APEC Insecurity, Part the Second: Attack of the Cardboard Canadians

[active_apathy]

For those who're keeping score:

I'm angry, I'm very angry that this stunt happened, it was a very dangerous stunt.

--Police commissioner Andrew Scipione, reported here.

And then, from we the audience, contributing our $0.08 a day to the ABC:

Nothing comes from playing the "that Chaser stunt isn't funny" card except further mockery.

--deepfishy, here

...with this fact of life being handily confirmed, thus:

Three staff and a film crew from ABC TV's program The Chaser's War on Everything have been questioned by police after being involved in second stunt in central Sydney this afternoon.

The three were released by police after being briefly questioned for carrying around black cardboard boxes dressed up as limousines in Sydney.

--ABC news, here

For those keeping score, it's 2-0. For arrests, it's 5/7 - and I suspect Andrew might yet have some way of getting himself arrested. If they can somehow manage to get Charles Firth arrested for APEC (and so complete the set), they can have fifty thousand or so bonus points.

About the biggest point highlighted is this: arrange a fake motorcade, and you can breeze through security, but the moment you try using Play School technologies, security's all over you. Should Rhys Muldoon and Georgie Parker suddenly find themselves thoroughly disenchanted with the current administration, we can rest assured that $350 million of security will see them stopped, detained, and questioned.

...

"There's been specific intelligence forwarded to police that suggests that there may be a bear in there, and, possibly, a chair as well. These are serious allegations. Do you have anything to say about them, Mr Ted? Or should we call you... Big."

(...though, on the Neocon Scale Of World-Destroying Evils, they're probably vastly more terrified of that episode with the kid going to the amusement park with her two mums.)


Wow, tangent. Um... cardboard! Cardboard is evil, apparently. And that's about all I have on the Low-Emission Faux-Canadian Cardboard Motorcade of Doom. I, for one, expect there'll likely be more tomorrow.

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[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Think I could get arrested for staging this...?

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Gordon Brown: Hello.
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EveryBush: Amen!
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Rule One! (EveryBush) No Idaho Senators!
Rule Two, no member of the faculty is to violate domestic human rights in any way at all -- if there's anybody watching.
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Right, that concludes the readin' of the rules, Bush.

Bush: This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.
EveryBush: Amen!

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

Rule One! (EveryBush) No Idaho Senators!

AHAHAHAHHAHAHA ILU. <3 . XD

Please please please can I metaquote this? XDXD

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Fine with me. Just lj-cut it. Those mods have more rules than the Philosophy Depahtment.

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

Okey doke :)