Minneapolis’ city attorney’s office has agreed to pay a $165,000 settlement to seven people who dressed up as zombies to protest consumerism in 2006. Police had arrested the protesters for what they thought appeared to be a “weapon of mass destruction,” but hilariously was actually an iPod and some equipment to amplify this terrorist mp3 player. They were never charged and were later released to continue annoying the terrorism-hating Minnesota public with their disdain for the sale of fishing lures.
So how do anti-consumerists spend $165,000? We all need to eat healthy, and free-range organic human brains aren’t cheap.
FIRST WE GIVE MUSLINS THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND NOW WE ARE GIVING UNDEAD TERRORISTS THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH? [Star Tribune]
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Eh, this is a push. I bet there was some really shitty music on that iPod.
Zombies were lucky; defense plan #2 was to unleash Michelle Bacman and her supporters who for some reason are immune to Zombie attacks.
If it’s really winter there how can you differentiate between a zombie and a normal [sic] resident?
[re=644708]2goats[/re]: the zombie virus infects the brain
If they’re like rabid anti-consumerists I’ve known, they probably were planning on blasting Rage Against the Machine or something similar; playing something that bad loudly in public meats my definition of terrorism.
Boooo! Down with purchasing!
Anti consumerism?, so they made that iPod from items they had gathered in the forest?
Please, I hope they come to the reflecting pool this Saturday.
“…seven people who dressed up as zombies to protest consumerism in 2006.”
Uh, you need a reason to dress up as a zombie, now?
Dude’s eyes are REALLY close together. Is a zombie the same thing as a cyclops?
Beat em or burn em, they go up pretty quick.
Minnesota is close to Canadia. They are dumb; do you think we can slip the deed to the state under their front door tonight and give the state to them?
Minneapolis, Ontario, has a nice, Frenchie ring to it. Minneapolis, who just agreed to pay $160,000 to seven people who were dressed as Zombies and jailed for 2 days in 2006 because they had stereos in backpacks that had wires coming out of the backpacks that MIGHT HAVE BEEN BOOBS, I mean, BOMBS. Sorry, the only Boobs were Michelle’s and the police, and the whole state that din’t fire their zombie hating buttockszs.
Probably pregnant alien Zombies here to drop their terrorist zombie babies. Don’t know why they hated them; they’d have voted Repubican, anyway, as Zombies usually do.
BRAINZ!!!!
Well they better not even think about building a cemetery next to 9/11.
Isn’t an iPod a weapon of mass destruction? Oh yea, you need an amplifier to make it that. Whoa! They had an amplifier! RETURN THE $165,00, YOU CHEATS.
Heh, when we did the zombie thing one of us got too drunk and passed out in the car. A passerby saw it and called 911. Whem the EMT’s showed up, they woke his drunk ass up and started questioning him. They would up complimenting him on the fake blood we made, because it even fooled them.
So your lesson for today is to throw corn starch in your fake blood, people.
Shouldn’t the zombies be driving down to Iowa if they want to get married?
But the real question is what happen to the lizard people? Reports say they were at the Mall Of America shopping.
They arrest these kids, yet that monster Garrison Keillor is allowed to roam free. Sheesh.
I am from Minneapolis. They generally have a pretty good police department, but there are always clinkers.
The Minnesota republicans are the dumbest republicans on Earth. Not just in the US, but on Earth.
I would be willing to bet that the officers, especially that Sargent, are repugs.
[re=644880]CessnaDriver[/re]: Minnesota Statutes has a big section on dead bodies, and I am sure there was probable cause to believe that zombies violate some of it.
[re=644706]ArkansasFred[/re]: I’m guessing, the Zombies.
As a Minneapolis taxpayer I have to shell out for lawsuit after lawsuit against our “beat first and ask questions later” fine law enforcement service. Just ask about a native American they once took for a joy ride in a trunk. Or the time they lied about a protester assaulting an officer even though it was all caught on video.
Some in uniform have less brains than pretend zombies.
[re=644755]jus_wonderin[/re]: $165K, how much is that in brains?
Minnesota is good place to live where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking and all the children want to be zombies.
Anti consumerists that own ipods should be arrested for irony. That’s illegal post 9/11 right?
Jack White is looking really bad these days.
ok, to clear things up. first, there was never a ”protest”. it was misquoted in the press a few years ago that the zombies were protesting ” buy nothing day”. when in reality it was just a little street theater.
how will the 165 be spent? mostly on lawyers fees, then i’m going to disneyworld.
”Isn’t an iPod a weapon of mass destruction? Oh yea, you need an amplifier to make it that. Whoa! They had an amplifier” we made the amplifier out of an old car stereo by the way.
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