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Cop Brings Gun, Pink Marshmallow Fluff to a Snowball Fight
Every year, The Washington Post holds a heavily-anticipated contest about Peeps, the marshmallow Easter treat everyone loves to hate. The idea is to build a Peep-based diorama of a memorable event or scene.
This year, one of the semi-finalists depicted a scene familiar to Reason readers:
Look familiar?:
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¢|4.2.10 @ 1:32PM|#
They don't make white peeps?
|4.2.10 @ 2:11PM|#
A white Peep is just a funny-shaped stale marshmallow.
|4.2.10 @ 2:41PM|#
Like Franklin said, it ain't easy being white.
anarch|4.2.10 @ 1:33PM|#
peep = perp
|4.2.10 @ 1:33PM|#
RACIST!
sage|4.2.10 @ 1:33PM|#
Those peeps are racist.
Man I'm gettin' smacked down in front o' my peeps? Yo' ass is phuckin crazy!
Colonel_Angus|4.2.10 @ 3:04PM|#
If more people carried guns, maybe there would be fewer hipster criminals assaulting people with snow and ice.
DC Cop|4.2.10 @ 3:08PM|#
I don't wanna hear a peep outa you!
|4.2.10 @ 3:32PM|#
The snowballers weren't protesting anything, they were just throwing projectiles at uninvolved people's property. And throwing them at those uninvolved people if they stood up to them.
Joe_D|4.2.10 @ 4:05PM|#
I was there. Those fuckers started throwing snowballs at me... I ended up with a black eye, two broken ribs, and permament brian dmage. I demand pancakes!
|4.3.10 @ 12:51PM|#
Fucking Pigs have no sense of humor.