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Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear
Sorry, but your wrong.
I happen to have been in the exact same circumstance's.
I was teargassed and billyclubbed HOLDING MY DAUGHTERS HAND. Minutes after leaving a private function held at a hotel for computer engineers.
Before we left the hotel the hotel manager had told us to exit the building from the back because some people were demonstrating in front and it might be easier to leave from the back of the hotel.
( thats the only warning i got )
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somehow you equate 1000's of rioting anarchists trying to destroy a city and exiting your computer nerd convention as being the "exact same circumstances"?
hmmm.... lets break this down.
the hotel MANAGER (not bell captain, not parking valet, not desk clerk, not a maid) by your own admission, deemed the situation to be serious enough to warn you and suggest and alternate exit for your safety and for that of your daughter.
you pondered the notion for two seconds before realizing that approximately 18 to 20 extra footsteps would be involved and you were afraid of collapsing into the lifeless heap of out of shape computer nerds that tried to make the journey and failed.
then, fearing your daughter might grow up without a father should you attempt a gasping for air, blood pressure raising, heart attack inducing stroll across the lobby floor, you then decided that waiting was not an option. Nor was checking the situation to see if it was safe. not for you. you're clever. you then chose the the only logical decision that a techies mind running for years on HoHo's, Jolt Cola and pizza could make... to walk out the front door into a group of protestors.
good idea using your daughter as a human shield. too bad they snuck a few shots past her.
some questions come to mind...
are you deaf and blind?
were the cops and the demonstrators all wearing ninja costumes and clinging silently to the walls waiting to ambush the first unsuspecting idiot and his child that came along?
Was the hotel manager part of the conspiracy as well?
... or did you maybe you made a terrible mistake that you accept no responsibility for?