- Nigel O’Sullivan: Mrs. Williams, what are you doing there?
- Ye Thuza: I’m removing the child safety brakes from this roundabout.
- Nigel O’Sullivan: I’m pretty sure this is illegal.
- Ye Thuza: No taxation without acceleration!
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[0641] Roundabout III
└ posted on Thursday, 11 December 2014, by Novil
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He’s only pretty sure?
For his sake, I hope he doesn’t try to interfere with her operations.
I was expecting a jet engine added to one side.
not to be that guy…. but I’m pretty certain it’s “brakes” here.
However, on to the main point : that face though :3
And….cue MacGyver theme….
For some reason, I’m half expecting a classic western showdown in the next page between Ye Thuza and… *looks at the tags* Sheriff O’Sullivan.
Have the right to play with death.
Rules are made to be broken. Especially very stupid, annoying, useless ones. Nobody likes those ones.
No taxation without acceleration needs to be on a flag… or a tshirt or something ;p
Well, officer, would you have preferred her to try the OBVIOUSLY illegal method or this? Seriously, it’s like they WANT you to disobey.
I require more Michelle/Zoey comics!
“No taxation without acceleration” sounds like the motto of a bunch of kids with tuner cars that get mad when their pulled over for going 90 in a 45.
If she wants a roundabout that hasn’t got safety breaks it would be more prudent to make one for her backyard instead of defacing public property.
I’m pretty impressed with the way Nigel’s handling the situation, actually. He seems like a pretty cool guy, even though he and Ye Thurza work on opposite ends of the (loosely defined) “Good” alignment, him Law and her Chaos. (Because that’d be their respective alignments: Lawful Good and Chaotic Good, him sworn to uphold the law and her doing the right thing regardless of the law with bitter experiences attached to it.)
From the look on his face, I almost think he’s trying to figure out why she wants to remove the children’s safety anything when she’s got two kids.
Bree wrote:
Be careful with character alignments. They’re very deceptive, they shape how you think.
Notice that he’s holding a doughnut. The next thing that I expect is that ye thuza might be shoving it down his throat to gag him so that she could finish “fixing” the roundabout. Otherwise, Yuna may or may not just walk in on them.
Do not arrest her, officer! You do not want this to go to the next level…
Larisa: *concentrates hard* Ooookay… that’s as far as I think I can change things… angular momentum is now equal to the square root of the angular velocity times the inertia, and the required centripetal force is now just mass times velocity over radius. Oh, and friction is now proportional to the price of tea in China, and the circumference is now about 5π radians or 900 degrees… you should be able to fit more people on there, at least! 😉
>:=)>
I would not want that guy’s job.
“She’s breaking the law. But it’s a useless law that makes everyone miserable. But she’s going about it illegally. But her vigilantism usually keeps this neighborhood in line.”
The only reasonable solution is to buy the Williams family their own, private roundabout.
jmg wrote:
I sense merchandise coming on!
Why do I think the police officer knows Ye Thuza’s history and is trying to avoid causing (more) trouble with her?
@ Stuff’n’things:
I like the way you think. But better add one on the other side for stability.
@ Stuff’n’things:
As a person that’s played Kerbal Space Program, I can tell you that is a bad idea. Now two rockets is another story!
I wonder if this is the cop that arrested Sydney for assaulting her mugger?
http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/416
Let’s see. Where was the publicly debated bill to place these restraints on the playground equipment?
A police officer only ‘thinks’ something is illegal should not try enforcing those ‘possibilities’ He checks with his watch commander and/or a lawyer to be sure. Then enforces the law.
Also noticing the see saws have landing springs on them and the playground is empty except for the mother trying to return fun to the activities.
Fight the power! Fight the system!
I kinda want her to just respond with “I dare you to try and arrest me.” And then he just kinda looks scared and backs away slowly.
Aww what she wouldn’t do for her baby’s happiness 😀
I wish she was my mommy.
‘Oh it’s legal.’
‘How?”
‘Here’s the signed amendment from the mayor, and Here’s the petition of almost the whole community wanting them off. I’m working on the rest of the stuff after this.’
Although I was hoping for someone else to save the day (Yuna could do it, at least with help), it will be nice to see how Ye Thuza takes care of this (It won’t be force, she may be able to knock down an old sheriff a foot away, but she does not have the arms and forces to fend of a government).
Am I the only one concerned that this cop knows Ye Thuza by name?
@ Strife:
Check his tag, this is not the first time they’ve meet in this comic.
@ JIndra34:
Well, he plays golf with her, knows that she lets her kids watch violent movies like kickass, trains them to fight (with a high degree of discipline), and as the local law enforcement, is likely familiar with her criminal record. And yes, Thuza probably has one, mostly with ‘minor disturbances’ but is otherwise considered a good citizen.
…Sorry, Ye Thuza, I’m with Nigel on this.
The US is a democracy. The rules mean that sometimes, you have to put up with other people’s stupid shit, and vice-versa. If YOU start breaking laws you don’t like, what’s to stop others from breaking the laws you approve of?
@ sun tzu:
Acceleration?
Anyway, it’s a been there – done that situation. If some individual crosses her path, they go poof. If a group of individuals does it, she’d probably systematically destroy them before they recognize her as THE threat.
@ Greenwood Goat:
I just want you to know, that you are bad at math.
Ashlyn S. Hibbs wrote:
I concur. I used to dislike Zoey, but now I think she is pretty cool, I want to see how things change in their relationship now.
@ Stuff’n’things:
As any KSP player worth his salt knows, the solution is always MORE BOOSTERS!
In the last panel, Ye Thuza looks like workers from socialist posters.
She really should just buy her own playground equipment instead of endangering everyone else’s kids too. At least then she’d be the one libel for the lawsuits if someone split their head open. Ah well, at least this way the kid from the other day won’t be orphaned.
She’ll fix the roundabout.
The speed’ll turn you inside out.
You’ll play the day your way.
Call it morning spinning through the park and
All around the playground
I love the non-chalant way she answered his question with that weary-but-working look on her face. XD
No, Ye Thuza. That’s kinda not okay.
You and Yuna could have your fun, sure, but those things in real life are pretty damn dangerous. What you’re doing there can in fact injure a child who takes things too far.
@ Dervalanana:
He fixed it.
Well, that’s one approach. I would have attempted to cheer the child up by suggesting a trip in search of somewhere less regulated and less restricted, where they definitely don’t have excessive safety features … like Mount Whitney, Mount Elbert, Fanxipan, the firing range at Cu Chi, the Labrador Coast, Ecuador, …
She’s a rebel, with a cause!
El Rodrigo wrote:
I agree with you since there’s a sign saying the equipment fulfills safety rules. Other than that however, I highly doubt the safety brakes actually makes things safer.
In a short term, by braking the Merry go Round and taking similar safety measurements on other equipment that allows a child to experience speed, you will stop a lot of accidents from happening. However, in long term, you’re impairing their balance growth and likely also causing a negative psychological effect. These negative effects are likely minor, but with millions of children, there will be a lot of cases where a minor difference is the difference between something going horrible bad and the bad thing not happening.
There are safety measurements that should be taken, such as having sand below the equipment and designing the equipment such that if a child falls of, she/he is very unlikely to land on anything else than sand. However, from what I’ve read, the US standard seems to be limiting the peripheral speed of the Merry go Round to 13 feet per second. This is a ridiculously low speed. When thinking of Merry go Rounds I’ve known as child and estimating the number of rotations per second they could have done had they been limited to 13 feet per second, I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s no way I could have enjoyed them.
Crystalgate wrote:
This. There’s a difference between safety and ‘safety’. Safety that keeps children from killing themselves is good. ‘Safety’ that prevents children from so much as getting a scraped knee and also severely limits their opportunities to have fun is not.
@ Horerczy:
Where’s the fun in that?
The Man is always trying to slow us down!
Power to the people!
Freedom!
That is: Freedom to spin until you barf!
Crystalgate wrote:
While I’d like to agree with you, limiting speed is far safer than coating the area with sand. Even if the sand is soft there is still a sudden stop to contend with should one fall off of one of these devices at high speeds.
Mitigating speed us also cheaper as the roundabouts I’m familiar with use a large hard rubber ring that only slowed the device down if weight was applied. There was still sand around the devices but not as much as would be used for an unregulated roundabout.
Of course the main reason to usesuch a device is to avoid lawsuits from parents whom refuse to accept responsibility when their child I’d injured.
The main issue here is parents who can’t be bothered to take responsibility for their own children and want everyone else’s to do their job for them. You don’t want your special little snowflake on the merry-go-round, that’s your business and between you and your kid. But you don’t get to say nobody can use the thing (or lame it to the point no one will want to) because you’re too busy texting or whatever other nonsense you do to actually be a parent.
Being a parent is hard work, you don’t want to deal with the bother, don’t have a kid. But don’t expect the rest of the world to do your job for you!
Ye Thuza clearly gets it.