Not Sure I'm Down With This Whole Occupy Thing

My regular viewing of back to back episodes of "Friends" was rudely interrupted last night by the local news. Apparently, the LAPD was set to invade the Occupy LA encampment and start arresting people and spraying them with poison.

And there's nothing the local news loves more than the possibility of a live voluntary manslaughter.

I ended up watching the coverage for over an hour, mostly because nothing was happening. I love when the poor reporter has to just keep rambling when nothing is happening.

They always try to over hype every little event. This is mostly seen during high and/or slow speed chases. That's 4 hours of driving and 2 seconds of action. But for those 4 hours they'll be like "his hands are not at the 10 and 2 positions!". "He is really tailgating right now, you really should be 10 feet for every increment of 10mph you are going!"

So this live reporter was walking among the protesters trying to make it seem exciting even though the cops were nowhere in sight. At one point, there was yelling and running and a mob formed, and it was because a CNN truck was parking and there was a homeless guy sleeping in the spot.

That's what I'm missing Friends for! And it was gonne be "The One Where Courtney Cox Sucks at Acting Like She's Crying!"

But it was pretty interesting because all the guy was left to do was walk among them and ask questions. He would just randomly stick a microphone in people's faces and ask "why are you here?"

Not a single one could form a coherent sentence in reply. Not one. And I watched and I waited, and it did not happen.

I thought it was fairly revealing since it wasn't some edited together package to make people look bad. This was completely spontaneous and random, and not cut together with an agenda. And I have to say, the reporter wasn't even going up to the people who looked like cousins of the Unabomber.

I don't want to go all Newt on these people but it's not shocking they don't do well in job interviews. Clearly, a lot of these folks were out there just cause they didn't have much else to do.

I don't doubt there are well intentioned people doing well intentioned things, but unfortunately when you get a big group together in a camping environment, things are gonna start getting tea party level stupid.

Perhaps it's time to move things from the "living on the streets" phase to the "let the smart people" talk phase.

I admire anyone who is willing to go out and express their first amendment rights. Unfortunately, I have an aversion to living outdoors, not bathing and other people. But I'm happy someone is out there doing it.

And they've done well in terms of changing the conversation, etc., but man, it might be time to go home.