Teenage Riot

[eestlinc]

rise up in the streets. smash cars and set sofas on fire. tear gas police.

have you ever been in a riot? taken part? been caught in one? anything you want to riot over?

I was in Cincinnati when the race riots broke out and it was not cool. I didn't actually get caught in any violence but we had 6 pm curfews, super high tension among everyone. But something needed to be done when the police would go around beating shoplifters to death and all.

Sometimes a riot is the only way to be heard. Supervote for the disenfranchised minority.

if there's been a way to build it there'll be a way to destroy it. things are not all that out of control.

[Del Murder]

Not once in my four year tenure in Los Angeles did a riot break out. Just my luck.

[Rainecloud]

The closest I've ever been to a riot is watching a news report about a riot. I don't go out to pubs and clubs at night, so I avoid the unruly people who tend to start these things. True, I'm not completely immune from being involved in a riot just because I don't go to pubs, but it drastically lowers my chances of ending up in the middle of one.

They look pretty scary, what with all the flaming bottles and the like. *shudder*

[Peegee]

I tend to think I won't engage / participate in a riot, but seeing as that has never happened to me, how am I to know? My scruples are pretty shoddy at best, so it's not too impossible for me to 'justify' theft or arson or vandalism or what-not.

Which is a good thing riots don't typically break out in Canada.

[prince leon]

Nothing has never occured where I live that required or instigated a riot.

[RSL]

Riots don't happen here.

[Mr. Graves]

A riot does sound fun...

...No. Sadly, I've never participated in one.

[Yamaneko]

Not once in my four year tenure in Los Angeles did a riot break out. Just my luck.

Lakers riot?

I was around during the '92 LA riots. It was in another part of the city than the part I live in, though.

[The Captain]

I took part in a peace rally in NYC last year around this time, that turned into a peace riot, which was not a fun sight. Luckily, I was away from the main group that started it, but one of my teachers, who also happened to be there, was arrested and held in jail for 24 hours.

Take care all.

[Del Murder]

Lakers riot?

I was home for the summer.

[Lindy]

No, I tried to go see Atari Teenage Riot once though.

[Calliope]

I've been thinking of starting one lately.

[Miriel]

I lived in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles during the 1992 riot, but I was only 6 when the riot broke out so I don't remember much. Only that my parents were extremely anxious during that time and I wasn't allowed to go outside for 3 days.

[Peegee]

Rioting is a total disruption of peace at best, which is already a criminal activity. Stereotypically it also includes thievery, arson, some sort of breaking-and-entering, err..assault, and all sorts of naughty things. How do you justify doing criminal activity? I don't believe you can or should.

Say no to riot. Stay home and surf the net.

[zendust1]

I have rioted before, but I agree with Moo Moo, it's best not to riot, but there are times when you NEED to, it's the only alternative...

...Venezuela: The situation here is so tense that everyday could be a riot. The "so called" president of this nation has terrible ties with cuban "president" Fidel Castro and is trying to turn this beautiful nation into a second Cuba. We have done everything we can (and are still doing so) to democraticaly vote out this would-be-dictator, but everything we do is tampered with by the government (because every institution is controlled by someone of the same political party) and there is little hope. We have rioted before, and it didn't work; why? because the military is controlled also and they came at us shooting with heavy weaponry when we could only throw rocks at them.

Our last resource is becoming a MASS RIOT. Hope it doesn't come down to that, please help us in any way, if you can (Venezuela, South America).