A blow for freedom was struck last night. A brave pair, well Psy was brave and I was secretly praying my butt wasn't going to be slung into jail, was confronted by NO LESS than 4 police cars and one police helicopter. The resulting confrontation revealed:
1) Benchmark claims threats were made against them electronically. I can only presume this means via fornits.
2) Should Psy or myself step onto benchmark property we will be arrested for trespassing.
3) Should Benchmark piss their panties more than they have already they will get restraining orders against us.
I can't fully divulge the information we've gathered so far as it is being processed and examined with a critical eye for usability, but I can say the entire two days have been filled with fun and merriment.
OUR first day involved 1 college girl and a gang fight at Del Tacos here in Redlands.
While we were pulling through the drive thru to gorge upon a fare probably not fit for livestock a young girl asked us if we could buy her food for her and she would give us the money. Apparently a drive thru can't handle someone walking up on foot for reason of national security. We pulled up to the window and the worker said the girl and her two friends couldn't be walking and had to be in the car. We invited the girl into the car, and by that time she had revealed her entire life story and I was pondering stapling her mouth shut.
Once in back the two other fellows wandered off only to run into a couple of their rival gang members. Much to my delight, as I'm a goon who appreciates a good rumpus, a damn good fight broke out. The girl immediately starts howling like a banshee, making me wish I had not forgotten my staple gun at home, and Psy being a gentleman was trying to reassure her that the friend getting kicked in the head wouldn't be brain damaged for life.
Suffices to say the gang rumpus ran its course and the Redlands 5-0 came roaring up. I believe they dispatched two whole police cars and a fire truck for a gang brawl. Amusingly this is the same area that had a similiar incident involving guns the week before according the howling and wailing young waif in the back of the car.
We departed the scene and relieved ourselves of the sobbing young lady into the tender mercies of her pim... boyfriend and took off.
The next day the fun really began...
We tailed a couple benchmark vans... we talked to a few locals.. we staked out the facility...
That night we finally located the majority of the students at the Benchmark brain rape center.
Following a van back we managed to get noticed.. and of course the driver of the van began driving around the block to figure out if we were folliwng her..
Psy stayed on her tail and we pulled up along side and got a good video shot of her with hand held.
Once we parked not far away from the facility we were paid our visit by the Redlands 5-0.. this is the 4 police cars and one police helicopter..
For A VIDEO CAMERA... is it ironic that a possible violent encounter with gang members is given less attention than our use of a video camera?
Beats me..
The police, one of the officers was quite nice and a very helpful in educating us in the possible local filming laws, let us go on our way. Another of the cops was quite irate with us and accused his partner of being all buddy buddy with us..
Another conclusion can be drawn with the proper information, but I'll leave psy to provide that in his own good time.
Today we dropped by the facility and picketed it.
Yep.. two dudes with a camera or two and some signs... we got alot of stares, and a few insults..
But in the end the results were worth it.. Those on the inside.. KNOW we on the outside are there for them..
Why??
THE Signs were facing in to the students.. NOT out to the locals for a quick sound byte on the local news.....
We will picket them again tommorrow prior to our departure Saturday afternoon.. MORE to follow and I'll leave it to Psy's scrawny carcass to fill in the details...
go picket a facility now.. face the signs in for the students... DO ETTTTTT!!!!!
