Cops seize Occupy Boston’s sink, spawning flood of bad puns - Polidicks

[url]http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/02/cops-seize-occupy-bostons-sink-spawning-flood-of-bad-puns/[/url] [quote] When riot police invaded the Occupy Boston encampment on Thursday evening and carried off a kitchen sink that had recently been [URL="http://bostinno.com/2011/12/01/boston-police-occupy-boston-battle-over-a-kitchen-sink-yes-a-sink/"]donated[/URL] by MIT, the initial reaction was one of outrage. As [URL="http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/12/01/380357/cops-invade-occupy-boston-to-steal-its-sink/"]described[/URL] by Brad Johnson at Think Progress, “Police seized the newly donated graywater sink and tossed it into the back of a police wagon, as other police with flex cuffs blocked occupiers. Dozens of motorcycle police arrived. A brief skirmish ensued as some protesters linked arms to block the wagon from leaving. In the ensuing sink seizure chaos, occupier Suzi Pietroluongo was stepped on by a police officer. When the police wagon sped off, the back doors were open and the sink was hanging out.” Very quickly, however, the great sink raid became a source of humor, both on Twitter and at message boards, and the incident spawned such hashtags as #sinkgate and #occupythesink. Within a few hours, the sink even had its own Twitter account at [URL="https://twitter.com/OccBostonSink"]@OccBostonSink[/URL]. “America is in a sad state when a #sink is a political prisoner… FREE THE SINK!” one supporter [URL="https://twitter.com/#%21/jaykelly26/status/142475016905297920"]tweeted[/URL]. Another [URL="https://twitter.com/#%21/radicaloptimist/status/142499033464848385"]philosophized[/URL], “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they take your #sink, then you win.” Meanwhile, posters at the Democratic Underground message board were chiming in with [URL="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x639528"]criticisms[/URL] such as “Who would have thought that they could sink this low…” and [URL="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2413515"]slogans[/URL] like “We are the 99 persink, the whole world is washing!” They also repeated some of the best lines from the live chat at [URL="http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution"]globalrevolution.org[/URL], including “Are they waterboarding the sink?” and “It was running when they caught it.”[/quote] [editline]3rd December 2011[/editline] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XeU5k_XT04&feature=player_embedded[/media]

Those fucking terrorist sinks

I guess the cops took everything [I]and[/I] the kitchen sink.

damn, i bet those occupy protestors had that sinking feeling....

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;33546533]I guess the cops took everything [I]and[/I] the kitchen sink.[/QUOTE] YES! Was waiting for someone to make that joke. You sir win a cookie.

Maybe one of the police officers needed a new sink.

fuck that sink

It took me two viewings of the video for the gravity of the situation to really sink in.

And they needed a huge industrial sized sink for what, exactly? [editline]3rd December 2011[/editline] And where were they planning on getting the water? I think these Occupies are taking the expression "everything but the kitchen sink" a bit too literally. :v:

The cops took the kitchen sink but everything.

That movement went down the drain real fast

Someone should have jumped into the sink would've been rather funny.

...Why just the sink?

Give me sink, or give me death!

fuck the police

Even the sink gets in trouble.

I thought this was a protest, not a hardware store.

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;33546792]And they needed a huge industrial sized sink for what, exactly? [editline]3rd December 2011[/editline] And where were they planning on getting the water? I think these Occupies are taking the expression "everything but the kitchen sink" a bit too literally. :v:[/QUOTE] MIT donated it, kitchen sinks are a long running joke in the hacker community.

wow, the police's credibility just went down the drain...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2BvETo9k2A[/media] He pretty much sums up what police ACTUALLY did up til 3:00 They threw the sink at someone and RAN OVER some girl too.

[QUOTE=timothy80;33547361]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2BvETo9k2A He pretty much sums up what police ACTUALLY did up til 3:00 They threw the sink at someone and RAN OVER some girl too.[/QUOTE] This and the article: Wow. America has [I]literally[/I] become a [I]satire[/I] of itself. Cops [I]literally[/I] taking everything and the kitchen sink. Cops sending provocateurs and ex-cons in attempts to stir up trouble. Cops breaking more laws than the people they're arresting. America: land of the self-parody.

How could they sink to this low?

[QUOTE=Last or First;33547464] Cops sending provocateurs and ex-cons in attempts to stir up trouble. [/QUOTE] [citation needed]

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;33546533]I guess the cops took everything [I]and[/I] the kitchen sink.[/QUOTE] I don't get it

[QUOTE=KillerTele;33550938]I don't get it[/QUOTE] It's an old phrase 'Everything but the kitchen sink'.

[QUOTE=Smasher 006;33550970]It's an old phrase 'Everything but the kitchen sink'.[/QUOTE] Ah, never heard it.

Ever get that sinking feeling? Yeah, the police do now. [editline]4th December 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=KillerTele;33550982]Ah, never heard it.[/QUOTE] Means you are not old enough to remember

I still don't get [i]why the fuck[/i] they took the sink. Just makes everything more of a dirty mess than it already is. People need to wash their hands you prick cops.

U.S.A. is really sinking.

[QUOTE]“We are the 99 persink, the whole world is washing!” [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]“It was running when they caught it.”[/QUOTE] oh god my sides