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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
Sat May 11, 2013, 09:58 PM May 2013

First I Saw This, Then I Saw This.

First I saw this:



And I said WTF???

Then I saw this: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-subway-test-involving-release-harmless-gas-set-summer-article-1.1326103

And I said oh. Wait, WTF???

But it turns out that the poster was done by what I presume is a freelance street artist and NOT an official MTA/NYPD release. But it's strange how this persons art caused me to do further investigation which turned out to be based in reality about something I didn't even know was going to take place in my city.

Street artists like this are all over the city (which I love), like this one:

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First I Saw This, Then I Saw This. (Original Post) JaneyVee May 2013 OP
The family fleeing for their lives makes me Politicalboi May 2013 #1
The family fleeing are from signs posted on the freeways in So. Cal... KauaiK May 2013 #2
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
1. The family fleeing for their lives makes me
Sat May 11, 2013, 10:29 PM
May 2013

Want to go to NY. What fun it looks like. I may be a terrorist, and I don't even know it. Will I get my very own Drone moment?

I just noticed the Nazi SS symbols in that picture. At least they had the decency to have the equal sign as well. No discriminating here.

KauaiK

(544 posts)
2. The family fleeing are from signs posted on the freeways in So. Cal...
Sun May 12, 2013, 02:06 AM
May 2013

and in San Diego county. It's to alert drivers of families crossing the freeway to escape the Border Patrol. Many were killed in the 17 mi stretch between Oceanside and San Clemente.

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