Tear Gas

Halloween is one of my favorite times during the year, I love to see everyone dressed in costumes and becoming a new personality for one night. This Halloween I spent in Madison, now this is no regular Halloween, Madison is know for its over excessive block party, with college students covering a 5 block radius, they are mostly shoulder to shoulder but you can find away through the mob of people. There are some very creative costumes such as a bock of wine (Franzia) or a piece from the Tetris game, which we all know and love so dearly. But in this mass crowd is our lovely law enforcement. Now they are not harassing the college students, in fact they are playing along with them, they are there to make sure we are safe and don’t riot. Now this is where we run into a problem, if the police think that students are going to riot then what do you think they are going to do? Once the clocks where turned back the party began, but to the few rowdy young adults in the mob of people thought it would be a great idea to start a fire in the middle of State St. this made the crowd go wild, and the police go No, NO. At this moment they brought in the riot police, where they pushed the crowed down to the end of State St. I was not on State St. but up above watching all the people run as they tried to escape what I thought was fake tear gas. Once the squad of police where below me and decided to spray what I still thought was smoke. It didn’t take a second for my body to react to the gas that had filled the air, and for my friends that had been on State Street and where crowing out on to the deck to join me and my teary eyed, snot filled face, to also encounter the pain that had been put into the air. With a sniper above me saying, “How do you like that.” and all of my friends crying and running inside to find that we can’t escape it. Once we close the windows the tear gas stayed to haunt us on this lovely Halloween weekend. As ten of us sit in this dirty hall trying to clear our lungs of the pollutant that our government has put in us, I watched Justine puke fallowed by a comment of Pete saying, “stop being so gross.” With our eyes full of tears, my nose filled with snot, and my pants full of piss from coughing to hard we found a way to laugh it off. We realized that there was tear gas lingering in to hall so we decided to go out side one more time; this is where the air was clean and fresh. But the cops where not to far from us and once again you could taste the tear gas in the air. We waited till things calmed down and walked our tired ass’s home.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!