Snowstorm, Cold Makes Life In Zuccotti Park Difficult For OWS Protesters

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• Weather like shit happens, OWS can deal with it, if for some reason they all turn out looking like frosty the homeless man one morning, I saw just use a snow-blower to get them out of the way...Kinda like a cheap version of FARGO....

  • If enough of them freeze, just push them out into the streets and use them for human pucks. Human Hockey?

    • nice likwid.
      maybe bobsleds with real bobs? a la the simpson's?

• OWS-This doesn't bother me whatsoever. If you WORKED for a living, you might own a few of the items you need for cold wether. I got everything I need for almost anykind of survival and I live in the desert. And the pampered wife even has a portapotty and solar shower. The enviroment has no heart when it comes to surviving so the OWS worthless lazy bums can spread their STDs, steal, mooch, go hungry, and freeze. Who cares?

• warms my heart.

  • Ah, but you're a warmhearted kind of guy, Robert.

    • aw gee whilickers, thanks RHG.

      "...so we’re completely, completely off the grid,”

      Completely, completely off your nut.

• Give them till Thanksgiving, when it really starts getting cold. But looking at the bright side, they won't need to refrigerate the bodies, they'll be pre-frozen.

• Ahhhh....the perks of Global Warming!

• It obviously isn't causing enough trouble, because they are still there. Freeze their asses off, and no breaks inside businesses. If they want to ocvcupy the street (park) they can stay outside.

• Stationary bike generator system, huh?

  I take it none of them have an engineering degree. Let's see, 10 bikes, times 200 watts per person , and you get 2000 watts. Sound like a lot? Well, plug in a space heater and a microwave, and you're done.

  And I'm betting the organizers will have the power all going to their tent. After all, you can't have the glorious leaders living in the same condition as the followers, can you?

  • "Comrades!" he cried. "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples."

    --George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

  • We're off the grid! This little group is about to get a harsh lesson in the real world limitations of green energy with their bike generator system. I know what it takes to maintain 2oo watts of power at the crank on a stationary bike for an extended period of time. While I'm sure the power required might be different between a bike driven genny and a bike trainig power meter, I don't think they'll have enough 'capable' volunteers to generate a steady supply of reliable power. Then they're going to have a wet with sweat rider to cool down and dry off, then keep warm, then bathe, then feed extra rations. Say they can find riders and run a new rider every hour. That's 24X they have to deal with the previously mentioned concerns every day. This to generate enough power to run a laptop and two 20W lightbulbs. Brilliant!

    • Obama DID mention that under his Administration, the cost of energy would skyrocket. So get on that bike, occupyer. You got a lot of work to do. There, now I've done it. I mentioned that four-letter word.

• Part of me is dripping with sarcasm with this question, but another part is stunned and totally serious; if they have 400k+, why are they "begging" or in need of anything?

  • Rumor has it Comrade #1 has a numbered Swiss bank account. He's just following "each to his needs, each to his ability." He needs a retirement fund and has the ability to abscond with the money.

• Remind me to cry later.