Parking Ticket Burn!

Ticketed while attending yesterday’s 420 in Concord, activist Neal Connor decides to ignite the government’s extortion demand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TnnqxVQsF4

Concord Monitor Claims 50 at Concord 420, AP Claims 100

I’d claim over 200 came and went throughout the hour. Here’s the link to the AP story claiming 100 attendees, which we definitely surpassed. And here’s the story from the Concord Monitor’s Annmarie Timmins.

About 50 people – one carrying an 11-day-old baby – gathered outside the State House yesterday, some smoking marijuana, to advocate the drug’s legalization. It was a typical “420” event, except no one left in handcuffs.

And that meant no arrest footage for YouTube with headlines like one out of a recent Nashua rally: “Police Attack Freedom Celebration.”

That was intentional.

On Monday, Concord police Chief Robert Barry said his department would treat the rally as “business as usual.” If the station received a complaint about noise or drug use while the rally participants were on city property, officers would respond, he said. (more…)