Musicians Johnny Cash and Lou Reed were arrested by LAPD ealier today in two seperate incidences. Although neither Cash nor Reed were protesting, police said they both "matched the profile" of the notorious "Black Bloc" anarchists police claim are currently destroying civilization as we know it. Cash, often referred to as "The Man in Black" because of his fondness of dark clothing, was standing at the corner of Pico and Figuroa humming to himself picking daisies from a lawn when several riot police in full gear surrounded him, knocking him to the ground. He was then arrested although no charges were filed.


One hour later, near the Staples Center, singer-songwriter Lou Reed, formerly of the seminal proto-punk band the Velvet Underground, was sprayed in the face with pepper spray and dragged by several offices into a waiting paddy wagon. Speaking through his lawyer, Reed, famous for popularizing the black leather, black sunglasses look copied by so many in recent years, claims he was only, "Waiting for my man..." when police grabbed him and didn't even know that the Democrats were in Los Angeles.


When asked to comment on the arrests, LAPD spokesman Capt. James Roberts reached menacingly for his cannister of tear gas and replied, "Get used to it...soon all you black-wearin' motherf*ckers are gonna be joining them!!!" No further questions were asked.

Could somebody at the IMC actually do some phone calls to check up on this one.

It says "(Satire)" which means: it didn't really happen...(or did it?)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

From The UVic Writer's Guide

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Satire


Satire arouses laughter or scorn as a means of ridicule and derision, with the avowed intention of correcting human faults. Common targets of satire include
individuals ("personal satire"), types of people, social groups, institutions, and human nature. Like tragedy and comedy , satire is often a mode of writing
introduced into various literary forms; it is only a genre when it is the governing principle of a work. (See also Irony.)

In direct satire, a first-person speaker addresses either the reader or a character within the work (the adversarius) whose conversation helps further the
speaker's purposes, as in Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" (1735).

Indirect satire uses a fictional narrative in which characters who represent particular points of view are made ridiculous by their own behaviour and
thoughts, and by the narrator's usually ironic commentary. In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) the hero narrating his own adventures appears
ridiculous in taking pride in his Lilliputian title of honour, "Nardac"; by making Gulliver look foolish in this way, Swift indirectly satirizes the pretensions of
the English nobility, with its corresponding titles of "Duke" and "Marquess."