[Peace-discuss] today

[Jim Buell]

It was an alls-well-that-ends-well situation. A P4P participant (someone 
told me he's a prof in Vet Med) who evidently hadn't been to the event 
before had parked his van in the Tires Plus lot because he hadn't heard 
that the jerks there tow. The manager came out, started shouting "who owns 
this van?" and people nearby tried to spread the word, but nobody knew 
right off. Someone told me he then threatened to call a tow truck (as if 
those were available in conditions like yesterday's :)), then he (or 
somebody from the shop) parked a small station wagon so its back end was 
just behind the van, blocking it in. The van driver showed up and didn't 
know what to do. I think a passenger from his van went in and tried to talk 
with the manager, but eventually he came out - no idea what was said, but 
the station wagon didn't get moved. Then, brilliance! One of our number 
realized that since the van was sitting on ice, a dozen hardy souls could 
simply push its rear end sideways to get it out from behind the station 
wagon. A little heave-ho, and the deed was done. I doubt the Tires Plus guy 
ever figured out how it got done. I do indeed have film of a good bit of 
this little episode (and can pull stills from that) - figured it would be 
good to document in case the going got rough for any reason, though happily 
it didn't.

All in all, a karmic moment. As, by the way, was the fact that Channel 15 
had a long shot on its 10 pm news last night showing several of P4P'ers 
helping push a small white pickup truck that was spinning its wheels going 
southbound toward the overpass on Prospect. Now viewers know we're a 
regular bunch a' boy scouts :).

peace,
Jim

At 11:15 PM 2/15/2003 -0600, John Fettig wrote:
>* Jim Buell <jbuell at prairienet.org>:
> > P4P was fantastic - something like 160-170 people were there according
> > to Ricky's count, despite near-blizzard conditions. So sorry to hear
> > about your getting stuck. All 3 tv stations had video of us on their 6
> > pm news, too - I'm guessing we'll be there at 10 as well. I just
> > noticed that Ben Grosser has a lot of superb pics online - some at
> > www.ucimc.org, the rest at his own website linked from there. I won't
> > bother grabbing stills off my video - his are much nicer!
>
>Speaking of video, I noticed you were filming the on-goings down by
>Tires Plus.  Mind posting an account of what was going on down there?
>It appeared that they had boxed the beige van in with that station
>wagon...
>
>There was an altercation further up the line, I have posted an account
>and one (sorry no action shots) picture on www.ucimc.org.
>
>John