Biting the Hand That Feeds: Occupy Protestors Close Apple Store on Black Friday

Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

The video above shows Occupy Oakland protestors accosting a customer trying to enter the Apple Store in San Francisco on Black Friday.

So much for the movement being a whole new paradigm — a whole new paradigm in thuggery, perhaps.

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9 Responses to Biting the Hand That Feeds: Occupy Protestors Close Apple Store on Black Friday

Vern R. Kaine says:

Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 16:24

The ironic thing is that the guy leaving the store empty-handed is in effect less guilty of the human rights violations that the protesters are, since they were the ones who actually bought iPhones and iPads.

Does this mean all the Occupy protestors are going to stop using handheld devices now and give them all back to Apple?

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- Sean Patrick Hazlett says:
  
  Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 16:26
  
  I doubt it.
  
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  - Vern R. Kaine says:
    
    Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 19:52
    
    (Down-pointed twinkly-fingers) I disapprove of their actions at the Apple store.
    (Triangle created with thumbs and forefingers) Point of Order – I also call them “hypocrites”.
    
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    - Sean Patrick Hazlett says:
      
      Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 19:54
      
      I think you’ve been watching too much Colbert…;-)
      
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    - Vern R. Kaine says:
      
      Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 22:21
      
      I wish it was just a comedy routine. Watch their other videos – it’s totally how they communicate. The one’s Colbert added in there were much cooler. 😉
      
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Chris Van Trump says:

Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 20:10

I honestly don’t know how I’d react if a bunch of kids (age notwithstanding, the one commenter was correct in his assertion that they were acting like children) tried to physically bar me from somewhere I wanted to go.

I imagine I’d lose patience with it pretty quickly though.

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- Sean Patrick Hazlett says:
  
  Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 20:17
  
  I would probably get arrested. I don’t have patience for that crap either. I think somebody pulled that crap on me in high school gym class when we were playing baseball or something. On the next at bat, I was on third base, the batter hit a single, and I ran through the guy who pushed me around. On the way to home plate, I knocked him on his ass. He didn’t mess with me ever again.
  
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william says:

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 01:55

well said. I hate how our country spends so much energy wasting resources on black friday….no wonder we are so far in debt.

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- Sean Patrick Hazlett says:
  
  Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 04:16
  
  Thanks, William.
  
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