Featherweights: Detroit police halt pillow fight
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DETROIT - Police in Detroit have ruffled some feathers after they cracked down on an organized pillow fight at a downtown park.
The Detroit News newspaper reports police at Campus Martius Park prevented the feathery fight Saturday by disarming pillow-toting participants.
The bout was part of a worldwide event organized on social networking websites.
Michael Davis says police confiscated the 32-year-old man's pillows but returned the cases.
He says he was told he needed a permit.
Scott Harris of Ferndale told the News it's "not illegal to own a pillow."
Detroit police spokesman James Tate says cleanup was the issue.
I've been to Detroit. Now I don't know for certain, but Detroit seems like the kind of place where police could find more things to do than chase down a few folks carrying pillows in public. What I would really like to know, is what happened elsewhere in downtown Detroit while police were hanging out at the park targeting those people just trying to re-live their slumber parties of youth? Then... to confiscate the pillows because they were carrying them without a permit! When did pillows become the new dangerous weapon of choice in the U.S.? To end this report, the DPD Spokesperson claimed the reason they were involved was because "cleanup is the issue". I'm thinking there are quite a few homeless individuals in downtown Detroit that would love to have a pillow, even once.
Maybe we need to look at the bigger picture here people.
Honestly!
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