NOT THE SHARPEST KNIVES IN THE DRAWER: You Can Find A Cop When You Don't Need One
Members of the Urban Playground Movement organized a “flash mob” for a spontaneous pillow fight at Detroit’s Campus Martius Park - one of 50 locations worldwide where pillow fights were going to be held - only to have Detroit police officers stationed at the park seize the fluffy “weapons” on sight, reports The Detroit News
"I am furious," 23-year-old Elida Quesada of Ferndale said as she fumed while watching officers take pillows as soon as people showed up with them. "It (a pillow fight) is so silly and childlike. It would have been fun. It seems like everything that is fun is illegal." …
One officer told a would-be pillow fighter that 5,000 pillows had been seized by the planned 4 p.m. start of the event.
Detroit Police spokesman James Tate would not say how police learned about the event in advance. He said there were numerous Internet postings. He said the event posed a cleanup issue because typically there are large amounts of feathers and other pillow fillings left behind. There also were concerns of people getting hit who did not wish to participate, he said.
It’s not like the Detroit police force doesn’t have more serious concerns than a few feathers flying.
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