# I'm bored. Let's start another riot! (Looting and pillaging to follow later. . .) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237 "2000-11-22T03:46:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/1 "2000-11-22T03:46:03Z")
So, I’m sitting in this dumbass class today, and I say to myself, “Self, I need somethin’ to do. How 'bout I start a riot?” I need a halfway good reason though. I know we’ve had a bunch of riots in the past and have even raised an army, but hell, I’m bored and don’t want to do any homework right now. . . . Trip Still bored, and out of beer ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/2 "2000-11-22T03:54:31Z")
I tried rallying my cowokers to this plan, but they just didn’t buy in. We don’t have a president-elect. If we were in some third world country and were without a president after an election, there would be some badass riotin’ going on. While discussing this with MommaRiddles, she brought up the fact that Letterman said one of the reasons he’s thankful this year is that \* neither\* of them won. So maybe we should riot in thankfulness. Your call. ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/3 "2000-11-22T04:34:54Z")
You need a reason? Woah! Never thought of having a reason to wreak havoc, at school we just band together for the hell of it. You should try it someday. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/4 "2000-11-22T04:39:22Z")
When I was a wee welf one time the sky turned green. It was my brother’s birthday. I ran around outside flailing my arms and screaming like a banshee. I made my own riots. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/5 "2000-11-22T04:46:31Z")
call me for the looting and pillaging, m’kay? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/6 "2000-11-22T17:45:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fairy Princess Kitty \* > \*\*You need a reason? Woah! Never thought of having a reason to wreak havoc, at school we just band together for the hell of it. You should try it someday. > > Kitty \*\* True . . . True . . . I guess if we supply free beer to the first 10,000 rioters, that should help get this thing off the ground. . . Tripler ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/7 "2000-11-22T17:55:45Z")
Make it free White Russians, and I’ll join up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/8 "2000-11-22T18:12:21Z")
I’m with Falcon. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/9 "2000-11-22T18:16:47Z")
Geez, no one wants to take the initiative here! ::grabs a cinder block, hurls it through a window and helps himself to a stereo:: **THAT’S** how you start a riot. Who’s with me?! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/10 "2000-11-22T18:22:31Z")
This has gone on too long, and someone should do SOMETHING. If not us–Who? If not now–When? \>goes to crafts cabinet and begins making signs that read FREE THE WHITE RUSSIANS I’M WHITE,PRO-RUSSIAN AND I VOTE JUSTICE FOR THE WHITE RUSSIANS Ok Everyone, I’ve found a cause, Let’s play Who’s with me??? (first dibs on the looting and pillaging, just in time for Christmas, COOL) ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/11 "2000-11-22T19:22:07Z")
This riot sucks. Is someone gonna help me flip this car over, or are you all gonna watch until I pull arms out of socket? ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/12 "2000-11-22T19:26:37Z")
::yawn:: this isn’t a riot… where’s the pepper spray? where are the paddy wagons? sheesh… ---
**Author:** ![tak29813](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@tak29813](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tak29813)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/13 "2000-11-22T19:34:21Z")
I was promised a riot, dammit, and I want one. First I’m gonna loot me some new shoes (all the better to run away from the National Guard), then a new hat (all the better for the TV cameras). I am also in the market for some fine furnishings. Now whats this business with the caucasians. I am all for white russians, and for the heavy cream challenged, black russians. So lets riot for a reason, I couldn’t read my ballot! I accidentally voted for sweet potatoes instead of green bean casserole as my favorite side dish. I demand a recount. I WILL NOT LET THIS INJUSTICE STAND!!! ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/14 "2000-11-22T19:40:20Z")
Lame ain’t the word. [The last one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25995) was lame. This is worse than that. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/15 "2000-11-22T19:41:15Z")
I did my part and rioted all last week. Unfortunately, I failed to check my “Up and Coming Events in Cincinnati” calendar beforehand, or I would have known those “Stop Globalization!” nuts were coming to town the same week. Needless to day, they stole all my free publicity (I mean, not ONE damn reporter showed up to my subdivision) and I’m STILL sulking about it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/16 "2000-11-22T19:48:33Z")
_mumbling_ Lessee I know it’s in her somewhere… all right here it is…ok lets’s go Pulls out “RIOT IN A BOX” CONTENTS: . martyr and/or cause . alleged incident . righteous indignation . Pepper spray . Paddy wagons . Popeil’s amazing car flipper-overer . Cinder blocks . free beer for 10,000 . instigators \>throws whole mess out into the street\< Why do I have to think of EVERYTHING? \>proceeds to raise hell generally, grabs first unsuspecting bystander and kisses him passionately \< _thinking_ Wow rioting gets me so HOT … ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/17 "2000-11-24T10:59:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rasa \* > \*\*::yawn:: this isn’t a riot… where’s the pepper spray? where are the paddy wagons? sheesh… \*\* Hell. I’ve seen more pepper spray sitting on my ass in Sproul. Damn it where is the brutality??? Where are the random beatings? Where are the apeearences by Jesse Jackson asking for calm? And speaking of that, where are the moonies? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/18 "2000-11-24T12:38:19Z")
\*Runs in Sucking a lemon C’mon!! CMOOOONN!!! what, no tear gas??? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/19 "2000-11-24T13:31:20Z")
[teary-eyed Jesse Jackson]Now let’s just all calm down and work this out…[/teary-eyed Jesse Jackson] Fuck that. Riot. I’m the only one in my department here today. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237/20 "2000-11-24T18:05:42Z")
White Russians? You only need White Russians? ::picks up a rock and hucks it at the liquor store window:: Woohooo! Follow me! Dibs on the Sam Adams! Tripler Now **this** looks like a good riot in the making. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored-lets-start-another-riot-looting-and-pillaging-to-follow-later/42237.md?page=2)