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todd ellis · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 4:28 pm Post subject: Recording in ferguson today

... well NEAR ferguson, so i took a drive up to look around. it was pretty quiet at 10:30am --- but i took these two VERY different pictures just a block or so apart. i thought about it all the way home.

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melissa eX · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:52 pm Post subject:

Last night I was driving down Broadway (NYC) and traffic came to a halt.
Then my car - on both sides - was surrounded by tons of people marching up Broadway (heading to Union Sq. I guess where I'd just passed probably a few hundred people in the park.) The crowd around my car was marching with their hands in the air chanting "hands up don't shoot." I rolled down my window, rested my arm on the widow sill and held up my hand - and proceeded to get high-fived for the next 15 minutes or so as people streamed past. Not a violent person in the bunch.

It was about 9:30ish I think - I had no idea all this http://gothamist.com/2014/11/26/ferguson_mike_brown_nyc.php#photo-123 was going on. I had just gotten out of a meeting where I'd been since 6. But there was such a feeling of solidarity and peace in the crowd I came upon, that you couldn't help becoming part of it.

According to the news 10 people were arrested for disorderly conduct - out of thousands who marched in different parts of the city shutting down highways and bridges and causing massive traffic jams. I think that speaks well of everyone - protestors, police and drivers. And I thought about THAT difference - between big city and small.

Lee Gordon · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 12:55 am Post subject:

I am still trying to wrap my head around the image of Melissa, patiently sitting behind the wheel of her car on a Manhattan street, at a complete standstill for fifteen minutes, high-fiving the people responsible for her inability to move. Gasp

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todd ellis · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:30 am Post subject:

i couldn't imagine ME not running over anyone in a guy fawkes mask.
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melissa eX · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:13 pm Post subject:

HA!

The words "patiently" and "behind the wheel of a car" do not under any circumstances belong in the same sentence. But it was a very cool moment.

Any successful NYC driver will tell you the city's road rules can be distilled down to two specific things.

1. The philosophy of "You snooze, you lose" rules.
2. Split second reflexes.

Those two things go together.

And Todd, I would NEVER run anyone over. EVER. They may scatter tho' Wink