Brussels (Belgium) FD protests: Cops eat foam.

[Theusje]

Due to the political mess that Belgium is the firefighters at Brussels FD can't be promoted. Some off them should be earning up to $400/month more then now.

Anyway here's a blog with some pictures:
http://luc-de-pompier.skynetblogs.be...t-picque1.html

And here is a news site with some pictures and if you scroll down a bit you'll find a video which is worth watching imo.
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/det...MF20110325_053

In the end nobody got hurt and the FD gave the cops some fruit and one FF tried to be a gentleman with a female cop.

[snowball]

Thanks for sharing. I find it interesting that firefighters there get to protest their differences using apparatus and equipment from the department, lighting fires in the middle of the street, and making a mess out of what looked like a couple of city blocks.
Over here we would be arrested.

[FWDbuff]

Over here we would be arrested.

And shooting foam at the cops? Over here that would get you shot.

[Theusje]

The cops should've expected to get foamed. It's almost a given if a FD protests.

Also if the cops were to use violence then things would errupt into riots, which happend in Paris (France) a couple of years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Vtw...eature=related

[snowball]

Here, the act of blocking a road, setting a bonfire and hosing down a bunch of cops, would be considered riotous. There would also be charges of misuse of public safety property, and whatever else they could tack on.