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Student arrested for asking questions
2007-09-18, 1:02 AM #1
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22439742-2,00.html
2007-09-18, 1:06 AM #2
this world sucks.

o.0
2007-09-18, 1:29 AM #3
I'm not all :tinfoil: but I definitely think something like this would make you wonder...
D E A T H
2007-09-18, 1:33 AM #4
Damn you Americans are nuts.
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2007-09-18, 1:37 AM #5
I put on my robe and and tinfoil hat.
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2007-09-18, 1:39 AM #6
Originally posted by 82nd_Fister:
I put on my robe and and tinfoil hat.

Har.
D E A T H
2007-09-18, 1:53 AM #7
:neckbeard:
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2007-09-18, 3:02 AM #8
Oh, that's awesome!
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2007-09-18, 4:07 AM #9
Yeah, it used to be a free country...
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2007-09-18, 4:17 AM #10
Still is. He was causing trouble and got punked for it. I didn't start laughing until he started screaming like a *****, though.
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2007-09-18, 4:31 AM #11
I dunno... he was just asking a question, maybe for laughs, but it was a semi legit question.

Was it the best question? Probably not, but its not like he went up there and said "Hey youre stupid and I hate you blah blah blah"
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2007-09-18, 4:37 AM #12
Quote:
"He apparently asked several questions — he went on for quite awhile — then he was asked to stop," university spokesman Steve Orlando said. "He had used his allotted time. His microphone was cut off, then he became upset."



Quote:
As two officers take Meyer by the arms, Kerry, D-Mass., is heard to say, "That's alright, let me answer his question."


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hfZBulx_H-prruRU2Clj0dIgUOww
[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2007-09-18, 4:50 AM #13
They're playing this on the radio right now. That guy was a huge douche. He basically said "THIS IS MY TURN TO TALK AND YOU WILL LISTEN!" Then he overreacted and started going crazy. If he had been calm it wouldn't have gotten out of hand.
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2007-09-18, 5:13 AM #14
Uhm... Reading MB's first quote, and then watching the video... it didn't sound like his mic got cut off. It sounded like he was talking, and then they just pulled him away.
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2007-09-18, 5:54 AM #15
While they had no right to remove him for asking a question like that, he began acting like a moron and thats why he got the treatment he did. I think it's funny how it sounds like Kerry just keeps talking like nothing is happening.
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2007-09-18, 5:58 AM #16
That guy is a douche first of all, I can tell by the way he was talking. However, regardless of whether it was appropriate to put him into custody (or remove him from the area, it's unclear which they were trying to do), what he was doing is called resisting arrest, and/or disobeying a lawful order and that is DEFINITELY a crime, and he DEFINITELY deserved to get tased.

Oh, and I'm glad that article was written in such a classic, unbiased manner. Modern news media is fantastic, right?
Warhead[97]
2007-09-18, 6:21 AM #17
Awesome! I can see the future!

Student: "Excuse me, does anyone have the time?"

Security: "That's enough from you, bub!"

*taze taze*

Student: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!"

I'm going to see if our school board will let teachers carry a tazer to class. I think the benefits outweigh any argument anyone could bring against it.

Student: "Mr. Chewbubba, I need help with #3 on page 45."

Chewbubba: "Here's your help, punk!"

*taze taze*
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2007-09-18, 6:23 AM #18
What a wussy attention whore. It was probably a dream come true to him to get arrested so that he could cause that huge commotion and thus draw even more attention to himself.
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2007-09-18, 6:43 AM #19
Hmm...I wonder where Vinny got this from?

The police were just doing their jobs though. They did everything by the book. Too bad the book sucks :\

Originally posted by Wookie06:
Still is. He was causing trouble and got punked for it. I didn't start laughing until he started screaming like a *****, though.


Wow...
2007-09-18, 7:19 AM #20
No way!? I don't care if the kid was talking on the mic too long, or wouldn't shut up. Maybe we couldn't hear clearly, but I didn't hear a "Sir, you need to sit down" or "Sir, can you please leave?" or "Sir, we're going to arrest you if you don't sit down quietly."

He barely resisted in the beginning, and made an obvious move to leave. No one was being threatened or harassed, and John Kerry, of all people, was trying to tone the situation down.

What those officers did was stretch the right arm of the law out of some factor of entitlement because there was a presidential candidate there.

That said, he got tazered because he wouldn't shut up and let them carry out their injustice, and that's going to hurt him in the long run. If he really wanted to make a statement, he should have simply kept saying "I'm being arrested for asking questions" and let them do whatever they were going to do. Instead he screamed bloody murder and ruined any possible grounds over the unjust arrest.
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2007-09-18, 7:35 AM #21
Yeah, if I were him, I'd just say, "I'm not going to resist arrest - just please, PLEASE tell me why you are arresting me."

I can't stand Kafka-esque arrests without explanation.
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2007-09-18, 7:41 AM #22
To be fair, he asked numerous times why he was being arrested.

Anyway I think the cops were wrong with their extreme measures for getting a guy to go off a microphone...

He was wrong for resisting, but I can only imagine how confused he was about the officers coming after him. They werent exactly explaining why they were arresting him.
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2007-09-18, 7:58 AM #23
AMERICANS ARE AT IT AGAIN
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TAZERBOYS.
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2007-09-18, 8:11 AM #24
TAZERS AND BURGERS
2007-09-18, 8:22 AM #25
this picture is hilarious
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2007-09-18, 9:10 AM #26
It's not all bad, because pigkilling in South Florida is on the rise. Maybe this trash will be next.
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2007-09-18, 9:12 AM #27
Wow, what a cock. If he had half a brain he would not have resisted and wouldn't have gotten in trouble. It's not like they were going to take him to one of those secret concentration camps the government has for whiny college kids who "take a stand". Gimme a break.

However, what the ****? ****ing uniforms think they get to decide what is an appropriate question? Whoever briefed them to remove people asking incendiary questions without warning or command ****ed up, that's NOT proper procedure, especially for a public event. Of course, maybe things are different for civilian secuirty. Though you might think that it would be even more "liberal" in strictness than how they taught me to treat people who want to char my body and hang it from a bridge.

Haha, Senator Kerry is the only one involved being reasonable. "no... let me answer his question" "If we'd all just try to calm down."

Comedy gold that the audience starts to clap until they realize what a ***** the guy is.

Man that was a cluster****.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2007-09-18, 9:18 AM #28
funny how all those people just sat there and watching it. WAY TO GO BURGERBOYS
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2007-09-18, 9:19 AM #29
Originally posted by landfish:
funny how all those people just sat there and watching it. WAY TO GO BURGERBOYS


Uni students.

What do you expect?
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2007-09-18, 9:26 AM #30
LOL, it's at UF..haha..I used to live down there..

Nobody knows how to spell Taser. :(

Hm. Beginning of the video, it looks like he was merely being escorted out, then he started resisting. He wasn't arrested for asking questions, as the misleading title suggests. All his yelling and screaming constitutes disorderly conduct as well...valid arrest, IMHO...

Originally posted by landfish:
funny how all those people just sat there and watching it. WAY TO GO BURGERBOYS


What, you think they should've attacked the cops? Bad idea.
woot!
2007-09-18, 9:26 AM #31
Over 200 years ago, if you got up in front of a crowd and shouted a message that wasn't look well upon, you got tarred and feathered. Today... you get tackled and tazered, muhahahhaha!
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2007-09-18, 9:29 AM #32
Originally posted by SavageX378:
Over 200 years ago, if you got up in front of a crowd and shouted a message that wasn't look well upon, you got tarred and feathered. Today... you get tackled and tazered, muhahahhaha!


TASER! :argh:
woot!
2007-09-18, 9:30 AM #33
Originally posted by stat:
It's not all bad, because pigkilling in South Florida is on the rise. Maybe this trash will be next.


Not a funny joke.

Also, listen to JLee, he speaks truth.
Warhead[97]
2007-09-18, 9:32 AM #34
Originally posted by JLee:
LOL, it's at UF..haha..I used to live down there..

Nobody knows how to spell Taser. :(

Hm. Beginning of the video, it looks like he was merely being escorted out, then he started resisting. He wasn't arrested for asking questions, as the misleading title suggests. All his yelling and screaming constitutes disorderly conduct as well...valid arrest, IMHO...


Oh it definitely turned into a valid arrest. However, there should have been a "sir, that is not an appropriate question, ask anothe or sit down" or the like from the officers. They took the initiative to take him right out, and IMO, they made a bad judgement.



Quote:
What, you think they should've attacked the cops? Bad idea.


They should have stood defiantly before the tank like at tiananmen square.

Until they got escorted out.

Oh burn.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2007-09-18, 9:33 AM #35
while i do not agree with him being REMOVED in the first place, once the police took the mike away everything after that was kind of his own fault.

1. at first he wasn't being arrested, he was just being escorted out.

2. as soon as he started being an idiot about it then they arrested him

3. as soon as he started struggling when he was "under arrest" he was resisting arrest, and fairly violently at some points. at this point police were doing everything by the book.
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2007-09-18, 9:33 AM #36
Originally posted by stat:
It's not all bad, because pigkilling in South Florida is on the rise. Maybe this trash will be next.


Pride, integrity, guts. You only wish you had some. ;)
woot!
2007-09-18, 9:39 AM #37
Interesting information for those of you who think an incomplete video always shows the whole story. ;)

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So I went to the John Kerry town hall forum this morning trying to get students registered to vote. I run a student government organization called Chomp the Vote. Anyway I went inside to watch the event. Senator Kerry took the podium and began delivering a speech about the Middle East, Iraq, dimplomacy, etc. Anyway, after he was done, a university ambassador asked Kerry a few premade questions. Once that was over, Senator Kerry announced he would take questions from the students. There were two
microphones placed on each side of the aisle. One on my side and the other on Andrew Meyer’s side. Senator Kerry began answering the student’s questions from each aisle. Eventually it was announced that there would only be a few more questions answered. Since Meyer and I were both in the back of each line, it did not seem likely that our questions would be answered.

However, while Senator Kerry was responding to a student’s question, all of a sudden Meyer rushed to the microphone with cops in pursuit. At that point no one knew what was going on. Could he have a gun, a bomb? Immediately, Meyer began yelling into the microphone that he had been waiting in line forever and that Senator Kerry should “spend time to answer everyone’s questions!” Senator Kerry tried to calm the student down by telling him that he would “stay here as long as it takes to get the questions answered.” The police approached Meyer who began taunting them by saying “what! are you going to taser me? are you going to arrest me?!” The police grabbed Meyer, but Senator Kerry asked the
police to let him go and that he would answer his question. Senator Kerry finished answering the other student’s question and then proceeded with Meyer. (*This entire scene is not in any video I can find so far. This is why 2 cops are seen right behind Meyer at the start of some videos*).

Meyer approached the microphone and began to talk about a book he had which stated that Kerry won the 2004 election because of disenfranchisement of black voters and faulty voter machines that produced “Bush” as the winner. He then posed another question about why President Bush had not been impeached. “President Clinton was impeached because of a blowjob, why not Bush?”. The third and strangest question he posed to Senator Kerry was asking him if he was part of the skull and bones society with Bush at
Yale. Meyer’s mic cut off after that, probably because he had mentioned the word “blowjob”. The cops grabbed him, but Meyer was able to get away several times. Eventually more cops were brought in to help subdue Meyer. Meyer continued to resist arrest, scream, curse; however he was enventually subdued by about six cops up around the entrance. As he is on the ground, he is told several times to put his hands around his back. He is also warned that he will be tasered if he does not comply. Eventually he is tasered twice. The video does not show whether he complied or not.

Senator Kerry was trying to answer his question to the audience, mostly the one about faulty voter machines. I am a die hard conservative Republican but I do respect Senator Kerry for trying to soothe the situation as best he could and trying not to escalate the situation. He DID intervene by letting the student at least present his question. I never received an opportunity to ask my question, but when Senator Kerry ended the show after the Meyer incident, he did come off stage to shake hands and give autographs. At that point, I was able to ask him my question, shake his hand, and get a autograph at the same time. Now why couldn’t Andrew Meyer do that?

I don’t know if this is relevant or not, but Andrew Meyer is a former sports writer for the school newspaper The Alligator. In his columns, he has been known to make ridiculous statements in order to gain attention for himself. Was today a publicity stunt?
woot!
2007-09-18, 9:39 AM #38
Originally posted by Chewbubba:
Awesome! I can see the future!

Student: "Excuse me, does anyone have the time?"

Security: "That's enough from you, bub!"

*taze taze*

Student: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!"

I'm going to see if our school board will let teachers carry a tazer to class. I think the benefits outweigh any argument anyone could bring against it.

Student: "Mr. Chewbubba, I need help with #3 on page 45."

Chewbubba: "Here's your help, punk!"

*taze taze*


Hee hee. I'm going to be security guard now.
2007-09-18, 9:41 AM #39
"Dont taze me dude! Ow! Ooooow! Ooooow!"

classic.
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2007-09-18, 9:45 AM #40
Originally posted by BobTheMasher:
Not a funny joke.


I'm not joking.

Let's say this, the day a cop actually does something good for me, I'll stop revelling in the stories of them being shot.
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