The 10 craziest things I saw at yesterday's protests

Lapdancers = a##holes
Poop thrower = a##hole
Dad bringing his kid to it = a##hole
Turf stealer(s) = a##hole(s)
Photo blog lady = a##hole
Finger throwing poser guy = a##hole

jimmy = smug, self righteous a##hole

Obama = a##hole
Harper = a##hole
Police = overall a##holes
jimmy = appears to be an a##hole...

Maybe we're all assholes.

It was not feces, it was sand bags that are used on road signs thrown through the glass.

Maybe that wasn't, but 2 photographers I know were hit with bags of shit, one of them in the face, yesterday near Queen's Park. No, we did not ask what species of feces it was.

Are you so naive to think that it was the real protesters that did the damage? The 10,000 that were out protesting were members of labour unions and were peaceful, while 100 people split off and did almost all of the damage. The people who smashed windows weren't protesters, they were people who said beforehand were going to smash things.

I didn't protest, but I watch and listen closely to multiple sources. Media places like CP24 referred to the Black Bloc as protesters (as if all the protesters were doing it), but every once in a while they'd mention that the labour protest was peacefully back at Queen's Park. Also, the labour protest had worked with police in the weeks leading up to their protest so they knew exactly where they were going and had several hundred of their own marshalls there.

Just remember that protests aren't bad, and 99.99% of protests should remain peaceful to be effective. Women got suffrage because of protests, the blacks got equal rights, the Indians got their country from the British, we have 40 hour work weeks, etc. - all from protests.

@Jimmy, taking a picture of a police officer makes them an "aa##hole"? Please.

Calls 'em like I sees 'em.
I salute your right to do the same.

CTV reports that non-sewer workers emerged from sewer grates. Sewer grates not being welded shut. See http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100627/g20-protests-sewer-escape-100627/20100627/?hub=TorontoNewHome for the report.

Dancing in front the cops, showing a finger with their backs or pointing a camera in someone's face? All disrespectful and dehumanizing to any person. Looks like some of these people are just testing their limits or seeking a thrill. And then they whine and cry even more when they get pepper sprayed or a plastic bullet in their ass. Seems just as senseless and stupid as a 1.1 billion dollar meeting in a cottage up north.

The only crazy thing I see here is that some one is using a film SLR camera in the first pic.

Weee let's ride our bikes in a circle downtown for no F*CKING REASON WHATSOEVER and clog everything up and wreck the neighbourhood businesses' chances to make 39 cents of sales this weekend.

Yeah, RECLAIM THE STREETS

YEAH

YEAH

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jimmy is right

Interesting thing about the lapdancers - did you know that if you touch any part of an officer of the law or their equipment that it is considered assault on a police officer? The police showed remarkable restraint.

Can we please stop using the term "protester" to mean all those non-police present? We really need a term to differentiate between those there to speak up for a cause and those there just to cause trouble and vandalize. May I suggest the term "gutless maggots?"

no wonder most of Canada hates toronto, you guys are nothing but cry baby a$$holes. Gee there was riot in your city windows for broken and few cars got burned, big fing deal. Most of the world did not even give toronto any news coverage on this. Many have been caught or will be caught in the near future and will have their day in court. In a week down town will be back to normal and you people can get back to bitching about the TTC and mayor candidates.

Huh? Does this sentence even make sense? LOL! What is a "fing" anyway?

"Gee there was riot in your city windows for broken and few cars got burned, big fing deal."

Thanks to the trill seekers, we will probably never find out...how convenient, makes you wonder who those individuals really are, I mean who do they work for?

A war zone? lol. When loads of deaths start happening, buildings on fire, the entire city (beyond the downtown core.. even the 905!) burning in flames.. Then I might buy it.

God we look like such babies. "Boo hoo! They won't let me walk down Queen St for one weekend! It's a war zone!"

You know... If people really wanted to protest, they would have stayed home. Imagine totally empty streets, with a billion dollar security force going to waste. That would've been beautiful.

Protesters (peaceful and not) really aren't that bright.

It was feces for sure, I was there and sand don't smell like that did.

I got some footage of the "You're Sexy, You're Cute, Take off that riot suit" video!

http://bit.ly/aBtCQs

One of the positive notes of the protest at Toronto G20: a crowd of fun spirited kids at the front-line, singing to the police "You're sexy, you're cute, take off that riot suit!"

Then some of them noticed a certain officer was smiling, so they started yelling (comically) "Oh, # 789, we see you smirking!" and his cheeks got all rosy and the crowd began to laugh / have a good time.

I could so tell his cop buddies were just dying on the inside, wanting to poke fun at him.

1 billion dollars for what? Shame on the mindless hooligans, the mindless police actions, and the mindless political leaders wasting our hard earned tax dollars.....This is a very very sad day.

Remember your vote people.

Amazing how so many are so willing to piss away what makes our city great. The was nothing more than mob rule and an excuse to blow some things up and "give it to man". Here's a newsflash, no one got your message and "the man" is just a bunch of people with brothers, sisters, children, parents who foolishly decided to get into police work thinking they might be able to do some good, not babysit a bunch of losers wearing black. There are places in this world with real problems, it's disgusting you found the need to selfishly create unnecessary strife. Shame on you.

First off these vlogs are not about us not being able to walk down Queen St. to go shopping or shoot shennanigans around. These comments are not a boo-hoo to Toronto's happenings.

Torontonians aren't trying to compete with the tears of Haita or the blood shed in 9/11. These are our homes story. This is how we feel.

This is about our own distress. Our glasses broken, our people injured...our neighbours terrified.

Technically, touching anyone without their consent is assault.

Right on Todd, the g20 happenings reflect on us as Canadians and not just as Toronotonians especially to the world outisde of Canada

That first photo is a laugh! I know it was a scene during the G20 protest, as well as a part of it, but it looks to me that those men were more like ushering in the start of Gay Pride.

im definitely an ass#$*%
and you are too

I like the generalizations too...all police are ass#$$%s?
it would stand to reason, with that ass&*($ logic that we could surmise that ALL protestors are ass#$%^s too?

I dont know Obama, I dont know Harper, I may not agree with their policies (more Harper than Obama) but while I may be an ass&*(% I'm not enough of one to rip people I dont know, have never met and will most likely never meet

Childish posts...all of these

Yep. The second one of those protesters laid a finger on me, gyrating or not, they'd have a six-inch wound in the back of their head via my baton.

if anything, these protesters just justified the money spent. imagine if no one did anything..how *more* stupid would the government have looked?

Opinions are like assholes, we all have one.

JIMMMMMYYYY

Jimmy is 10 percent right. What a bunch of arrogant do***e bags. They ruined it for peaceful protestors, trashed places people work, and hurt good everyday people. Let them move to Somalia or the Pakistani border regions if they want to live in a failed state. I am sure they would fit in well there.

Oops, I meant Queen's Park, not Dundas Square. But it was a family-friendly event.

I meant Queen's Park not Dundas Square.

Ok why don't the G20 just meet in the arctic every year, no protesters, no bill, it's not like G20 listens to anything the protesters are saying anyways, they run the world.

or conversely why don't they just stay an extra day and have a forum where each group can voice their deal to them directly, either face to face or video conference, sign up, get a timeslot, would solve a lot of stupid whining from everyone, cops, protesters, media, blackbloc, everyone on social media, everyone. Get your say, then go home, the end.

But wouldn't that be boring!! ama iright or amaright?