Current Events > Man gets arrested for smoking outside in NYC

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https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1677755359849754624

Good.

People who expose other people to secondhand smoke purposefully should be treated no differently than people who drive under the influence. It should come with jail time and be treated as manslaughter.

Getting arrested like a sir.

...so, there's like at least 9 officers in the video arresting this guy
Srsly?
Why not just call the national guard while at it.

90 cops

Requiem posted...

...so, there's like at least 9 officers in the video arresting this guy
Srsly?
Why not just call the national guard while at it.

Need to send a nuclear strike. You can never be too careful.

Lets all laugh at Coyote

radical_rhino posted...

Lets all laugh at Coyote

I mean, you have to be a pretty hardcore sociopath to think it is cool or funny to trigger people's asthma and give them cancer.

CoyoteTheGreat posted...

I mean, you have to be a pretty hardcore sociopath to think it is cool or funny to trigger people's asthma and give them cancer.

Shut the fuck up

electricbugs2 posted...

Shut the fuck up

You try it instead.

Its bad enough to have a disgusting addictive vice without it being a vice that murders other people. If you want to smell like shit all day and have a voice that sounds like shit, I say more power to do, but go do it away from other people, not in fucking public.

CoyoteTheGreat posted...

You try it instead.

Its bad enough to have a disgusting addictive vice without it being a vice that murders other people.

Cant you read? You were told to shut the fuck up. Stop posting this drivel.

electricbugs2 posted...

Cant you read? You were told to shut the fuck up. Stop posting this drivel.

I'll post whatever I want, thanks.

No one is required to spare some smoker their feelings.

CoyoteTheGreat posted...

Good.

People who expose other people to secondhand smoke purposefully should be treated no differently than people who drive under the influence. It should come with jail time and be treated as manslaughter.

Shut the fuck up.

People that smoke are trash

Coyote, if you watch the video it seems like the guy was following the rules by not smoking inside the park.

It seems he's being arrested due to not providing identification.

Tig posted...

Shut the fuck up.

No.

CoyoteTheGreat posted...

Good.

People who expose other people to secondhand smoke purposefully should be treated no differently than people who drive under the influence. It should come with jail time and be treated as manslaughter.

Are you aware that there are people in this world that have a severe medical condition which causes them to be that way? My mother for instance is one of those people. She is a truck driver that has bad knees and a bad back from driving the truck but you probably do not care about that case either. Oh well I am not one of those people I am 6'4" 245lbs and I exercise every day. I would love to see you say something like to my mother in front of me. Probably never happen though you are probably just an internet tough guy. I doubt very seriously you would say that to someones face. Just my thought.What do you think. Oh I am sorry you probably do not have a brain. I on the other hand will be happy to buy you a plane ticket to come here and see if you have the nerve to say that to someone I know.

Garabandal posted...

Are you aware that there are people in this world that have a severe medical condition which causes them to be that way? My mother for instance is one of those people. She is a truck driver that has bad knees and a bad back from driving the truck but you probably do not care about that case either. Oh well I am not one of those people I am 6'4" 245lbs and I exercise every day. I would love to see you say something like to my mother in front of me. Probably never happen though you are probably just an internet tough guy. I doubt very seriously you would say that to someones face. Just my thought.What do you think. Oh I am sorry you probably do not have a brain. I on the other hand will be happy to buy you a plane ticket to come here and see if you have the nerve to say that to someone I know.

There is no severe medical condition that requires someone to expose another person to secondhand smoke, what the fuck are you even talking about? Or are you trying to say that it is good to drive under the influence?

Garabandal posted...

Are you aware that there are people in this world that have a severe medical condition which causes them to be that way? My mother for instance is one of those people. She is a truck driver that has bad knees and a bad back from driving the truck but you probably do not care about that case either. Oh well I am not one of those people I am 6'4" 245lbs and I exercise every day. I would love to see you say something like to my mother in front of me. Probably never happen though you are probably just an internet tough guy. I doubt very seriously you would say that to someones face. Just my thought.What do you think. Oh I am sorry you probably do not have a brain. I on the other hand will be happy to buy you a plane ticket to come here and see if you have the nerve to say that to someone I know.

What in God's name....?

Garabandal posted...

Are you aware that there are people in this world that have a severe medical condition which causes them to be that way? My mother for instance is one of those people. She is a truck driver that has bad knees and a bad back from driving the truck but you probably do not care about that case either. Oh well I am not one of those people I am 6'4" 245lbs and I exercise every day. I would love to see you say something like to my mother in front of me. Probably never happen though you are probably just an internet tough guy. I doubt very seriously you would say that to someones face. Just my thought.What do you think. Oh I am sorry you probably do not have a brain. I on the other hand will be happy to buy you a plane ticket to come here and see if you have the nerve to say that to someone I know.

What is this dumb post

This topic went places.

I want a plane ticket. Unless you live somewhere crappy then nvm

Yazarogi posted...

Coyote, if you watch the video it seems like the guy was following the rules by not smoking inside the park.

It seems he's being arrested due to not providing identification.

I mean, if he was following the rules, then he shouldn't have gotten arrested (And he certainly didn't get arrested for the reason the clickbait title suggested then, so you should be taking that up with TC rather than me). I've only stated what I think the law -should- be, but I obviously don't think that cops should just run around arresting people without cause.

Garabandal posted...

Are you aware that there are people in this world that have a severe medical condition which causes them to be that way? My mother for instance is one of those people. She is a truck driver that has bad knees and a bad back from driving the truck but you probably do not care about that case either. Oh well I am not one of those people I am 6'4" 245lbs and I exercise every day. I would love to see you say something like to my mother in front of me. Probably never happen though you are probably just an internet tough guy. I doubt very seriously you would say that to someones face. Just my thought.What do you think. Oh I am sorry you probably do not have a brain. I on the other hand will be happy to buy you a plane ticket to come here and see if you have the nerve to say that to someone I know.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/0/1/AAPV5JAAEpJN.jpg

Yeah a twitter user named clown world is definitely giving full context

One of those stories where CHUDs have to reconcile their unwavering support for the white supremacist police with a misappropriation of it's use against something they care about.

Irony posted...

What is this dumb post

it's a copy pasta.

Garabandal posted...

Are you aware that there are people in this world that have a severe medical condition which causes them to be that way? My mother for instance is one of those people. She is a truck driver that has bad knees and a bad back from driving the truck but you probably do not care about that case either. Oh well I am not one of those people I am 6'4" 245lbs and I exercise every day. I would love to see you say something like to my mother in front of me. Probably never happen though you are probably just an internet tough guy. I doubt very seriously you would say that to someones face. Just my thought.What do you think. Oh I am sorry you probably do not have a brain. I on the other hand will be happy to buy you a plane ticket to come here and see if you have the nerve to say that to someone I know.

To me, Tool's Lateralus is the most amazing piece of music ever composed. I think Tool deliberately wanted to give their fans something truly amazing, but wanted them to find it on their own. "Recognize this as a holy gift..." At first, I thought that the song Lateralus was about tripping acid - discovering true color by seperating the body from the mind. At first listen, I imagined the bending envelope as an intense visual. After becoming more familiar with the track, however, I had reformed my interpretation to something broader: think deeper. Lateralus, perhaps because it is the album's "title track", serves as the central clue for a puzzle that a friend of mine had read about somewhere on the internet. "All I know is that there is a different order for the songs - something about two spirals.

Oh yeah, and thirteen is in the middle." After scavenging through endless google search results, I gave up on finding more about this 'alternate order'. Intent to figure the album out, and very curious about the spirals - I put on the proverbial 'thinking cap'. I understood how the spirals could have a lot of significance, in that the album's title track offers the inspiring, "swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human..........And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been. We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been."

In my internet scavenging, I had read one review, written by a drummer, who mentioned that Danny Carey's drum beat formed a fibonacci sequence during the song Lateralus. A drummer myself, I decided to get out the graph paper and follow Danny. I can't play like he can, but at least I can hear everything he's doing, and thus was able to construct the drum tabulature. Sure enough, Danny repeats a Fibonacci sequence through the number 13: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13. After 13, he starts again with 1. Bringing in my Algebra 2 knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence, when the equation for the Fibonacci sequence (which I don't actually know) is graphed, it forms a sprial whose vertex depends on the number at which the sequence begins.

Coincidence? I began to think not. I had already known of Danny's obsession with sacred geometry and am familiar with Bob Frissell's book, Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are , so the significance of what I had stumbled upon had actually begun to settle in. This is where I just had to play with Lateralus. I had doodled a few spirals in the corners of my graph paper, and in doing so made the first important connection to Lateralus. I knew that if the tracks were in fact intended to be heard in a different order, "Parabol" and "Parabola" would have to go together.

In drawing my spirals, I had begun with a vertex and 'spiraled' outwards. After writing the numbers 1 through 13 linearly, I could immediately see that Parabol and Parabola would have to be the middle of my spiral (in that 13 / 2 = 6.5). I drew a simple arrow between 6 and 7 and then pondered the next pair. At first, I actually drew a spiral connecting pairs of numbers whose sum equaled 13 (the number of songs on the album). This, however, left the last track in the same position and without anything to connect to. At this time, I had used my copy of Lateralus and Cool Edit Pro to take out the silences between tracks and put the songs in the following order: 6,7,5,8,4,9,3,10,2,11,1,12,13.

The transition from Parabola into Schism blew my mind, as the plucks, probably dismissed by listeners as a drawn out rant of an ending, perfectly transition into the beginning of Schism. When you count out beats as the strings are plucked, Schism resumes with the same time signature and tempo - mirroring the progression of notes. The transition from Schism into Ticks & Leeches is equally intriguing. Schism ends with strong double-kick bass and tom smacks, and Ticks & Leeches begins with what many would call a 'tribal' drum beat. The beat at the very start of Ticks & Leeches is slightly different every subsequent time it is repeated - the measures are two beats longer. Yup - you guessed it - those two beats are ACTUALLY the last two beats of Schism.

I can honestly say that I never understood the album's fourth track, Mantra until reordering the album's songs. What I had originally heard as whale calls now had begun to resemble the worst imaginable dry heaves - or a stylized choking. Fitting, seeing as how the last line in Ticks & Leeches is "I hope you choke." After this transition, none of those following it really seemed to make much sense. I certainly didn't like that Disposition and Reflection had been seperated - as they sound quite good when played sequentially on the album. This was the only real roadblock in my disciphering of the Holy Gift.

Then I had remembered what my friend had told me - 13 was in the middle. At the time, probably just wanting to believe that there was more to this cd, I had equated this to the positioning of the song "Intermission" on the previous release, nema. For the song to be in the 'middle' of the album it would have to be the seventh track in sequence, here having six tracks on either side of it. So I inserted Faaip de Oiad after Lateralus, and almost peed my pants when I discovered that (ever-so-faintly) the fading tone of the last note of Lateralus could be heard in beginning of Faaip de Oiad, and how the distortion of the guitars at the tail end of Lateralus resembled, and later transitioned seamlessly into, the static at the beginning of Faaip de Oiad. The lyrics of Lateralus justify this break in the spiral, almost instructing: "spiral out, keep going, spiral out, keep going." I went back to Lateralus to find the next clue.

In Danny Carey's amazingly competent Fibonacci sequence, he had stopped at 13 and gone back to 1. This is what I chose to do to finish the sequence. A second spiral was now constucted, and the order for the Holy Gift now became 6,7,5,8,4,9,13,1,12,2,11,3,10. Already many of you are probably fascinated at what I have revealed to you, but I can not even begin to tell you what this new order has opened up for me. The beauty of Lateralus is very, very fragile and has to be viewed with a very open mind. It can also be different when looked at from different points of view. Aside from the fact that the new order of the songs places them in an order where they flow together nicely - often ending and resuming on the same notes or within the same progression, and some times - in the case of Lateralus into Faaip de Oiad and The Grudge into Triad - even overlapping (though admittadly sound much better when actually electronically overlapped, this is kind of cheating.

Based, everyone who smokes in public should be arrested

Consider this a hint, however, if you plan on doing this yourself), the two spirals help to tell a story that every Tool fan should hear. In the interest of not boring the only casually intrigued, I will try to keep this very brief. I would also recommend familiarizing yourselves with Frissell's book (yeah - the one I mentioned earlier). I consider Parabol and Parabola to be quite expository. Maynard wants us to know that no matter what happens, we must all know that this is not our only existance. Our very minds and the contents of our subconscious are intended to be immortal, and if we accept this into our lives (be it because of personal or religious reasons), it will be so. As such, pain is an illusion.

At first, I called it "The Lateralus Prophecy" (for reasons you will soon understand), but I have since decided to call the 'reordered' version of Lateralus "The Holy Gift". As Maynard says, "Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing," I take the word "this" to mean much more than just his simple cautioning. Since Parabola is the second track of the Holy Gift, it can be considered at the beginning (esp. considering the context of it's duality with Parabol), and as such, I interpret Maynard's words as more than just clever lyrics in a song. They are a plead for his listeners to listen to everything he has to say and truly celebrate the chance of immortality offered throughout.

I would be lying if I said that each song has a specific translation. On the contrary, Tool's music is designed to make you think, not say something specific. It must be treated like great literature - much is hidden contextually. I will elude to Geometric-Drumming's previous post, where he explains the time signatures of Schism: "It represents the title...it's arranged in 12/8 time which is SPLIT into 5/8 and 7/8 - which only really FITS as you PUT THE PIECES BACK TOGETHER." Where Geometric-Drumming claims Schism as his favorite Tool song, I have heard some fans say that it was a retched pick for the album's only single - but I think it was brilliant. Not to downplay the interpretations of those who have posted before me (in fact, I agree with much of what %BlueSoulRobot% has to say), but I think that to the casual listener who knows nothing of Tool, it can be a powerful invitation.

Think about it - a lot of dingbats with MTV and a radio would walk around with the words "I know the pieces fit" in their heads. I wonder how many of them took the time to put the pieces back together to (re)discover what is trying to be communicated. I welcome any feedback. I would love to share interpretations of the songs via email - just too lengthy to post here. I would like to offer the following advice: DO NOT use MP3s to digitally reorder Lateralus. A lot of VERY IMPORTANT information is encoded on the actual cd. Ever notice how everyone who has lost or broken that cd has IMMEDIATELY gone out and bought a new copy? I know I have. It's because there are things encoded on the factory pressing of the cd that are lost in the mp3 compression process and any direct copy onto a cd-r. If you want to do it, do it right - I can't stress how important this is. Use the cda tracks as you put it together and maintain all audio fidelity using professional mixing software.

There's a Fibonacci in Maynard's lyrics, specifically the syllables: black [1] then [1] white are [2] all I see [3] in my infancy [5] red and yellow then came to be [8] reaching out to me [5] lets me see [3] there is [2] so [1] much [1] more and [2] beckons me [3] to look through to these [5] infinite possibilities [8] as below so above and beyond I imagine [13] drawn outside the lines of reason [8] push the envelope [5] watch it bend [3] I suppose it's not actually a true Fibonacci, since it does reverse itself. the Fibonacci Sequence. It's basically a string of numbers that when you add a number to the number before it, you get the next number. Starting with the numbers 0 and 1. 0+1=1, so the set now looks like this; 0 1 1. You take the 1 and add the previous number (1) and you get 2. The sequence looks like this; 0 1 1 2. Now you take the 2 and add the previous number and get 3. Now you have 0 1 1 2 3. When you add the 3 and the 2 you get 5. 0 1 2 3 5. 5+3=8. 0 1 1 2 3 5 8. The process continues.

Used to smoke 20 a day. More if I was going out.

Cut down to one over the course of a year. I smoke it in my back garden after dinner with a glass of something nice.

Having that one cigarette is what keeps me from relapsing. Knowing that if I can get through the day, I'll have my reward.

(Tried vaping instead. Didn't much care for it).

Coyote what youre doing is called concern trolling you dont give af about people getting cancer youre main objective is to defend cops but in the very next thread you will defend tobacco companies so what the purpose of a business is to make money knock it off dude

Eramir posted...

Coyote what youre doing is called concern trolling you dont give af about people getting cancer youre main objective is to defend cops but in the very next thread you will defend tobacco companies so what the purpose of a business is to make money knock it off dude

Lol, I don't defend the shitty mafia called the New York Police Department or any kind of corporations. You have no fucking clue what you are talking about dude.

ai123 posted...

Used to smoke 20 a day. More if I was going out.

Cut down to one over the course of a year. I smoke it in my back garden after dinner with a glass of something nice.

Having that one cigarette is what keeps me from relapsing. Knowing that if I can get through the day, I'll have my reward.

(Tried vaping instead. Didn't much care for it).

I mean, that's fine. As long as you smoke only among other smokers or in the privacy of your garden alone, it doesn't really matter to me and its your choice to do this with your health.

I only have a problem with people smoking out in public and deciding to fuck over other people.

CoyoteTheGreat posted...

I mean, that's fine. As long as you smoke only among other smokers or in the privacy of your garden alone, it doesn't really matter to me and its your choice to do this with your health.

I only have a problem with people smoking out in public and deciding to fuck over other people.

Oh, I insist on being alone.

That time is just for me.

It was more entertaining watching all the cops try and keep busy since so many responded to it.

"Don't worry guys I got the cigarette butt evidence secured!"

Lmao, nobody recognized the family member truck driver copy pasta. That one used to make me laugh so hard

Blow smoke in Coyote's face

CoyoteTheGreat posted...

Good.

People who expose other people to secondhand smoke purposefully should be treated no differently than people who drive under the influence. It should come with jail time and be treated as manslaughter.

Hahhaha and you have the gall to call me a troll. Coyote once again showing just how extreme he is.

Can any of yall honestly say that you came into this topic expecting it to be a white guy in a suit?

mustachedmystic posted...

Can any of yall honestly say that you came into this topic expecting it to be a white guy in a suit?

I sure tf didn't

People who smoke in public should be outcasted and tried for treason!

That dumb motherfucker in the video should be thrown under the prison!