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An email pointed me to this:<br><br><br><br><span style="font-size:xx-small;"><br><br>
A pair of incendiary devices--milk jugs filled with flammable liquid--shut down the McDonald's restaurant on Mangrove Avenue for several hours Monday and drew a horde of reporters, police and federal investigators to the scene, where the perpetrators had spray painted "Meat is murder" and other animal-rights slogans on the property.<br><br>
The devices, found by an employee earlier that morning, were dismantled by bomb experts from the Butte County Sheriff's Office.<br><br>
A note claiming responsibility for the devices was left at a payphone at the scene, and another note was dropped through the mail slot here at the offices of the Chico News & Review. The typed note, attributed to the activist group Animal Liberation Front, states that McDonald's was targeted "because of their prevalent connection to the factory farming industry" and goes on to say that "the specieist attitude of the meat eating society also needs to stop</span><br><br><br><br>
The rest (with picture) can be found here: <a href="http://www.directaction.info/news_mar6_03.htm" target="_blank">http://www.directaction.info/news_mar6_03.htm</a><br><br><br><br>
action took place on 03-06-03
A pair of incendiary devices--milk jugs filled with flammable liquid--shut down the McDonald's restaurant on Mangrove Avenue for several hours Monday and drew a horde of reporters, police and federal investigators to the scene, where the perpetrators had spray painted "Meat is murder" and other animal-rights slogans on the property.<br><br>
The devices, found by an employee earlier that morning, were dismantled by bomb experts from the Butte County Sheriff's Office.<br><br>
A note claiming responsibility for the devices was left at a payphone at the scene, and another note was dropped through the mail slot here at the offices of the Chico News & Review. The typed note, attributed to the activist group Animal Liberation Front, states that McDonald's was targeted "because of their prevalent connection to the factory farming industry" and goes on to say that "the specieist attitude of the meat eating society also needs to stop</span><br><br><br><br>
The rest (with picture) can be found here: <a href="http://www.directaction.info/news_mar6_03.htm" target="_blank">http://www.directaction.info/news_mar6_03.htm</a><br><br><br><br>
action took place on 03-06-03