Wall Street bull survives attack by matador; clowns arrested

[meow2u3]

Earlier today, a small group of Occupy Wall Street activists engaged in a near-successful corrida against the Wall Street Bull.

The incident began when two clowns, Hannah Morgan and Louis Jargow, scaled the steel barricades protecting the landmark. The clowns began spanking and climbing the beast, traditional ways of coaxing a bull into anger in preparation for a Castilian corrida, or bullfight.

Within seconds, police officers grabbed both clowns by their colorful shirts and wrestled one of them (Jargow) to the ground. The other (Morgan) continued to play the harmonica until an officer removed it from her mouth.

http://www.yeslab.org/bull
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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. "Landmark"

Indeed.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Need to slaughter that bull and BBQ it!!!! :) nt

[AllyCat]

8. No, I'm a vegetarian...I'd rather see it put out in a nice grassy open plain

protecting the Great Plains from the Keystone pipeline.

[cui bono]

10. But rehabilitate it first. n/t

[Sarah Ibarruri]

11. Okay, fine. ;-) Let's do that, then. nt

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Interesting fact- NYPD has also arrested the Bull...

The statue was placed on Wall Street in 89 or so, by the artist, middle of the night, as a gift to the city. This was a surprise to the city. NYPD impounded the piece and it was only returned to public view due to popular demand. To this day, the Bull sits under a temporary permit, it is not permanent, and not owned by the city of NY.

[Xithras]

4. Isn't the bull private property?

Why are the police protecting it?

[Bluenorthwest]

6. The artist owns the bulll...

it is not a permitted official piece, it was left there by the artist, and has been dragged away and impounded by NYPD itself in the past.
The Bull has an interesting story in and of itself...

[Xithras]

9. So why is NYPD protecting it?

You'd think that they'd just send a note to the artist, "Hey, we think these protesters might try to trash your piece. You may want to come pick it up or move it for a while."

Why are NY taxpayers footing the bill to protect a private art piece?

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. The power of symbols.

[noiretextatique]

7. don't they have other things to do?

like protect and serve?

[Turbineguy]

5. In the mean time

the market lost the entire amount of Italy's debt in a bond attack.

"The euro-region’s defenses are being breached.

Investors today propelled Italy’s 10-year bond yield to close at a euro-era high of 7.25 percent after the promised exit of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi failed to convince them that his country can slash Europe’s second-largest debt burden.

The biggest signal yet that the single currency’s third- largest economy is falling prey to its two-year debt crisis forces German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and their peers to decide just how far they’re willing to go to defend the euro."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-09/italy-bond-attack-breaches-euro-s-defenses-as-region-s-contagion-worsens.html

By "investors" they mean of course, predator speculators.