NationStates Jolt Archive


You Need a Permit for That!

SaintB
08-04-2009, 11:00
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30070062/?GT1=43001

DETROIT - Police in Detroit have ruffled some feathers after they cracked down on an organized pillow fight at a downtown park.


Anyone else expecting to see this one as a
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THREAT DOWN!
Urghu
08-04-2009, 12:06
Yeah, we should have a ban on pillows! Instead they should use guns for the fighting.

No more pillows unless you have a pillow license! And a three day waiting period when you buy on.
Blouman Empire
08-04-2009, 12:14
Next year they should make the women do it in their underwear *nods*
Gauthier
08-04-2009, 12:20
Yeah, we should have a ban on pillows! Instead they should use guns for the fighting.

No more pillows unless you have a pillow license! And a three day waiting period when you buy on.

If you criminalize pillows, only criminals will have pillows!
Ring of Isengard
08-04-2009, 12:27
Ridiculas/hilarious.
SaintB
08-04-2009, 12:36
Personally I am appalled... all the rampant crime and all the money being spent on the war on drugs, the war on crime, and the war on (you name it) and the police busy themselves by breaking up organized pillow fighting rings? :p

Seriously, I can understand the city of Detroit not wanting to clean up the mess but what if they agreed to clean it up?
Tsrill
08-04-2009, 12:39
Personally I am appalled... all the rampant crime and all the money being spent on the war on drugs, the war on crime, and the war on (you name it) and the police busy themselves by breaking up organized pillow fighting rings? :p

Seriously, I can understand the city of Detroit not wanting to clean up the mess but what if they agreed to clean it up?

You haven't heard yet about he war on pillows, I assume? :P
Urghu
08-04-2009, 12:53
If you criminalize pillows, only criminals will have pillows!

Yes, and then it would be much easier to find the criminals since they are the ones having the pillows.
Intestinal fluids
08-04-2009, 15:49
Yes, and then it would be much easier to find the criminals since they are the ones having the pillows.

And they will be easy to catch because they will be sleeping.
Lunatic Goofballs
08-04-2009, 16:17
Every time I fight the pillows, the pillows always win. But I refuse to give up!
United Anacreon
08-04-2009, 16:36
Shame on you! Pillows should only be banned! They have caused terrible harm. Assault pillows are the most unregulated weapons in America. It's such a shame to see the high detroit crime rate caused by Pillows. No pillows!
greed and death
08-04-2009, 18:59
Seems like the right call to me. I have a guess the pillow fight people would not have cleaned up their mess of feathers and cotton.
Also if they don't file a permit traffic can not be redirected around the area and freedom of speech is nice and all but it should not interfere with me getting to work on time.
Even if they stayed on the streets the feathers flying everywhere would have been a traffic hazard.
The pillow fighters didn't obey the rules and their event got pulled. They are lucky they didn't get arrested for causing safety issues.
Intangelon
08-04-2009, 19:03
Every time I fight the pillows, the pillows always win. But I refuse to give up!

*sings*

"I fought the down and the...down won."
Anti-Social Darwinism
08-04-2009, 19:16
You can have my pillow when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
Gauthier
08-04-2009, 19:41
Shame on you! Pillows should only be banned! They have caused terrible harm. Assault pillows are the most unregulated weapons in America. It's such a shame to see the high detroit crime rate caused by Pillows. No pillows!

Yes, look at this violent pillow-related riot on Wall Street following the revelation of AIG's Executive Bonuses:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sV4Ck-PY80

Police were helpless to anything but stand by and wait for the carnage to end.
greed and death
08-04-2009, 19:50
I should be a pillow vender at these things. charge jacked up prices for pillows.
Gauthier
08-04-2009, 20:16
I should be a pillow vender at these things. charge jacked up prices for pillows.

And then we nail you for war profiteering... unless we get a cut of course.
greed and death
08-04-2009, 20:18
And then we nail you for war profiteering... unless we get a cut of course.

Making a profit is not illegal. Damn hippies whining because is ell Pillows for 20 dollars pillow.
SaintB
09-04-2009, 04:56
Making a profit is not illegal.

But it should be!
Lunatic Goofballs
09-04-2009, 04:58
*sings*

"I fought the down and the...down won."

Down with down! :mad:
greed and death
09-04-2009, 05:01
But it should be!

Then there would be no motivation to make pillows and Pillow fights would never occur.
SaintB
09-04-2009, 05:02
Then there would be no motivation to make pillows and Pillow fights would never occur.

Kill the root, kill the problem!