Purling In Anger: Arrest Breaks Up 'Knit-In' At Vermont Utility

[Ronin]

[quote]A "knit-in" was broken up in South Burlington on Wednesday, after five women who are unhappy with a Vermont Gas pipeline plan occupied the utility's waiting room — and occupied themselves by knitting.

One woman was bound off by police, taken away in what Vermont Public Radio says were five squad cars that responded to perhaps the most civil of all disobediences.

The knitters insisted on speaking to Vermont Gas officials about their complaints over a pipeline expansion. They were told they needed an appointment; after the utility's headquarters closed, they were warned that they were trespassing.

Jane Palmer, a diminutive woman in a floral-print dress and a straw hat, was arrested about 30 minutes after the offices closed.[/quote]

And the most important of all questions has yet to be answered.

[quote]"It is unclear if she was allowed to continue her knitting at the police station," he adds.[/quote]

[url=http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/03/328163481/purling-in-anger-arrest-breaks-up-knit-in-at-vermont-utility?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140703]Read More at NPR[/url]

4 of the 5 women own land that is in the path of the pipeline, for some reason the guy who wrote the article left that wonderfully relevant piece of information out.

[proboardslol]

[quote]One woman was ... taken away in ... five squad cars[/quote]

Dear god the brutality

[Mattk50]

[QUOTE=proboardslol;45288088]Dear god the brutality[/QUOTE]

dont worry, they only took her knitting fingers.