I'm not sure if I really care about this. I mean, it was once a week. Why couldn't the complainers just go watch the sunset another night?

/or are residents from local houses complaining? If so, then I sympathize with them, and the drum circle members should be executed by firing squad.

GreenAdder: "If you're holding a drum you're getting a $250 ticket"

Civil disobedience. Show up with your drums, sit around in a circle, and don't play them.

Yeah, that'll show 'em. I bet they won't file another noise complaint when you aren't making any noise.

This is why, liberal as I am, I farking hate hippies. Idealism is not a valid political strategy.

Now if we could only outlaw Patchouli....

Hollywood Cole: Now if we could only outlaw Patchouli....

I'll personally perform the executions.

But I need it for therapy

I watched the police hand out citations to a couple of hippies with drums in Rittenhouse Square (Philly) last summer. 2 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon, there were at least 15 people hanging out enjoying their music. Sure they smelled a little, sure they might not be productive cubicle dwellers, but dammit they were entertaining.

Jerkoff cops. Go to North Philly and bust asses.

Hollywood Cole: Now if we could only outlaw Patchouli...

And somehow enforce a weekly shower ordinance.

They should just record themselves and play it nice and loud, but without drums

MacEnvy: This is why, liberal as I am, I farking hate hippies. Idealism is not a valid political strategy.

Say what you want about the tenets of Idealism, at least it's an ethos.

Sounds like they need to treat it like a concert or festival, and not an informal get together.

/if other places do it and have no problems...
//...does this mean their drumming sucks?

Silly puppies... Drum Circles tend to attract these:

Ten posts before an idiot, Fark record!

sit in a circle and play a recording of drumming?

sit in a circle and play slide trombones?

sit in a square and play digeridoos?

get a dozen bag pipe players at 5 in the morning?

MilitaryTigger: Silly puppies... Drum Circles tend to attract these:

No, they're MUCH hairier than that.

MilitaryTigger: Drum Circles tend to attract these:

No they don't. They attract fat ugly girls who think they're one of those.

Meauran: Hollywood Cole: Now if we could only outlaw Patchouli...

And somehow enforce a weekly shower ordinance.

One solves the other. If they'd just farking SHOWER, they wouldn't need the patchouli.

Brother, you and I are facing the same enemy with a different name.

PigInAPen: They should just record themselves and play it nice and loud, but without drums

Do they ticket these douchebags too? Probably not. Leave the drummers alone.

PigInAPen: They should just record themselves and play it nice and loud, but without drums

How would this be a way around the noise ordinance?

GreenAdder: "If you're holding a drum you're getting a $250 ticket"

That seems a bit excessive, a bucket of soapy water will usually make 'em scatter. Patchouli on the other hand is a form of chemical warfare. I would support waterboarding for anyone caught in posession of it.

paygun: MilitaryTigger: Drum Circles tend to attract these:

No they don't. They attract fat ugly girls who think they're one of those.

Kinda like Fark?

/oh no he di'int.

NannerPuss: Cue all the hippy haters and people saying that Global Warming is a figment of Al Gore's imagination blah blah whargarbl etc....

You sound unclean.

Fine with this. I'd also support tasing, pepper spray or hobbling as appropriate punishment.

5Nickels: Ten posts before an idiot, Fark record!

I only counted 9.

MilitaryTigger: Silly puppies... Drum Circles tend to attract these:

nnnnnnnngggggh....

airsupport: Kinda like Fark?

No, *exactly* like fark.

Sounds like most of the people in this thread haven't been doing their trust falls this week.

MacEnvy: GreenAdder: "If you're holding a drum you're getting a $250 ticket"

Civil disobedience. Show up with your drums, sit around in a circle, and don't play them.

Yeah, that'll show 'em. I bet they won't file another noise complaint when you aren't making any noise.

This is why, liberal as I am, I farking hate hippies. Idealism is not a valid political strategy.

I would argue that idealism is as least a valid political strategy as making up bullshiat and lies and spreading them as if they were truth to try to scare people into thinking your way. And the GOP has been doing that for a long time now...

First 9/11, now this!

MilitaryTigger: Silly puppies... Drum Circles tend to attract these:

More like:

*shakes fist at nannerpuss*

Drum Circles: A perfect way to ruin a beautiful summer day

Duhhhh! Just make them listen to it on their headphones!

It's a public park, shouldn't they be allowed to do that so long as it is a reasonable hour? Drum circles aren't as loud as say, a rock concert. The people living near the park should have had a reasonable expectation of noise before moving in, are we going to stop children from playing loudly as well?

/don't care for hippies, or drum circles.

Count me among those calling for an end to patchouli. By any means necessary.

Can we do this for those damn kids and their buckets here in Chicago as well?

39 music-hating freedom-hating idiot posts and not a single reference to Stephenson's Diamond Age yet?

Best news I've heard all day.

5Nickels 2009-08-31 08:34:41 PM
Ten posts before an idiot, Fark record!

I gave you the benefit of the doubt and went and RTFA. Still don't see why they're getting busted. 50 drummers might seem like a lot, but I don't see how it's out of hand.

Then again, it's Canada. I have no idea if they are guaranteed the rights to assemble. Out of spite, I'm not going to google it.

jspenguin: Approves:

Done in 2.

/ Came for this South Park ref.