Jim Buck gets all the credit:
Woman okay after falling into Susquehanna River
A quiet, solo protest against massive federal government spending ended in a city woman being rescued from the cold waters of the Susquehanna River on Wednesday morning.
Joanne Millard, 68, a resident at Riverfront Apartments, slipped on a rock and then fell into the water while dumping tea leaves from a plastic bag into the river to protest the recent trillions of dollars in government spending.
The sender says:
Jordi,
Tax protester falls in river and must be rescued by govt. she doesn't want to pay for. Thought you might want to post this at Daily Kos or something :)
Well, I got as far as this blog.
Democratic Underground already found it.
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Not to be a wet blanket, but I find some of those comments at Democratic Underground are really ugly and distasteful. This was a woman my parents' age, clearly not trying to show off for anyone, who had an accident. My reaction to the story was actually that I was proud we live in a place where a neighbor missed her, went looking for her, and got her rescued. That's a good old-fashioned Susquehanna Valley protest with a happy ending, if you ask me. Lots of places, things might not have worked out that way. Some of the people on that other blog think they are so clever pointing out how she "wasted valuable taxpayer resources" getting rescued, which is a lot of bull. Anyone who knows anything about how local fire/ambulance corps work knows that if someone so much as twists their ankle and calls for help they're likely to get 2 fire trucks and an ambulance in the blink of an eye. That's just the automatic response. This woman wasn't wasting anyone's resources.
The things worth making fun of about the tea party protests were: (a) the term "teabagging" itself, (b) the fact that they were astroturf (i.e. fake grassroots) events basically sponsored by Fox and Newt Gingrich, and (c) it wasn't even clear what they were supposed to be protesting. (Taxes? A deficit? Then where were you guys when Bush was simultaneously cutting taxes and starting a war?) Whatever her reason, this woman wasn't a hypocrite or blowhard trying to garner attention, she just thought it would make her feel better to huck some tea. So be it. It's a free country. She doesn't deserve the ridicule or the namecalling over there.
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