When you teargas a smooth hacky-sacker

Just imagine how awesome things could be if we started shipping crates of lacrosse sticks to the middle east…

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Seeing such a burning canister sailing a few centimetres past your ear is quite impressive. Suddenly you feel taken out of an expression of civil dissent and into a war zone.

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A couple of accessories and you’re all set for protesting:

And if you’re in the US, you’ll be needing a bullet-proof vest. Actually, that last one seems a bit redundant, considering the number of innocent citizens being murdered by cops these days…

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Possibly useful:
Protesters neutralizing teargas canisters Istanbul

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Of course. Just like nearly everyone outside the US.
Source: Growing up in Brazil. [citation needed]

The second time I’ve seen actual hacky sacking was during a design course in the ‘humanities’ campus of university. The first time, years earlier, was this:

Great idea. Get Canada involved. That’s their national sport. That, and beer. And poutine. And Tim Hortons.

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We’re from SoCal, and recently had to drive to an area with (shudder) snow. Luckily we had a Canadian with us, who handled the snow riving quite deftly.

The explanation was apparently that Canadians are part Ice, part maple syrup, and part Moose.

(or maybe she was just used to driving in snow having grown up in it)

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You are what you eat?

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