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Rapper Wiz Khalifa Violently Arrested by Cops at LAX for Using a Hoverboard

11 points by aaronbrethorst 11y ago

samstave 11y ago
Rant: The default response to "Stop resisting" should be allowed to be "Stop oppressing me". Seriously, I am so freaking tired of all police activity in the US - they are actually ruining our country. I would love for John Oliver to do a piece on "What if all mexicans disappeared in a mexican rapture from the US" -- showing how the entire country would grind to a halt if every mexican vanished. The point being that much of the invisible social mortar on how the US economy functions is work by mexican labor (cleaning, cooking, building, etc). Compare that to the argument that mexicans are taking jobs/ruining the country... I think the US police force in aggregate does more harm to the nation than do "illegal mexican immigrants". Further, if all cops were held to the same standards (there should be a national standard of laws and a central, citizen based, "internal affairs" that looks into every police matter, the world would be a better place (TM). Fuck these guys.
- zmonkeyz 11y ago
  I'd love to see that as well.
johnward 11y ago
I wonder why all of his recent videos were recorded with my mom's VHS camera from '92?
- mmosta 11y ago
  VHS Camcorder[0] app, trending these days. [0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vhs-amcorder/id679454835?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vhs-amcorder/id679454835?ls=...
  - johnward 11y ago
    This is one of those moments where you start to feel old.
gjolund 11y ago
Why is this click bait on hacker news? Leave this shit on facebook.
aaronbrethorst 11y ago
To the people asking why I submitted this: re-read the title of the article.
- gjolund 11y ago
  [Someone famous] [accosted by authority figures] at [somewhere controversial and well known] for using [harmless trendy tech] "Alec Baldwin kicked off a plane by TSA at LAX for using Words with friends." Sound familiar? This is clickbait, not a tech discussion.
  - GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
    I wouldn't call that 'accosted'.
    - gjolund 11y ago
      Full Definition of ACCOST transitive verb : to approach and speak to often in a challenging or aggressive way http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accost http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accost
- runbmd 11y ago
  I did, but I still don't know why.
huac 11y ago
Skrillex (a white 'DJ') used a hoverboard in Houston's airport this morning too - and with no physical violence or arrests ensuing. https://twitter.com/SarahNEmerson/status/635471677128884224 https://twitter.com/SarahNEmerson/status/635471677128884224 https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/635478299314143232 https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/635478299314143232
- aaronbrethorst 11y ago
  oh, that's what a hoverboard is. That's way less interesting than I thought.
phelm 11y ago
thats not a hoverboard, thats clickbait

Rant: The default response to "Stop resisting" should be allowed to be "Stop oppressing me". Seriously, I am so freaking tired of all police activity in the US - they are actually ruining our country. I would love for John Oliver to do a piece on "What if all mexicans disappeared in a mexican rapture from the US" -- showing how the entire country would grind to a halt if every mexican vanished. The point being that much of the invisible social mortar on how the US economy functions is work by mexican labor (cleaning, cooking, building, etc). Compare that to the argument that mexicans are taking jobs/ruining the country... I think the US police force in aggregate does more harm to the nation than do "illegal mexican immigrants". Further, if all cops were held to the same standards (there should be a national standard of laws and a central, citizen based, "internal affairs" that looks into every police matter, the world would be a better place (TM). Fuck these guys.

zmonkeyz 11y ago
I'd love to see that as well.

johnward 11y ago

I wonder why all of his recent videos were recorded with my mom's VHS camera from '92?

mmosta 11y ago
VHS Camcorder[0] app, trending these days. [0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vhs-amcorder/id679454835?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vhs-amcorder/id679454835?ls=...
- johnward 11y ago
  This is one of those moments where you start to feel old.

gjolund 11y ago

Why is this click bait on hacker news? Leave this shit on facebook.

aaronbrethorst 11y ago

To the people asking why I submitted this: re-read the title of the article.

gjolund 11y ago
[Someone famous] [accosted by authority figures] at [somewhere controversial and well known] for using [harmless trendy tech] "Alec Baldwin kicked off a plane by TSA at LAX for using Words with friends." Sound familiar? This is clickbait, not a tech discussion.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
  I wouldn't call that 'accosted'.
  - gjolund 11y ago
    Full Definition of ACCOST transitive verb : to approach and speak to often in a challenging or aggressive way http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accost http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accost
runbmd 11y ago
I did, but I still don't know why.

huac 11y ago

Skrillex (a white 'DJ') used a hoverboard in Houston's airport this morning too - and with no physical violence or arrests ensuing. https://twitter.com/SarahNEmerson/status/635471677128884224 https://twitter.com/SarahNEmerson/status/635471677128884224 https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/635478299314143232 https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/635478299314143232

aaronbrethorst 11y ago
oh, that's what a hoverboard is. That's way less interesting than I thought.

phelm 11y ago

thats not a hoverboard, thats clickbait