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"Baton Bob" (wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_Bob) is a street performer in Atlanta, Georgia. In June 2013, Atlanta police arrested Baton Bob during the middle of a street performance, after a verbal altercation Bob had with mall security guards.
Baton Bob has now filed a
federal lawsuit accusing Atlanta police of violating his constitutional rights, assault, discrimination, privacy violations and identify theft.
What makes this SoylentNews-worthy is that Atlanta Police forced Baton Bob to post a pro-police statement on his Facebook page before officers would allow Bob to be released on bond. According to the lawsuit:
At approximately 3:40 p.m., while Plaintiff sat handcuffed and without an attorney, he was told to dictate a public statement to Officer Davis, who then typed and posted the message to the Baton Bob Facebook account. The message read:
First of all, the atl police officer that responded to the incident thru security has been very respectful and gracious to me even in handcuffs. So, the situation escalated from a complaint from a security officer in the area and for some reason she rolled up on me like she didn't know who I was and like I had not been there before. For them to call police to come to intervene was not necessary. So, out of it, because of my fury, the Atlanta police officer did not understand the elements of the situation, so he was trying to do his job, respectfully and arrested my ass!!!!!!!!! I'll be out tomorrow so look out for my show at 14th and Peachtree. So now I'm waiting to be transported so I can sign my own bond and get the hell out of here. I want to verify, that the Atlanta police was respectful to me considering the circumstances. See you when I see you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As promised, Plaintiff was then given a signature bond and released from jail.
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Tuesday July 01 2014, @11:53AM
"Maybe they all move to Manhattan and blow the bridges?"
Well, given the vibrant farming and ranching community Manhattan is famous for, the problem would solve itself in a couple months. Even some sort of "Berlin Airlift" scenario just doesn't seem logistically possible even with unlimited supplies unless the census is something ridiculous low like 100 people.
I'm a little fuzzy if Manhattan has a local fresh water supply and electricity... I think they do, although not much? If not, the problem would solve itself much quicker, like one week.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday July 01 2014, @02:33PM
They managed to keep it going for 10.5 months, until the Soviets lifted the blockade. According to Wikipedia, it sounds like they were airlifting enough in day-to-day to keep the city supplied indefinitely.
Granted, it was Cold War dickwaving so they didn't really care about the costs.
#ohwaityouwerejustkiddingright
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday July 01 2014, @03:11PM
I'm assuming Manhattan has no airport, seeing as the entire island is smaller than just DFW airport, or rephrased you could drop the entire island within the boundaries of the DFW airport.
I'm not sure how/why Berlin has/had a regular airport in its boundaries. I was under the impression they landed regular cargo aircraft in Berlin, not just airdrops. Its a bit before my time.
So I was on the assumption you'd have to downgrade from fixed wing cargo aircraft in the Berlin example to mere helicopters in Manhattan.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by isostatic on Tuesday July 01 2014, @03:55PM
Sure, Manhattan Regional Airport. Not very handy for fifth avenue though [google.com]
It does have heliports though, and there is a proposal for an airport [manhattanairport.org], but more importantly it has docks
Berlin is a big place, about 20 times bigger than Manhattan. Yes Templehof (and later Tegal) were both in West Berlin, and scheduled passenger services ran for decades.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Tuesday July 01 2014, @10:17PM
JFYI, It's Tegel, but close enough. (And lots of people hope it will stay.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 02 2014, @09:35AM
I just call it TXL, and certainly do hope it stays. 30 seconds from leaving the plane to getting in a taxi, 15 minutes to the office.
Sadly on the way back to LHR it can take 15 minutes just to get to immigration - and that's not even when it melts down.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mechanicjay on Tuesday July 01 2014, @05:13PM
A lot of NYC's water comes from big reservoirs in Southern NY state -- it wouldn't be hard to cut them off.
Electric comes from big regional plants around, though Manhattan does have a bunch of local NatGas co-gen plants scattered through-out the city.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.