CanuckInUSA 0 #1 November 1, 2004 You'd think that after 41 years of life, it would have happened sooner. But Saturday night I got to experience my first riot (as an observer not a participant). I was on the hill near the University of Colorado's campus on my way to a fellow skydivers bar (servicing the students of the hill) when I got to witness 1-2 thousand students clash with the local police. I do not think the students were innocent (shit many of them were very drunk), but the cops are not innocent as well. I guess the student of CU were upset that they lost their #1 party school status this year. Check out this link and click on the "More Photos" link to see some of the action. Oh and in one of the photos you'll see some people trying to tip an SUV on 10th and Euclid and my Jeep was parked on 10th between Euclid and Auroria. I guess I can count myself lucky that my Jeep was still in one piece after I left the bar. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
markd_nscr986 0 #2 November 1, 2004 people's republic of BOULDER!Marc SCR 6046 SCS 3004 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CornishChris 5 #3 November 1, 2004 Aaaah. Brings back memories of my first riot. I was 25 and on a weekend break to Paris with my parents and my then fiance, now wife. Everyone else had been struck down with some mystery french illness and so I went to the Louvre on my own. After two hours of getting lost and not seeing the Mona Lisa I had had enough so I decided to walk back to the hotel. I was walking along the side of a road, reading my Louvre guidebook, still trying to fathom exactly where they had hidden the Mona Lisa in the labyrinthine depths of the Louvre. I was pretty wrapped up in the book as I walked out in to Place du Concorde (a large square in central Paris) when I realised I was on my own. I had been walking with other people but now I was totally alone. I looked up to see that I was the only person standing in the whole of Place du Concorde. Now bearing in mind this is a Saturday afternoon this is pretty unusual. I suddenly heard a shouting from my left. I slowly turned round to see about 500 people right on the far side of the square holding banners and shouting across the square. I looked to where they were looking and was shocked by a large line of French Police behind riot shields advancing on my position. I am not really sure how I must have looked, stuck in no mans land but at the time it was not so amusing. The decision of which way to run was made for me by the police and so I advanced on the large group of people who weren't firing tear gas towards me. The next few minutes are a bit of a blur, in no small part due to the tear gas. Me and my fellow rioters were herded into a walled park. There were a few beatings going on and I remember dropping my guidebook during the frenzied running. Eventually I climbed a tree and vaulted over a wall to escape being arrested, then hid in a bar for a few hours til the coast was clear. When I finally got back to the hotel to explain my absence to my folks they already knew as it turned out I had made the local news! Aaah Paris. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
