Anti smoking extremist arrested for throwing dirt at people (sick humor)

[Bill Godshall]

Brookline (MA) Arrest Log: Anti-Smoking Dirt Thrower Arrested
Brookline Arrest Log: Anti-Smoking Dirt Thrower Arrested - Brookline, MA Patch

[h=1]Sunday, Sept 9[/h]

• Disorderly person – 21-year-old Matthew McDonald, Mashpee resident. At about 6:45 p.m., police responded to a disturbance in the 25 Washington Street area. A caller reported there was a shoeless man in a vest yelling at passing cars. When police caught up to him, they report he was digging in the dirt with his hands, and picking up clods of earth, then walking toward a group of people and throwing the dirt at them, yelling things like "smoking is dangerous" and "you shouldn't smoke, it could kill you." When officers tried to get his identity from him, he threw his wallet into the street. Officers then placed him in handcuffs, which he struggled against. Witnesses say he had thrown his shirt into the street, and was throwing handfuls of dirt at the nearby bridge, causing traffic to stop, and pulling out signs and other items in the area. He was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, malicious damage of prpoerty and resisting arrest. He was then transported to the hospital for evaluation. Police spoke with his mother, who says he had left Mashpee at 9 a.m., and was heading to Woonsocket, R.I., and she does not know how he got to the Boston-area.

You cannot make this stuff up.

 

[Petrodus]

I don't think it's "sick" humor ...
I think it's HILARIOUS

 

[Z_Ghost]

I wounder if he had been smoking some (OTHER STUFF) before hand

 

[BoiseMike]

Some take it even further.
Washington man arrested for pointing gun at smoking pregnant woman | Fox News

 

[VapApe]

And when he gets out he will start a nonprofit and get funding from BP

 

[vsummer1]

I don't want whatever he took. That is ridiculous behaviour.

 

[Hosedragger]

sounds like someone had some (OTHER STUFF)

 

[Vocalek]

Well, that story proves that the ANTZ campaign to demonize smokers is working.


...I was referring to the gunman and pregnant smoker, but I guess it would apply to the story in the OP as well.

 

[Petrodus]

It's understood our government and its agencies are in
a basically shutdown & do-nothing mode until after the election.
I'm wondering what the FDA has planned for us ... after the election.

Might just be my imagination ... but it seems to me I'm seeing
an increase in the number of embarrassing Chantix commercials on TV lately.

 

[TennDave]

I would say the man has a mental illness...either that or had a psychotic break...Snap!!
He probably didn't take his meds... Anyway, whatever was the case, smoking got to him.

 

[Petrodus]

Actually, bashing smokers has become a popular sport
because there's no opposition to bashing tobacco.... if that makes sense.

 

[Vocalek]

Unfortunately, it does make sense. That was part of the master plan all along: The demonization of smokers.

 

[DC2]

Unfortunately, it does make sense. That was part of the master plan all along: The demonization of smokers.

Well, to be fair, when you read their plan it actually says "denormalization" not demonization.
But denormalization often leads to demonization, whether intended or not.

 

[Vocalek]

Well, to be fair, when you read their plan it actually says "denormalization" not demonization.
But denormalization often leads to demonization, whether intended or not.

I'll be as fair with them as they are willing to be with us.