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Poetic Terrorism

The first idea that I have for my PT is go into a building that has a large public restroom. (Theater, restaurant, etc) Take out all the available rolls of toilet paper and pile them up in a corner of the restroom, preferably farthest from the stalls. Place a Post-it where all the toilet papers used to be and on the post-it it will say "Show some sympathy to the tree you killed. Take Action."

Of course the person would eventually have to get up and grab the toilet paper, but it will give the person who experienced it a response of multiple emotions. Anger, frustration, confusion, then hopefully consideration and compromise. Maybe there will be a cause and effect or maybe there won't be. It will all depend who experiences this Poetic Terrorism.

The second idea I have for my PT is go into a public library where there are computers. Disable the cords to the mouse and the keyboards by cutting them and stick a note on the computer screen that says "Are you completely hopeless now?"

This will give a response in the beginning that the hardware is not working. What is the next step? Will people give up and not accomplish what they were planning to do? Or will they take some measures to find other avenues or figure out that there should be a back up plan. What I want to get across with this message is that, do people rely on so many things that make things more convenient? If so, how much do they rely on it. The general outcome of this should be that people should expect the unexpected more often.

Posted by Suzanne Nguyen on September 26, 2007 2:44 PM |

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Andy Cox:

Interesting ideas. The motives are noble, but I'm not sure that inconveniencing ordinary people is the best way to make a point.

Now, if the toilets were in a big logging company, or the computers in a military facility that would be different!

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