Lulz....since when can you legally confiscate anything anywhere even if its on your property? (BTW she was a building manager not an owner)

But sir...i didn't steal their wallet. I CONFISCATED it. Carry on then....

You're lucky you were able to bully those laser-pointer KIDS into giving you their pointer. They could have easily told you to buzz-off. Then What? Then you could have either awkwardly sat back down or you could have been the 'crazy lady' in a movie theatre.

The only legal thing to do is have a chat and if that doesn't work, call the authorities.

She wasn't stealing it, she confiscated it while they were engaged in something they were explicitly told not to do... ON HER PROPERTY.

A few years ago, I went to see Inception at the cinema and some little scumbags kept shining a laser pointer at the screen. After about 30 mins I figured out who it was, walked up to them, and told them to give it to me, or there would be trouble. They did, I gave it back to them after the movie. Was I stealing?

"They might have been within their rights to beat her senseless until she let them go."

No, they wouldn't have. Not even close. She wasn't holding them against their will, she took their board. By your rationale, a student would be entitled to beat a teacher senseless if they took the cell phone off them in class.

Frankly, fuck them. She asked them to leave and they deliberately set out to provoke her. They're cowardly little shits and they can count themselves lucky if they don't get in trouble.

edit: upvote, because as @spawnflagger says, I hope they get nailed because of this.

Lets just stick to laser pointers to get our cats attention.

raccoon : garden hose :: cat : laser pointer

Is it wrong that sometimes I want to try and down vote Siftbot just because the little down arrow is there. I find my mouse pointer just hanging over it.

I could have saved the city much easier with a red laser pointer.

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>> ^Mammaltron:

>> ^volumptuous:
QM, Pennypacker et al... They will respond to this in one of two ways:
1- "That's what these Spanish OWS losers get! go get a job!"
2- "This is what Obama is going to bring to America!"
Both are equally repulsive, and fictions of their imagination.

Sadly this IS what Obama will bring to America. It's poor consolation that it would be worse under Romney.
Bad or worse: America decides.


I hope so. GO OCCUPY!!! Also I'd like to point out a lot of the European problems stems from America and the World Economy that it has set up. So we gave that to you, maybe you can give us pointers on how to protest.

After watching this I realize that I am a very weak person. I have been in many protests but I have never been hit with a baton. If I experienced what these people did in the video I know now that I would simply snap. As soon as they started hitting back at that lone officer I shouted "Kill Him!" I'm a weak person, I do not love my fellow man enough to not take his life when he is beating me and in the wrong. Those protesters are immensely strong people, the weak ones have batons, the weak ones fight back with violence.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'flashback, sesame street, Pointer Sisters, seven' to 'flashback, sesame street, Pointer Sisters' - edited by messenger

Tags for this video have been changed from 'flashback, sesame street, Pointer Sisters' to 'flashback, sesame street, Pointer Sisters, seven' - edited by messenger

I found some sports wins too

http://sports.videosift.com/video/How-do-you-win-a-tournament-With-a-hole-in-one-of-course
http://videosift.com/video/Brandon-Roy-Game-Winning-Overtime-3-Pointer-Last-night
http://videosift.com/video/What-winning-feels-like
http://videosift.com/video/Lithuanian-Volleyball-Spike-Win
http://sports.videosift.com/video/Isaiah-Thomas-Game-Winning-Shot-Pac-10-Championship
http://sports.videosift.com/video/Little-Giants-Fake-FG-Pass-play-to-win-the-game-in-OT

Why is no one else getting in on this action?

>> ^Crosswords:

Troglodytes who touch computer screens to point at stuff.

It's even worse when it's the current user doing it. You've got a mouse under your hand that controls an object already on the screen, not coincidentally called a pointer!

Along the lines of what @Shayde said, I had a user once who not only got ink on the screen, but actually intentionally wrote on it. I kept throwing out her little post-it notes with her password on them, so she wrote it directly on the monitor screen.

>> ^ChaosEngine:

@spoco2 "white pointer" = Australian for great white.

Huh, I stand corrected. I didn't know they were one in the same, but there you go.

@spoco2 "white pointer" = Australian for great white.

From what I've read/experienced, if you see the shark, you're generally ok. If it's going to attack you'll probably never see it coming.

Amazing creature though, and what a great experience. Glad they didn't kill it.

Well technically, they said it was probably a white pointer, not great white.

But man, I'm damn impressed with how they handled that, very cool under pressure. Nice work boys.