On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 09:01:56AM -0800, Tim May wrote: > On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 08:42 AM, Ed Norton wrote: > >I haven't seen anyone mention this here, and wonder if it's being > >reported out there "West of the Hudson"...
It's been done here in San Francisco as well.
Actually, they always have support people to bring them food and water. No problem. It's a fairly effective tactic.
And I'm sure the police are happy to bring them all the coke and coffee they want to drink while leaving them chained up...
And later Tim wrote "Private Property"> I came to this realization when a pair of demonstrators chained > themselves to a gate at a lumber company in Northern California. "You > made your bed, now you can lie in it."
There are some cases where it's private property, but others where it's street or sidewalk blockage, and while some of the police may want to let them stay until they starve, they don't want traffic blocked in the Financial District, and haven't thought of bringing lots of rotten tomatoes for the motorists to use.
In many cases, the protestors _do_ have keys to their handcuffs, so they can unlock themselves if they want; it's just tough for other people to do the job with the PVC pipes in the way, as opposed to regular handcuffs which bolt cutters take care of quickly. (Besides, you want to have a handy set of spare handcuff keys in case the police haul you away after they get you unlocked....)
The cases where they don't have keys are usually much rarer -
the guy who handcuffed himself to something where the area was
going to be flooded by a new dam, etc., and usually that's not private property.
