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More images and reports continue to come in from yesterday's Pillow Fight, including the video below that shows the one arrest police made. The Daily News is saying that the girl was arrested after hitting a cop with a pillow. They also talked to one combatant who told them, "We went to Century 21 to get our pillows, and all the pillows were sold out. All the cashiers were so confused, like, 'Why are all the pillows selling out now?'"
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lol, she hit a cop.
It's so great that the chickens in China (where the pillows are made) are plucked alive several times in their sh*tty lives so their feathers can be strewn all over NYC minutes after the pillows were bought.
I couldn't make it to Wall Street in time, so I just punched a baby for a few minutes. I bet it was almost as much fun as the pillow fight.
Man, you almost make it seem like the organizers don't specifically ask participants not to use feather pillows. Keep at it!
http://newmindspace.com/pillowfightnyc09.php
Not to mention that feather pillows aren't even made from chicken feathers.
Burnnnnn
What about all the poor defenseless cotton plants and polyester.. um.. polymers?
What is up with the sidewalk nonsense? The sidewalk is obviously not big enough for all those people.
This is what happens when you let Ice Cube make family movies, kids start hitting cops with pillows.
Excellent for the environment in so many ways!
So who paid to clean up this mess? Morons.
The organizers and participants clean it up for free.
San Francisco (where our pillow fight happens on Valentine's Day) had a bit of an issue this year when, on a slow news day many weeks later, a story biased enough to be an editorial complained about how much it had cost the city to clean up the fight. They claimed costs had run about $19,000 and wanted future events (this is the fourth year for it so you'd think they would have complained earlier) to pay the $1,750 estimated usage fee, file a permit, hire security, etc.
While the article that spawned much of our local controversy was rather poor it has at least sparked more interest in trying to make future events more low-impact and given a desire by some to try to encourage a "leave no trace" ethos. It's interesting to see how others are dealing with these issues. Especially when it's exactly the same one.
As for it getting out of control and too rough... yeah, we're having the same problem. I know a number of people who chose to stay home this year as it's just getting too big and too violent as bridge-and-tunnel teens start seeing it as a way to act out.
Regarding feathers, someone made this salient point on the pillow morons website:
"If you don't want people to use feather pillows, you may want to *not* have your promo shots and the background of this web page all be photos of feathers floating in a sunny sky..."
Leave it to New Yorkers to bitch about something so benign. And leave it to the NYPD to arrest someone just because they hit you with a pillow. I guess the Sean Bell case showed that none of them have any restraint whatsoever and this story just adds fuel to that fire.
I went to this event last year and it actually wasn't all that fun... there were a lot of younger guys who were being way too rough with the hitting. I know that sounds lame, but it isn't at all fun to get hit hard with about 6 pillows at the same time and get shoved in the process. It was seriously like a mosh pit.
The bubble battle is a lot better.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnhu/3412898779/
Wow, I really got a good picture of that girl.