13 guys with beards got into trouble? The last time that happened, Leonardo da Vinci got a painting out of it.

Typical cop overreaction. Did they not see the cameras? I'm surprised the actors weren't all murdered.

I wonder how the Grimm people get away with it.

So instead of, gee, i don't fucking know - maybe TALKING with whom ever was in charge... the Portland Gestapo response to an otherwise harmless photo shoot was a locked and load SWAT force pointing their fucking guns at everyone in sight?! Yeah, clearly these pigs have not learned a damned thing! And no mention in this article on whether or not the alleged gun - which was clearly a prop - had even been loaded.

Who even still says we DON'T live in an occupied gestapo police-state is a fucking rube!

And the dipshit who NARC'd on this shoot can go jump off that very bridge! Fucking snitch!!!

No, the person who brought the assault rifle and the other people who didn't stop him from waiving it around on the bridge are the idiots here. Sorting out why some idiots are waiving assault rifles on a bridge is what cops are for, and what kind of explanation is, "oh, it's for a beards for breasts fundraiser?"

"It was so ironic that like literally a SWAT team shows up to our breast cancer fundraiser," said the idiot who apparently grasps neither irony nor common sense.

IT WAS ALMOST AS IRONIC AS MY BEARD AND BRO-TANK.

"Beards for Breasts"?

See, people think it's all fun and games, but as this episode shows, when amateurs do marketing things can turn deadly.

Are you kidding me? It's not police overreaction: IT'S A GUY WALKING AROUND WITH A FUCKING ASSAULT RIFFLE.

Congrats on wasting far more money than you're going to collect. Charity!

Oh, the irony? Maybe? What a bunch of geniuses!

Very nearly the winner of this year's Darwin Award.

And another reason why there should be an IQ test required for owning a gun.

(BTW, Todd up top for comment of the decade)

Maybe he was from Florida or Texas? That would be perfectly normal behavior there.

I THINK THE POLICE RESPONSE WAS ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE, HOWEVER... ACTUALLY CHARGING THEM WITH A BULLSHIT CHARGE IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY THE SERT UNIT BEING DEPLOYED? FUCK THAT.

Beards can't grow in space.

That worked totally opposite of this:

http://jldunn.blog.com/

Though, there was also an "assault rifle" and it was near Burnside. Huh?

If you listen to the 911 call, it's very evident that what those guys were doing would have easily been mistaken as a couple of lunatics headed downtown to do a mass killing. If they were professionals working on a PR campaign of any kind they would have had a permit for the shoot (assuming it was going to be on public property), and the police would have been notified well in advance. Something like this probably would have required at least one officer to be on site as well, just to keep the public informed. These guys were not very bright, even if they were working for a good cause.

Clearly, most of you people don't at all mind living under the boot of tyranny. Read 1984 lately?

Just wanted to note that I changed the "Beards for Breasts" link on this post today. Turns out this wasn't a fundraiser for the national group I linked, but ANOTHER Beards for Breasts group: http://www.stayclassy.org/fundraise?is_new…