A ban on booing has been lifted at Town Hall board meetings in Riverhead, N.Y., but officials warn that only polite booing will be permitted. [Newsday]

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

    I wish they’d allow polite booing at city meetings in my town. As it is we have city officials proposing that they put up a plexiglass wall between themselves and the public gallery, so they can sleep through meetings without being interrupted. 

  • awjt

     Nobody can handle dissent.  And unfortunately, the ones who most need it are the worst at taking it.

    • Brainspore

      Burns: Smithers, are they booing me? 
      Smithers: Uh, no, they’re saying “Boo-urns, Boo-urns”. 

  • That_Anonymous_Coward

    Once again more evidence that if you give people power they get what appears to be brain damage.

  • donovan acree

    I always include a hearty smile and a tip of my top hat when booing.

  • machinestate

    Trying to decide if this kind of booing is polite enough to be acceptable:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlM3CKXJs5k

  • ryuthrowsstuff

    I grew up near there, and if I remember correctly this ban wasn’t particularly useful. Not much booing but plenty of long strange poetry, chanting political slogans, and hucking paper signs. 

  • TheOven

    Polite booing? Isn’t that like politely calling your mother a whore?