It was like an episode of HBO's The Wire

[roseBudd]

I live in SW Ohio and I have been posting and handing out the TWO-FACED graphic the DNC wanted us to disseminate for a week now. I choose really busy streets with lots of foot traffic, ie. the main arteries that pass through low income areas as they funnel suburban commuters to their downtown jobs.

I had just finished glueing TWO-FACED to all 4 corners of a really big intersection just 1.5 blocks from the police station. I was walking down the street when I turned my head and realized there was a cop car behind me. The contraband I had on me was the flyers that the cop would have just seen at the intersection, a can of spray adhesive, a staple gun and tape.

The cop did not drive on by but pulled into the KFC parking lot and appeared to be watching me. A man standing on the corner with a better view told me the cop was not getting chicken.

I surreptitiously handed the clipboard with flyers to a young boy and asked him to make it disappear around the corner and then handed the glue spray to a man sitting on a stoop and asked him to hide it. I walked a few more feet and dropped the staple gun behind a tree.

Unlike The Wire I knew I could not blend in as I was the only white person for several blocks. Cutting through alleys and vacant lots I was able to eventually come out behind my car. However because of the direction my car was facing I had to drive past the cop still in the KFC parking lot.

Now some people would have given up on their contraband and just bought another staple gun, flyers and spray adhesive. Not me. I parked my car in an alley and creeped through vacant lots and down deserted alleys to come up behind where I had handed off my contraband. The cop was still in the KFC parking lot! I continued to peek around the corner of a building until the cop pulled off.

My partners in crime had saved my contraband for me and my staple gun was still laying on the ground behind a tree. I then proceeded to hang the rest of my flyers.

Go to http://somnamblst.tripod.com to download high resolution TIF or PDF file to print and distribute everywhere. Utility poles, bus stops, bulletin boards, newspaper racks, car windshields, phone booths, etc. Guerilla marketers needed to create MAXIMUM BUZZ!

[bo44]

1. you'd be beat to shit if the cop was Herc or Carver

Good job rosebud.

[skylarmae]

2. Brave - brave - brave !!

JUST BE CAREFUL. You don't want to get picked by a georgie porgie
supportin'officer with an attitude.

[roseBudd]

4. The ONLY reason I was concerned about being arrested

it wasn't because I was posting bills in Over-the Rhine, it was because I was posting bills that were antiBush.

Using glue I believe means vandalism, while staplegun or tape is viewed as merely an annoyance.

[Astrochimp]

8. staples are nasty..................

As a guy who used to climb poles for a living, staples and nails are the worst, so please only use them when you must.


Keep up the good work!

[roseBudd]

10. The utility poles I use staples on are already covered with staples

near campus.

I prefer using spray adhesive on metal surfaces, so freeptards have to use their fingernails and a lot of time peeling.

[swag]

3. Great story. But it made me hungry for KFC.

DAMN YOU!

[Dzimbowicz]

5. Keep up the good work!

[catbert836]

6. Good job- just be careful

The vast majority of cops are right-wing sadists.

[senseandsensibility]

7. You kept your head "under fire!"

You remind me of John Kerry.

[roseBudd]

9. I knew from watching The Wire

that I needed to appear like I was not handing off contraband, that I was not spooked by seeing the cop and that I could count on the people around me to help me evade detection.

Earlier in the week when I ducked into a doorway when I saw a cop car a woman passing by asked if I was alright. She then spotted the cop car smiled and said, you hiding from the cop? She then waited around and told me when I could emerge.

BTW the TWO-FACED graphic is the perfect message for the innercity. Everyone loves it and it starts some really good dialog on the street.

[senseandsensibility]

15. Okay, rosebud, is it possible

that you're enjoying this too much? LOL!:) Get the image out there, but be careful. Do it legally; it's just as effective. Plus, if you're legal, you'll be free to spread the message more widely. There's no law against putting up posters, is there? I'm glad you're spreading the word in the inner city areas. The people there have much to lose from another * administration.

[LoZoccolo]

11. Uh, like, we're not supposed to be breaking the law doing this.

I am one of the most enthusiastic about the two-face thing, but if you're doing things that you're not supposed to, like stapling things to utility poles, it starts to look like the Democratic Party is encouraging vandalism.

[Eric J in MN]

12. How do you think we should spread the Two-Face? nt

nt

[roseBudd]

14. TWO-FACED is best for innercity and college campus demographics

Innercity people are very concerned about this election being stolen.

I tell them we "got lawyers, guns and money" and that we are hip to GOP tricks and to not listen to the polls because they are just trying to psyche us out. As the polls swing back Kerry's way I think the mood and morale in the innercity will improve.

[LoZoccolo]

17. I passed out business cards.

There are also lots of places where they want you to post things.

[roseBudd]

19. I've also done all the bulletin boards at UC

but frat boys tear them down

[roseBudd]

13. Flyers on poles in neighborhoods where there are flyers

on every pole is the norm and does not look out of place.

i think flyers look like grassroots activism

[roseBudd]

16. The only reason I worry about being seen by law enforcement

is not because I am posting bills but because the bill I post is antiBush. Around UC the poles are so covered with flyers it's hard to find space to post.

[LoZoccolo]

18. You should also worry if the DNC will ever do anything like this again...

...if they get enough complaints about stuff being where it shouldn't ought.