Thread:User talk:Reckless Noise Symphony/Information please/reply (10)

Ah the good old days - when I was at Wits Uni in the last 80s, it wasn't a good week unless the security police were there at least once, breaking up a protest (usually anti-apartheid, or End Conscription Campaign). The best fun was when they didn't read the wind properly and ended up downwind of their own teargas.

The best fun was if they brought in the Purple People Eater - water cannon filled with purple dye. You got hit with that and you were lying low for a few days, scrubbing frantically, to get that off - because if they saw anybody with purple skin on the streets for days afterwards, you'd be arrested.