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a perfect group of events: Detoured trucks, california traffic, bored young people in DARK BLUE CITY, grocery store selling eggs.
Inept 'People's Convoy' chased out of Bay Area by egg-throwing kids
The dreams of the Peoples Convoy quickly died in the Bay Area after a critical tactical error: turning onto a street with a Safeway and a group of bored kids.
The trucker convoy, which aimed to emulate the disruptive Canadian protests against COVID-19 restrictions, has failed spectacularly at every turn. During a few weeks of driving around Washington, D.C., the convoy was held up by a single bicyclist, and some convoy members said they were having difficulty finding places for bathroom breaks and, as a result, were forced to urinate in their pants.
After an anemic showing in Washington, the convoy made the long drive back across the country, landing in the Bay Area this week. Since the convoy began, practically all major COVID restrictions have been lifted in the United States, so it appears its switched its messaging to support other conservative causes.
On Friday afternoon, the small convoy of semitrucks, pickup trucks, minivans and other cars drove to Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks East Bay home to protest her support of an abortion rights bill. As they honked and used bullhorns in the quiet residential neighborhood, neighbors gathered to heckle them right back, yelling at the truckers to get off their street.
Livestreams posted by convoy participants show police arriving to protect Wicks home, which eventually prompted the group to move on. It was here the convoy members made their mistake, driving onto busy, one-lane College Avenue on the Berkeley-Oakland border. There, slowed down by the usual Friday afternoon traffic, they were sitting ducks outside the Safeway. A large group of kids, armed with eggs purchased at the grocery store, began pelting the convoy.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Peoples-Convoy-chased-out-of-Bay-Area-17122881.php
video was already posted in DU... here it is again for those who missed it
AllaN01Bear
(18,327 posts)still.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)Celerity
(43,469 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)That's the reception those assholes should have gotten all over the country.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,498 posts)Some of those throwing techniques though, ugh. I like the old dude, he was having none of it.
Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)dalton99a
(81,565 posts)Red Mountain
(1,737 posts)across the front windshield and most importantly the air intakes at the bottom of the windshield.
The gift that keeps on giving.
DBoon
(22,395 posts)Don't any of these kids have a dog?
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)that convoy should feel honored they went to such expense!
shanti
(21,675 posts)and they were heading east on I-50. Holding back traffic and in general, being assholes.
Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)Hekate
(90,768 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,335 posts)These idiots are still at it?
Why arent they being cited for illegal horn usage?
And how is that retired fire truck driver not being cited for illegal use of emergency signals?
Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)end game
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)These are not actual truckers.
I have not met an experienced trucker without a pee can.
The guys anyway.
These posers are being financed because a real trucker would not spend this much idle time wasting fuel.
HAB911
(8,909 posts)malaise
(269,144 posts)I thought the eggs could have fed a lot of poor folks.
Bravo young folks