Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

New Hampshire

Showing Original Post only (View all)

MADem

(135,425 posts)
Wed Oct 22, 2014, 03:40 AM Oct 2014

Scott BROWN RUNS AWAY!!! Hilarious!!!!!!!! [View all]

http://wonkette.com/563756/scott-brown-flees-pumpkin-festival-ahead-of-bloody-riot


It’s The Great Pumpkin Riot, Scott Brown






Now that he’s running for Senate in New Hampshire, former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown is totally A Guy From New Hampshire who would never miss the New Hampshirest of all possible events, the Pumpkin Festival in Keene. Even though this folksy college town was a powder keg of white rage just waiting to explode into pumpkin-splattered violence. While Scott was connecting with law-abiding harvest revelers, mobs of angry white youth wreaked havoc just around the corner.

Tear gas filled the air as police in riot gear descended on Keene, New Hampshire, trying to disperse a rowdy crowd that brought chaos to the city’s 24th annual Pumpkin Festival… CNN affiliates reported dozens of arrests and the Southwest New Hampshire Mutual Aid Dispatch Center reported multiple ambulances being sent to the scene.




High on love for pumpkins and saturated in a few metric tons of alcohol, these thugs kept police busy all day and night as they tipped over dumpsters, pulled street signs out of the ground, and flipped cars. By 10:00, bonfires were burning in the street, and the governor had shown up to take charge of “the situation.”



....Scott Brown evidently escaped the wilding white mob altogether, more concerned with his own safety and photo-ops than with showing True Leadership. As students were rioting all around him, injuring each other with bottles of Bud Light, Brown, with his gift for youth outreach, could have waded in and played peacemaker, transforming himself overnight into an inter-generational statesman. Instead, he seemed oblivious to the palpable and growing anger of the community toward the cops. And pumpkins.





More at link!
8 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Latest Discussions»Region Forums»New Hampshire»Scott BROWN RUNS AWAY!!! ...»Reply #0