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HN has more variety when it comes to posters than you think. There's one guy here who spent time in prison for eco-terrorism.

askonomm 3y ago
I spent 3 months in prison for getting drunk, stealing a row boat, and escaping from the police on said boat. My cellmates called me a low budget pirate. That was 10 years ago now. I've met tons of people like me who are otherwise in fields you'd associate with intellect. Some of us just have a knack for testing the limits of society.
- marcus_holmes 3y ago
  Why is your username for everything not "low_budget_pirate"? Great story :)
- j-a-a-p 3y ago
  At probably a similar level of intoxication we found a boat and used it to enter a military compound in the city center of a small town called Delft. Me and my companion who were in the military at the time thought that would be a good idea. The boat however was leaking quite a bit and sunk right after we arrived. We managed to get into the building, which had a museum, and found a nice spot to sleep. It was not a difficult choice, either that, a forced exfiltration or a nightly swim. The next morning the person who opened the building did not even try to contain 2 x 2m young men.
  - fransje26 3y ago
    > a military compound in the city center of a small town called Delft You mean like, the military museum?
nandhinianand 3y ago
Ughhh.. I hate that word, especially when it refers to the protest acts like spaghetti on art, or slow march on a road delaying traffic etc... I think partly because it smells like a society that has started worshipping "traffic" or "business as usual" instead of doing that by deliberate choice.
- blululu 3y ago
  Maybe this is splitting hairs but those just seem like classic non-violent protests instead of terrorism. Ecoterrorism is something like spiking trees so that loggers will get blasted with chainsaw shrapnel when they try to cut through a 1000 year old tree. Terrorism is of course a loose term but it generally requires some element of violent coercion. Throwing soup at a painting is obnoxious but children will not have nightmares over it.
- causality0 3y ago
  If I recall correctly he waged harassment campaigns against individual people and their families that included death threats, showing up at their house in the middle of the night, and mailing them dead animals.
rollcat 3y ago
I'd imagine the intersection of "intellectually curious" and "dealing with the consequences of interesting life choices" is far greater than most of us would suspect at first. I'd also imagine the variety of circumstances in the latter category easily rivals the former.

askonomm 3y ago

I spent 3 months in prison for getting drunk, stealing a row boat, and escaping from the police on said boat. My cellmates called me a low budget pirate. That was 10 years ago now. I've met tons of people like me who are otherwise in fields you'd associate with intellect. Some of us just have a knack for testing the limits of society.

marcus_holmes 3y ago
Why is your username for everything not "low_budget_pirate"? Great story :)
j-a-a-p 3y ago
At probably a similar level of intoxication we found a boat and used it to enter a military compound in the city center of a small town called Delft. Me and my companion who were in the military at the time thought that would be a good idea. The boat however was leaking quite a bit and sunk right after we arrived. We managed to get into the building, which had a museum, and found a nice spot to sleep. It was not a difficult choice, either that, a forced exfiltration or a nightly swim. The next morning the person who opened the building did not even try to contain 2 x 2m young men.
- fransje26 3y ago
  > a military compound in the city center of a small town called Delft You mean like, the military museum?

nandhinianand 3y ago

Ughhh.. I hate that word, especially when it refers to the protest acts like spaghetti on art, or slow march on a road delaying traffic etc... I think partly because it smells like a society that has started worshipping "traffic" or "business as usual" instead of doing that by deliberate choice.

blululu 3y ago
Maybe this is splitting hairs but those just seem like classic non-violent protests instead of terrorism. Ecoterrorism is something like spiking trees so that loggers will get blasted with chainsaw shrapnel when they try to cut through a 1000 year old tree. Terrorism is of course a loose term but it generally requires some element of violent coercion. Throwing soup at a painting is obnoxious but children will not have nightmares over it.
causality0 3y ago
If I recall correctly he waged harassment campaigns against individual people and their families that included death threats, showing up at their house in the middle of the night, and mailing them dead animals.

rollcat 3y ago

I'd imagine the intersection of "intellectually curious" and "dealing with the consequences of interesting life choices" is far greater than most of us would suspect at first. I'd also imagine the variety of circumstances in the latter category easily rivals the former.