# We closed early today due to the protests **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-closed-early-today-due-to-the-protests/620586 "2012-05-02T00:19:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-closed-early-today-due-to-the-protests/620586/1 "2012-05-02T00:19:24Z")
A bit of violence in Seattle today, and further marches and protests were planned. So the office (along the route from Westlake to Seattle Center) was closed at 2:30 this afternoon. Now I’m home, been to Rite-Aid (Match Light is on sale), fixed a table lamp, cleaned up the cat puke, and reclining on the couch looking out the open French doors to green trees and sunshine. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-closed-early-today-due-to-the-protests/620586/2 "2012-05-02T00:55:25Z")
I’m home early too! I work right next to Westlake Center, and my lead told us we could head out early. Not that there was really anything happening…maybe a hundred or so people in the square, a bunch of cops sitting around in front of the Starbucks… ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-closed-early-today-due-to-the-protests/620586/3 "2012-05-02T01:23:27Z")
What are the protests about? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-closed-early-today-due-to-the-protests/620586/4 "2012-05-02T01:48:21Z")
Observance of May Day. Along with marches and speeches and normal stuff, some people took the opportunity to protest banks and such. A Wells Fargo branch had its windows smashed, and some cars were vandalized. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-closed-early-today-due-to-the-protests/620586/5 "2012-05-02T03:26:13Z")
Man, we had an [incompetent bomb threat](http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland-fbi-makes-national-security-arrests) near me this morning and the FBI came and everything and _I_ didn’t get the day off… ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-closed-early-today-due-to-the-protests/620586/6 "2012-05-02T13:12:47Z")
Those guys are the laughing stock of Cleveland! And they had to recruit their ringleader from Indiana – it’s hard enough to get four anarchists together, and then they need to get outside help. The FBI should have found a bridge that needed to be blown up anyway and let them at it, and then arrested them. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-closed-early-today-due-to-the-protests/620586/7 "2012-05-02T13:16:17Z")
If anything happened in Boston, I am unaware of it. It was a pretty typical day. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-closed-early-today-due-to-the-protests/620586/8 "2012-05-02T16:27:44Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > If anything happened in Boston, I am unaware of it. It was a pretty typical day. Yeah, I can see how anarchy might go unnoticed in Boston.😉 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-closed-early-today-due-to-the-protests/620586/9 "2012-05-02T16:54:31Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Yeah, I can see how anarchy might go unnoticed in Boston.😉 It could very well be that people are protesting by driving like maniacs, but I can’t tell the difference. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-closed-early-today-due-to-the-protests/620586/10 "2012-05-02T17:03:59Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > it’s hard enough to get four anarchists together, Of course. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-closed-early-today-due-to-the-protests/620586/11 "2012-05-02T17:05:53Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > (Match Light is on sale) On May Day in Seattle? That is _awesome_ market research. 😛