Thursday, January 1, 2009

The Grapes of Wrath and the Foie Gras of Revolution

The "revolution" has found a new tactic: filling grocery carts with smoked salmon and foie gras, blocking the checkouts, and forcing the store management to let the "militants" depart with the loot without paying or risk losing the rest of the day's business. Yesterday it was the Monoprix on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris, but the "movement" isn't confined to the capital. A harbinger of things to come?

ADDENDUM: A lengthy legal analysis here.

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