


Protest your little hearts out. Just stay the hell out of my way and don't impede my movement on public thoroughfares. I have only encountered protestors in the road on one occasion on my way to the VA last summer and I just turned up a side street and went around them. Hasn't been lot of that crap in Bristol. Johnson City has seen quite a few BLM and Antifa marches that had to be broken up by police, and the students at ETSU are constantly finding one thing or another to protest, but seldom does it affect the movement of off campus traffic. Their most recent action was for the basketball team to kneel for the anthem at an away game in Chattanooga and it has caused a major stir. That shit doesn't fly down here. Alumni and benefactors have withdrawn financial support, and students, even some with scholarships have withdrawn their registration and opted to attend a different school.

[BHU]

Anyone beats on my truck they'll need surgery to get my foot out of their ass. I paid good money for it & I don't care what side they're on. Amirite?

[Deleted]

I never did understand the need to damage other peoples property just to protest some idea or activity or organization you do not like or agree with. Carry a sign, chant and wave your hands in the air is ok. Burning, throwing fire cocktails and looting is not and those people doing it need to be shot at then maybe others will get the message.

[Clipper]

Gee PB. Do ya mean folks like those "peaceful" demonstrators that burned about half of Baltimore. The peaceful folks that empty out a Walgreen's, a liquor store, or a Walmart in an attempt to convince people that black lives really do matter?

I have yet to figure out the logic behind that.

[artsyone]

There is no logic behind it, but let us all hope that this new law will not be a carte blanch for some nut to just plow into a bunch of people who are crossing the road, or otherwise, because he feels "they were protesting and or blocking his right of way". I don't think protestors should be in the road, blocking traffic or whatever either, but this law could backfire quickly. Wait and see.

[BHU]

If Antifa or BLM protestors did on 1/6 what that insurgent mob did I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that they're would have been dead bodies all over inside & outside the capital building. Those cops would have opened up in a heartbeat.

[Clipper]

That is very doubtful BHU. I am sure that it was just the government being prudent and not wanting to leave themselves open to liability and legal action. Nobody wants to kill another human being. It was not about Antifa or the extremist conservatives. That being said, I think that there should have been a stronger defense than there was and that those capital police should have authorization to use deadly force to protect the seat of our government. We protect our military bases, and classified assets with signs and the authorization of deadly force. I am sure that there are classified places inside the Pentagon that are protected by security with deadly force authorized.

I have said it before. Those that actually breached the capital building should have been stopped in their tracks and had they shot a few of them I am sure that the majority of them would have cooled their jets in a hurry and would have stayed on the outside.

I am not a proponent of leaving the fences and walls around the capitol building. I would favor increasing the number of capitol police officers, stationing them at all the entrances and giving them authorization to use whatever force is necessary to defend themselves AND the building. Having national guard troops and razor wire around our capitol is a necessity that has past.

[artsyone]

I think, Clipper, that you are correct. Hopefully all of that will come down soon. I am, however, in favor of an invisible electric fence. Crank that baby up and Let's see the sumbitches try to surmount that one. Or how about a ten foot tall mile wide bug zapper? That outta do it. We'll call it the "Irish Fist of Death".

[Clipper]

Mar 4, 2021 16:04:48 GMT -5 artsyone said:

I think, Clipper, that you are correct. Hopefully all of that will come down soon. I am, however, in favor of an invisible electric fence. Crank that baby up and Let's see the sumbitches try to surmount that one. Or how about a ten foot tall mile wide bug zapper? That outta do it. We'll call it the "Irish Fist of Death".

ROFL! That electric fence would certainly light up their lives. Once when I was in my teens we were hunting racoons in a corn field at night. It had rained and we had gotten pretty well soaked just walking through the corn along the edge of the field. I walked into an electric fence wire and with wet pants, it just about knocked me down. It jolted me enough that my muscles were sore the next day.

I have to chuckle when I envision someone walking into the giant bug zapper resulting in a flash of light and a vaporized intruder. LOL.

[artsyone]

Yup! Zap! Boom, yer gone. Thanks for visiting the Irish Fist of Death. Ya'll come back soon, hear?

[Clipper]

Hahaha! Your wit cracks me up artsie. That picture of little piles of smoking ashes that were at one time intruders that paid the ultimate price for trespassing is hilarious.

In today's world of home invasions and burglaries I might be inclined to invest in such a home security system, but I am afraid that I might fry the UPS guy or a neighbor who just stops by unannounced. I guess for now I will stick with a door bell camera and a loaded handgun.

[BHU]

I remember when I was a kid there was an ice cream stand over near Trails End Campground in Hinckley & the owners had a sign up warning possible intruders that the front door was booby trapped with a shotgun. I never forgot that warning sign but I bet it worked. Lol
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[Clipper]

I have a sign that I have been debating as to whether I should putting up. It says "due to the increased cost of ammunition we will no longer fire a warning shot." $5 at the flea market.

(sorry BHU, I accidentally posted these remarks to you original comments and had to edit it to delete my mistake.)

That stand was still there, abandoned and falling down when I lived at Trails End in the 80s before my ex and I bought the house on Kayuta Lake. When I was in about the 6th grade I had a friend who's parents had a trailer at Trails End for a camp. I went there a couple timeswith my friend and we walked to that little stand for ice cream. I also remember that they sold Durr's hot dogs and the smell of them grilling made your mouth water.

Somewhere near there I remember by parents taking us on picnics at a place with a little two track road leading a few hundred yards down to the lake where you could picnic either for free or for small fee to rent a picnic table. It may have been right behind that stand and owned by the same people, or it may have just been close by. I can't recall for sure.

Those were the days. A family could take a picnic lunch, put a buck's worth of gas in the old car, pay 50 cents to rent a table for the day, and entertain the entire family with a day in he sun for a total of about a buck and a half. Today it would cost more than that for bag of ice for the picnic cooler.



When my mom died and we held an estate sale before my dad moved in with Kathy and I we found the old wicker picnic basket, still holding the plastic divided plates and plastic silverware, a half dozen of the paper cups with the handles that folded out, and an old flower patterned linen table cloth that had probably been in there since the 60's. They also still had the metal one gallon thermos jug with the little spigot to pour lemonade in those paper cups. On a shelf in the garage was an old bright red metal coca cola cooler that I priced at $50 for the sale and it sold within the first hour, full price, no questions asked. Probably was worth more than that. The picnic basket ended up with Kathy and I. Mom died in 2004 and it has only been used once since.

Those were the days. A family could rent a picnic table in places like that for about 50 cents. Bailey's on the other side of Hinckley Lake, and Midway Beach, just up the road from Bailey's rented tables on their picnic ground and had a boat launch as well as a campground. We also used to picnic at Baker's Beach on Canadarago Lake. Had to wear sneakers to swim because the bottom was entirely covered with little tiny snail shells.