Some time ago I wrote about cereal maker General Mills coming out in support of same sex marriage. Their policy resulted in a protest demonstration in front of their corporate offices, where people were asked to empty their kitchens of all their GM foodstuffs and bring them to the protest site, where it would be collected and donated to food banks and shelters.
I said at the time that this seemed like a confusing message and now former Christian radio preacher Michael Leisner thought that a more unambiguous protest would be to set a bowl of Cheerios on fire in front of the GM offices.
And there was much merriment in the land.
What is interesting to me is that the video in the above link seems to have been taken and posted by people accompanying Leisner, one of them being his son. Even though he does not come out well, they must have figured that it was too funny not to share.
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Chiroptera
August 7, 2012 at 6:02 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Wow, that stuff burns pretty well.
Or is it the stupid they soaked it in ahead of time?
Frank
August 7, 2012 at 6:07 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Awesome. Just awesome.
Based on the speed of the flames’ spread, I assume he used some sort of accelerant. Wouldn’t calibrating the right amount be the sort of detail to work out in advance? And picking a day with less wind might have been a good idea.
The moment when he bends down to blow into the bowl is priceless.
Peter N
August 7, 2012 at 6:35 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I was so hoping to see his pants catch on fire.
Kate from Iowa
August 7, 2012 at 7:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m just hoping there actually was an accelerant. Non boozeahol-based foods should not be that flammable.
christophburschka
August 7, 2012 at 11:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Can’t have people thinking there is any shred of decency in you, after all.
Dalillama, Schmott Guy
August 7, 2012 at 11:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They’re very dry, and also I suspect that the plastic bag caught too.
astro
August 8, 2012 at 9:59 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I liked the pink shirt. And the way he minced around was right in the pocket in how the antis stereotype gays. I’m often assumed to be gay because of the kind of ‘feminine’ way I move. So, I get it…
Who Knows?
August 8, 2012 at 11:33 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The way the box lit before any Cheerios came out and the way it flared up when he did pour some out, there had to be some kind of accelerant in there.
But his unshaven, unkempt appearance fits my idea of how someone who would do this kind of thing would look like. In spite of his pink shirt. What a loser.
stonyground
August 8, 2012 at 3:53 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That really is a great way to make your point, make a complete fool of yourself in front of the entire planet. In particular you can provide free rib-tickling entertainment for all the people who disagree with you. Oh yes, just so that you know, in the long run you are going to lose this argument for one very simple reason. That you are wrong.
General Mills must be quaking in their boots now, in a week or two they could be facing bankrupcy.
Mike Cotter
August 8, 2012 at 9:23 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Mmmm, they’re toasted.
left0ver1under
August 8, 2012 at 9:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hmm…attempted arson, damaging private property. There’s a good case for arrest here. And we know the perpetrator’s face and car.