• Occupy Geriatrics: Seniors in Walkers Shut Down Local Bank of America
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[url]http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/01/occupy_geriatrics_seniors_in_w.php[/url] [quote]What some healthy and spry Occupy Movements across the nation couldn't quite accomplish, San Francisco [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatrics"]geriatrics [/URL]have! [URL="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/05/wild-old-women-close-san-francisco-bank-of-america-branch/"]KCBS reports[/URL] that a small group of senior citizens between the ages of 69 and 82 successfully shut down a Bank of America in Bernal Heights on Thursday with nothing more than walkers and oxygen tanks. That's right: No shouting, chanting, tear gas, or window-smashing. The group, which dubbed itself "Wild Old Women" set up camp right outside the [URL="https://www.bankofamerica.com/"]BofA[/URL], holding signs in what they were calling "a run on the bank." While the protesters said they had no intention (or oxygen) of storming the bank, as occupiers in other communities have done, officials at Bank of America shut the doors and locked them as they spotted the slow-moving group make its way to the front of the bank. So the seniors took a seat outside the bank where they explained their demands, which were no different than every other occupiers: They want lower fees, and they want the bank to pay higher taxes and stop the foreclosures. "We're upset about what the banks are doing, particularly in our neighborhood and neighboring areas, in evicting people and foreclosing on their homes," 80-year-old Tita Caldwell [URL="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/05/wild-old-women-close-san-francisco-bank-of-america-branch/"]told KCBS reporters[/URL]. "We're upset because the banks are raising their rates, because it really affects seniors who are on a fixed income." And that's just no way to spend your Golden Years. [/quote] [img]http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/assets_c/2012/01/granny-thumb-250x270.jpg[/img]
Hell yeah. Go old people.
Old Men. Are the Future.
Well done is all I have to say. Shows not only "college kids with no jobs and hipsters" (which has been said about the 99% movement) are concerned with what's happening.
[QUOTE=XplodingNoggin;34103622]Old Men. Are the Future.[/QUOTE] In a world run by old men...
[quote]While the protesters said they had no intention (or oxygen) of storming the bank[/quote] I'm missing the point of the pun... Old people have oxygen tanks but how does that fit there
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;34104267]I'm missing the point of the pun... Old people have oxygen tanks but how does that fit there[/QUOTE] Well if they had no oxygen tanks, then they'd have little or no oxygen.
[QUOTE=demoguyO8;34103642]Well done is all I have to say. Shows not only "college kids with no jobs and hipsters" (which has been said about the 99% movement) are concerned with what's happening.[/QUOTE] To believe that fallacy is falling into their propaganda. It's foolish to think that Occupy is all hipsters
[QUOTE=Bryanrocks0;34103548]The group, which dubbed itself [B][U]"Wild Old Women"[/U][/B][/QUOTE] [QUOTE=XplodingNoggin;34103622]Old Men. Are the Future.[/QUOTE] Nope
Don't trust anyone over thirty... Er... Eighty-Two!
A bunch of dirty, drug addicted, whoring, hippy college kids obviously. Don't believe the lies of them commie socialists.
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;34104267]I'm missing the point of the pun... Old people have oxygen tanks but how does that fit there[/QUOTE] I was hoping that there was some archaic meaning for the word oxygen and that the pun was really clever but I think it's just a terrible pun
That's awesome. Also, great picture
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