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-Blast

This is how I'd escape a riot:



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Da Bing

And get yourself identified in the NY Times!
The young lady is a Canadian, Alexandra Thomas and the guy is Scott Jones, an Australian (why am I not surprised? ).

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/identifying-looters-and-lovers-in-vancouvers-riot/?hp

Aussies and Canuks are clearly more civilized than Americans. That, and the Canadian police are clearly more civilized. Do that farther south and the police, who think a good snuggle is dirty, and that it is their business to enforce good Christian morality, would lay a beat down on both of them. And then haul them off for rioting. They would both be registered as terrorists, and sex offenders.

I saw them interviewed this morning. Apparently they got caught up trying to escape and the police used shields to push the rioters back and she fell and started freaking out as police tried to force them back with the shields. After a couple seconds the police moved forward. The guy was trying to calm her down from being so freaked. There is also overhead video of the whole thing.

I hadn't noticed it till just now, but having seen that photo a dozen times, I defaulted to the people in the background being rioters and the couple in a DMZ with the cops being closest to the photog. Now I see that the gap is between the police front and the police support.

"The guy was trying to calm her down from being so freaked. "

Well ... it sure looks like he found a successful way to get their minds off the situation!
HAHAHA !!!!

Pete #2

I have been in a number of "serious" riots. Guns, firebombs, that sort of thing. Of course the best plan is to avoid. However this is not always possible.

I found that a radio helped a lot. I needed information from "outside" about what/where things were happening. At first I thought the radio would draw attention, but nobody seemed to notice.

It was a ham radio (which I almost always carry)that I had tuned to a local news station and a local repeater. I held it upside down with the antenna along my wrist. Risky? Perhaps. But without the information, I would never had a clue about which way to move.

These events were truly terrifying. They seemed to erupt without warning and were very violent. I feared for my life and hope never to be anywhere near something like that again. Now, when things even appear, just a bit, to be getting rowdy, I hit the road. I always avoid crowds and keep a wandering eye for escape routes and "tension". Wimp?? You betcha...

I travel a lot. When I get to a new area, I put several useful frequencies in the radio as soon as possible. Most are available on the internet. Mostly it is a waste of time. Once in awhile it really pays off.

If you are into radios, I suggest you download the NIFOG manual.
www.ncdhhs.gov/dhsr/EMS/pdf/NIFOG.pdf

It provides the frequencies used by the integrated communications system now in use. Much is encrypted, but a lot is not.

Look for a local news station. Much is just created by someone far away and it will do you no good. Community radio stations are useful.

Nomad

I thought it was photo-shopped

One of the biggest down sides to media consolidation is that most major radio and TV outlets are non-local. Most are not even regional. The majority are essentially national with news coming from a central news source office that feeds hundreds of stations. Those are pretty useless for finding out what is going on locally.

Back in the day there were several local radio stations that each had their own news desk, several crews, and a dozen or more stringers, out hunting down local and regional stories. And everyone wanted to get their own angle and insights so you could scan two or three stations and get a pretty good picture of what was going on. Those days are gone and most news outlets just regurgitate the lines from a national news outlet.

If you are careful, have a good antenna and are patient you can sometimes find tiny low-power stations on the quiet end of the AM dial. These are often great sources of information if you can find them.

I have rural friends who listen in on the local low-power station because it tells you pretty much what you need to know about what is going on in a community. It gives road conditions on small two-lane county roads, tells when a bridge is out, and keeps a running, blow-by-blow account of rising water, wildfires and, naturally, details on any riots.