ELPD

Robert J Sakimano wrote:as a tax-paying permanent citizen of East Lansing, I'm glad to see the ELPD doing their job..

InTenSity wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:as a tax-paying permanent citizen of East Lansing, I'm glad to see the ELPD doing their job..

Which school is it that 8 city blocks are shut down when they make it to the final game? There is another school, where I swear, they have a designated area in which to burn couches or anything else. ELPD are nothing more than bullies.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

InTenSity wrote:
Which school is it that 8 city blocks are shut down when they make it to the final game? There is another school, where I swear, they have a designated area in which to burn couches or anything else. ELPD are nothing more than bullies.

okay..

maybe these fine citizens should transfer to those schools.

InTenSity wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
okay..

maybe these fine citizens should transfer to those schools.

Maybe there is no need to be out in riot gear when there isn't a riot. Instigating a riot, by wearing riot gear, and randomly arresting students for just being present (although I'm sure they will use the MIP to arrest them) doesn't sound right to most people. Maybe you enjoy a police state.

InTenSity wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
okay..

maybe these fine citizens should transfer to those schools.

Maybe there is no need to be out in riot gear when there isn't a riot. Instigating a riot, by wearing riot gear, and randomly arresting students for just being present (although I'm sure they will use the MIP to arrest them) doesn't sound right to most people. Maybe you enjoy a police state.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

InTenSity wrote:

Maybe there is no need to be out in riot gear when there isn't a riot. Instigating a riot, by wearing riot gear, and randomly arresting students for just being present (although I'm sure they will use the MIP to arrest them) doesn't sound right to most people. Maybe you enjoy a police state.

I wasn't there.. and I'm certainly not going to rely on the Mlive or the Lansing State Urinal for an accurate account of what happened - when their sole existence is dependent upon sensationalizing a storyline for the purpose of getting online traffic.

so, yeah, if you're asking if I believe the ELPD versus the State Urinal or a few of spoiled brat kids who are likely whining to the parents right now about how mean the police are, I'll go with the ELPD.

InTenSity wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:as a tax-paying permanent citizen of East Lansing, I'm glad to see the ELPD doing their job..

Which school is it that 8 city blocks are shut down when they make it to the final game? There is another school, where I swear, they have a designated area in which to burn couches or anything else. ELPD are nothing more than bullies.

tTito wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
I wasn't there.. and I'm certainly not going to rely on the Mlive or the Lansing State Urinal for an accurate account of what happened - when their sole existence is dependent upon sensationalizing a storyline for the purpose of getting online traffic.

so, yeah, if you're asking if I believe the ELPD versus the State Urinal or a few of spoiled brat kids who are likely whining to the parents right now about how mean the police are, I'll go with the ELPD.

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I really hate cops.

steveschneider wrote:100% true story, I was on the old RCMB board and I made a post about how dumb it was to riot or telling some other poster not to take it out on the cops.

Whatever, but about 15 minutes later an ELPD person PM'd me and thanked me for my post. Guy was on the board posing as a poster observing the people. He even gave me a suggestion of what I could post to win the argument against the other person.

So yeah, just a heads up the ELPD is on that board monitoring it as well as the rods.

steveschneider wrote:100% true story, I was on the old RCMB board and I made a post about how dumb it was to riot or telling some other poster not to take it out on the cops.

Whatever, but about 15 minutes later an ELPD person PM'd me and thanked me for my post. Guy was on the board posing as a poster observing the people. He even gave me a suggestion of what I could post to win the argument against the other person.

So yeah, just a heads up the ELPD is on that board monitoring it as well as the rods.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

steveschneider wrote:100% true story, I was on the old RCMB board and I made a post about how dumb it was to riot or telling some other poster not to take it out on the cops.

Whatever, but about 15 minutes later an ELPD person PM'd me and thanked me for my post. Guy was on the board posing as a poster observing the people. He even gave me a suggestion of what I could post to win the argument against the other person.

So yeah, just a heads up the ELPD is on that board monitoring it as well as the rods.

Did you ask him what mistakes he made in his life that led him go being the guy that is assigned to reading a message board full of mostly 30+ year old dudes instead of doing real cop shit?

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

steveschneider wrote:100% true story, I was on the old RCMB board and I made a post about how dumb it was to riot or telling some other poster not to take it out on the cops.

Whatever, but about 15 minutes later an ELPD person PM'd me and thanked me for my post. Guy was on the board posing as a poster observing the people. He even gave me a suggestion of what I could post to win the argument against the other person.

So yeah, just a heads up the ELPD is on that board monitoring it as well as the rods.

Did you ask him what mistakes he made in his life that led him go being the guy that is assigned to reading a message board full of mostly 30+ year old dudes instead of doing real cop shit?

steveschneider wrote:100% true story, I was on the old RCMB board and I made a post about how dumb it was to riot or telling some other poster not to take it out on the cops.

Whatever, but about 15 minutes later an ELPD person PM'd me and thanked me for my post. Guy was on the board posing as a poster observing the people. He even gave me a suggestion of what I could post to win the argument against the other person.

So yeah, just a heads up the ELPD is on that board monitoring it as well as the rods.

steveschneider wrote:100% true story, I was on the old RCMB board and I made a post about how dumb it was to riot or telling some other poster not to take it out on the cops.

Whatever, but about 15 minutes later an ELPD person PM'd me and thanked me for my post. Guy was on the board posing as a poster observing the people. He even gave me a suggestion of what I could post to win the argument against the other person.

So yeah, just a heads up the ELPD is on that board monitoring it as well as the rods.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

steveschneider wrote:100% true story, I was on the old RCMB board and I made a post about how dumb it was to riot or telling some other poster not to take it out on the cops.

Whatever, but about 15 minutes later an ELPD person PM'd me and thanked me for my post. Guy was on the board posing as a poster observing the people. He even gave me a suggestion of what I could post to win the argument against the other person.

So yeah, just a heads up the ELPD is on that board monitoring it as well as the rods.

I'm surprised he didn't get banned for having an opinion different from that of someone else..

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

steveschneider wrote:100% true story, I was on the old RCMB board and I made a post about how dumb it was to riot or telling some other poster not to take it out on the cops.

Whatever, but about 15 minutes later an ELPD person PM'd me and thanked me for my post. Guy was on the board posing as a poster observing the people. He even gave me a suggestion of what I could post to win the argument against the other person.

So yeah, just a heads up the ELPD is on that board monitoring it as well as the rods.

That's kind of fucked up.

So this seems to be a good a time as any to tell my riot story. I got sucked up in the '99 Final Four riot. We spent all day at Crunchy's. Like from noon until after the game ended. I'm pretty much plastered by the end of the game. Everyone starts emptying out and I'm walking back to our house on Orchard St. On the walk back, in my drunken stupor I'm noticing that Grand River is being taken over by drunk students/locals.

I wouldn't say it was a festive atmosphere seeing how we just lost, but there's some light hearted shenanigans taking place as everyone is emptying out from the bars, basically as drunk as I am. The closer i get to Orchard, the argrier the crowd seems to be getting. Kids are trying to tear down signs by this point. I heard some doofus yell out "Free Taco Bell!" We get back to the corner of Grand and Orchard and I can hear the crowd and see the fires coming from Cedar Village. I want to go check it out. Dumb move, but I was a dumb drunk college kid back then.

By this time I'm separated from everyone I know and I run into a huge crowd around a cop car as a few dumbasses are in the process of flipping it. It finally dawns on me that this is not the place to be. I start stumbling back to Orchard. I make it back to Grand in time to run into a line of riot cops. I'm in the middle of the street by myself and just as I think to myself, "Hey Pylon, you are in the wrong place, might want to get the fuck outta here." A cop pulls a gun on me and pops off a tear gas canister at my feet. I'm freaking out. At first thinking I was going to get shot, and then trying to figure out what the hell the cop shot at me. I stand there and take a full tear gas canister point blank. That was the 2nd time I thought I was going to die in the span of about 10 seconds. That sent me bolting back to our house.

To this day I wonder if that cop thought I was a threat or if he was just using me as target practice.

TL;DR: Got drunk during the '99 riot. Was dumb and went to Cedar Village. Got shot point blank by a tear gas canister.

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

steveschneider wrote:100% true story, I was on the old RCMB board and I made a post about how dumb it was to riot or telling some other poster not to take it out on the cops.

Whatever, but about 15 minutes later an ELPD person PM'd me and thanked me for my post. Guy was on the board posing as a poster observing the people. He even gave me a suggestion of what I could post to win the argument against the other person.

So yeah, just a heads up the ELPD is on that board monitoring it as well as the rods.

That's kind of fucked up.

So this seems to be a good a time as any to tell my riot story. I got sucked up in the '99 Final Four riot. We spent all day at Crunchy's. Like from noon until after the game ended. I'm pretty much plastered by the end of the game. Everyone starts emptying out and I'm walking back to our house on Orchard St. On the walk back, in my drunken stupor I'm noticing that Grand River is being taken over by drunk students/locals.

I wouldn't say it was a festive atmosphere seeing how we just lost, but there's some light hearted shenanigans taking place as everyone is emptying out from the bars, basically as drunk as I am. The closer i get to Orchard, the argrier the crowd seems to be getting. Kids are trying to tear down signs by this point. I heard some doofus yell out "Free Taco Bell!" We get back to the corner of Grand and Orchard and I can hear the crowd and see the fires coming from Cedar Village. I want to go check it out. Dumb move, but I was a dumb drunk college kid back then.

By this time I'm separated from everyone I know and I run into a huge crowd around a cop car as a few dumbasses are in the process of flipping it. It finally dawns on me that this is not the place to be. I start stumbling back to Orchard. I make it back to Grand in time to run into a line of riot cops. I'm in the middle of the street by myself and just as I think to myself, "Hey Pylon, you are in the wrong place, might want to get the fuck outta here." A cop pulls a gun on me and pops off a tear gas canister at my feet. I'm freaking out. At first thinking I was going to get shot, and then trying to figure out what the hell the cop shot at me. I stand there and take a full tear gas canister point blank. That was the 2nd time I thought I was going to die in the span of about 10 seconds. That sent me bolting back to our house.

To this day I wonder if that cop thought I was a threat or if he was just using me as target practice.

TL;DR: Got drunk during the '99 riot. Was dumb and went to Cedar Village. Got shot point blank by a tear gas canister.

NigelUno wrote:

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:



That's kind of fucked up.

So this seems to be a good a time as any to tell my riot story. I got sucked up in the '99 Final Four riot. We spent all day at Crunchy's. Like from noon until after the game ended. I'm pretty much plastered by the end of the game. Everyone starts emptying out and I'm walking back to our house on Orchard St. On the walk back, in my drunken stupor I'm noticing that Grand River is being taken over by drunk students/locals.

I wouldn't say it was a festive atmosphere seeing how we just lost, but there's some light hearted shenanigans taking place as everyone is emptying out from the bars, basically as drunk as I am. The closer i get to Orchard, the argrier the crowd seems to be getting. Kids are trying to tear down signs by this point. I heard some doofus yell out "Free Taco Bell!" We get back to the corner of Grand and Orchard and I can hear the crowd and see the fires coming from Cedar Village. I want to go check it out. Dumb move, but I was a dumb drunk college kid back then.

By this time I'm separated from everyone I know and I run into a huge crowd around a cop car as a few dumbasses are in the process of flipping it. It finally dawns on me that this is not the place to be. I start stumbling back to Orchard. I make it back to Grand in time to run into a line of riot cops. I'm in the middle of the street by myself and just as I think to myself, "Hey Pylon, you are in the wrong place, might want to get the fuck outta here." A cop pulls a gun on me and pops off a tear gas canister at my feet. I'm freaking out. At first thinking I was going to get shot, and then trying to figure out what the hell the cop shot at me. I stand there and take a full tear gas canister point blank. That was the 2nd time I thought I was going to die in the span of about 10 seconds. That sent me bolting back to our house.

To this day I wonder if that cop thought I was a threat or if he was just using me as target practice.

TL;DR: Got drunk during the '99 riot. Was dumb and went to Cedar Village. Got shot point blank by a tear gas canister.

What do you mean?  He pulled a gun on you?  He pointed it at you, and said don't move?

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

NigelUno wrote:

What do you mean?  He pulled a gun on you?  He pointed it at you, and said don't move?

It was a tear gas canister "launcher"? I don't know the exact term. But it sure as shit looked like a gun in the dark. Didn't say a word. ELPD gonna ELPD.

I think it looked something like this.

CORNER BLITZ wrote:

InTenSity wrote:
Which school is it that 8 city blocks are shut down when they make it to the final game? There is another school, where I swear, they have a designated area in which to burn couches or anything else. ELPD are nothing more than bullies.

When we had the UNC "riots" a couple of their fans came to tRCMB and said basically...

'That's it? That's a riot? People are getting arrested fit that? We've got an area that looks like that (cedar village) and the cops/fire dept just close the streets off so cars can't go through and let the students do whatever. If a fire starts they let it go for a few minutes, then fire dept comes in, puts it out, and goes back outside the barricade. Eventually it dies down and students leave. No problems. No arrests. '