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Posted: 9/12/2019 12:15:09 PM EST

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Pinatas!

Drone with Roman candles
Drone with bear spray
Drone with paintball/pepperball gun
Drone that can spray muratic acid

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:15:14 PM EST

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I couldn’t see their method of attachment to the bridge. I’m not sure what their recovery method would be. Let them swing until their bodies rot away would be my suggestion, but nobody’s asking me.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:15:48 PM EST

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Can big ships roll coal??

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:16:46 PM EST

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Douchebag Baytown PD running radar a mile past the bridge. Gotta really fuck over the working man today.

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Why you no like safety bro!

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:19:08 PM EST

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Yes and he is a rabid antigunner from California, fuck Art Acevedo with a rusty rake.

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He is Houston police chief. The sherriff department is handling this.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:19:58 PM EST

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I couldn’t see their method of attachment to the bridge. I’m not sure what their recovery method would be. Let them swing until their bodies rot away would be my suggestion, but nobody’s asking me.

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Nah, they likely have a way back up, even if it's people willing to come get them. Apply chemicals that desolve synthetic fibers and walk away. Gravity will take care of the rest.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:20:36 PM EST

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Yes and he is a rabid antigunner from California, fuck Art Acevedo with a rusty rake.

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Is your chief a ecoterrorist, or does he just like supporting terrorists?

Yes and he is a rabid antigunner from California, fuck Art Acevedo with a rusty rake.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:22:10 PM EST

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Cut rope.

Problem solved.

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The most simple, yet effective solution.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:22:30 PM EST

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Why is this so difficult?

Call out the boat cops.

Attach winch line to their line.
Disconnect their line.

Lower them to the waiting boat cops.
Slap cuffs on.
Repeat.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:26:23 PM EST

[#10]

charge them with the fee of the emergency services, and hit them with trespassing

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:26:25 PM EST

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Seems like an easy arrest to me but apparently HPD is worthless.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:27:46 PM EST

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Why is this so difficult?

Call out the boat cops.

Attach winch line to their line.
Disconnect their line.

Lower them to the waiting boat cops.
Slap cuffs on.
Repeat.

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Posted: 9/12/2019 12:30:09 PM EST

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And yet again the FPNI!

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:30:53 PM EST

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Put a helicopter under them then lift.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:31:36 PM EST

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They sure know how to warm my heart

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:31:52 PM EST

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Make it interesting. Put magnifying glasses over the knots.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:35:19 PM EST

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Looks like there's 175ish feet between the water and the bridge. Can a T-38 go supersonic that low? NASA has some based close to there. Or send a F-15/16/18/22/35 from Florida, or a B-1 from Dyess. Or all of the above, one after another.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:35:47 PM EST

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Why are they aiding the protesters by closing the bridge? Either just ignore them and let it be business as usual, or haul them up and arrest them. Ridiculous.

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You do know who runs Houston don't you?

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:35:48 PM EST

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The ones in bold are the reason for your delay. They closed the lanes.

The underlined idiots could have just been ignored and left to the forces of nature and Darwin.

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HSCO tac team on site. Baytown FD, county constables and HPD. I just cleared it. Terrorists apparently still swinging in the breeze.

The ones in bold are the reason for your delay. They closed the lanes.

The underlined idiots could have just been ignored and left to the forces of nature and Darwin.

On the one hand, I get why police are there. Those protestors are blocking marine traffic, hanging from a bridge, miss using emergency lanes, etc and need to be arrested. And on the other hand it would be quite easy to simply ignore them or at least simply have officers observe them until after road traffic has died down and then arrest them.

The agents of the state don’t like being left out of a party and their political masters both insist on intervention and are quite taken by tales of interventions effectiveness. The necessity to intervene is directly triggered by the actions of the protestors. They did this knowing that it would be disruptive and that they would be arrested. They have lawyers on standby and that arrest is a badge of honor in the environmental community.

And yet the necessity to intervene is also reciprocally created by law enforcement and political leadership. The politicians demand that something be done, and police do something, the response becomes standard procedure, the politicians avoid blame by hiding behind standard procedure and the cops act under the politicians mandate.

The fourth layer is the risk of a disordered public response. Look at this thread for examples. We can’t have ordinary citizens hauling up, beating, peeing on or arresting protestors. The immediate risk is mob violence, rope cutting, ship ramming etc. The systemic risk is any tolerance of aggressive self help/mob violence/vigilante justice.

It’s a giant expensive self justifying circle. The protest is both a publicity stunt and a marginally effective social hack of a system that feels compelled to intervene.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:36:31 PM EST

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These fuckers have ruined my schedule. I’m sitting on that bridge at this very moment. Fuck those fucking fuckers all to hell.

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Well go on over to these idiots & do something about it

My suggestion is to pour honey down the ropes.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:38:25 PM EST

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He is Houston police chief. The sherriff department is handling this.

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The video makes it look like HPD is on site and others have reported them as being on site.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:38:45 PM EST

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I’ve got so many ideas....

Send fire ants down the ropes....
Start soaking the ropes in fuel....
Start a 10 minute timer and every time it goes off cut one of them down....
Lower a hornets nest down on a rope....

This could be fun.

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Just pulling one up a few feet & dropping it would be fun.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:39:56 PM EST

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The video makes it look like HPD is on site and others have reported them as being on site.

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In the article the sheriff department was quoted.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:39:57 PM EST

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Are you fucking kidding me

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Contact your mayor, it's their call to tolerate this.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:41:08 PM EST

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Looks like there's 175ish feet between the water and the bridge. Can a T-38 go supersonic that low? NASA has some based close to there. Or send a F-15/16/18/22/35 from Florida, or a B-1 from Dyess. Or all of the above, one after another.

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A rising CH-53 under them would be fun.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:41:42 PM EST

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These fuckers have ruined my schedule. I’m sitting on that bridge at this very moment. Fuck those fucking fuckers all to hell.

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EDC pocket knife? Make yourself famous!

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:41:50 PM EST

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Spray them and the lines their hanging from with OC spray and walk away.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:43:18 PM EST

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Who is in charge of the ship channel? The coast guard?

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:48:27 PM EST

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These fuckers have ruined my schedule. I’m sitting on that bridge at this very moment. Fuck those fucking fuckers all to hell.

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Someone should figure up the fuel burned per hour by traffic sitting at idle due to their stunt and reply to their tweet with that figure.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:50:07 PM EST

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EDC pocket knife? Make yourself famous!

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I had to go. Running hard to Beaumont to catch a ship before they sail.

I’ll settle the score with that terrorist group another time, in my own way.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:50:09 PM EST

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That is all

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:51:51 PM EST

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They rigged all that and nobody noticed them doing it? How long would that take?

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:52:17 PM EST

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Despite being the energy capital of the world, Houston is not even a purplish city anymore. In 2018 the Blue Wave pushed out all Republicans.

Thanks to the booming oil economy the city has had a huge influx of people coming from outside the state. That’s how Houston gets statesman like Sylvester Turner as mayor, Austin’s awful police chief reject, and a 27 yr old dipshit as county judge.

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:52:47 PM EST

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Posted: 9/12/2019 12:53:24 PM EST

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He is Houston police chief. The sherriff department is handling this.

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A person there posted that HPD has cars on the bridge. @m35ben

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:54:43 PM EST

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Who is in charge of the ship channel? The coast guard?

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Homeland security maritime

Posted: 9/12/2019 12:56:57 PM EST

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Bet they did not walk there!!!!!

Posted: 9/12/2019 1:00:26 PM EST

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A person there posted that HPD has cars on the bridge. @m35ben

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He is Houston police chief. The sherriff department is handling this.

A person there posted that HPD has cars on the bridge. @m35ben

Since the tac team was sheriff, I’m going to assume HPD presence was moral support/on scene reporting.

Speaking of reporters, KHOU, Univision and one other Mexican outfit. That was it for media.

Posted: 9/12/2019 1:01:37 PM EST

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Let them hang. Block 1 lane and let life happen.

Posted: 9/12/2019 1:01:52 PM EST

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Since the tac team was sheriff, I’m going to assume HPD presence was moral support/on scene reporting.

Speaking of reporters, KHOU, Univision and one other Mexican outfit. That was it for media.

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Thanks! I still hate Acevedo.

Posted: 9/12/2019 1:02:57 PM EST

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Let them.

Posted: 9/12/2019 1:04:25 PM EST

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Just pulling one up a few feet & dropping it would be fun.

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I’ll allow it....the way I see it, they fucked with the motorist / boats....those people should be allowed to return the favor.

Posted: 9/12/2019 1:07:16 PM EST

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I'm gonna side with Greenpeace and drain the oil out of my crankcase. I'll show everybody!!!!

Posted: 9/12/2019 1:09:05 PM EST

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what kind of harnesses do these idiots have on that they think they will hang in them for 24 hrs

gonna be some circulation loss and limbs coming off after this