(For the full story of our adventures with OSA LA, click here.)
On Thursday, we scoped out the Big Blue Behemoth complex, and played tag with
security bike kids.
We also visited Quack Alley, the all-vitamin-and-chiropractor minimall right beside Big
Blue on Edgemont, where you can buy Theta Power powdered goop from Peter Gilham.
On Friday, we returned to the Evil Empire to hand out flyers with excerps from the affidavit in the McPherson indictments.
This bike cop followed us, collecting flyers we'd handed out to unsuspecting publics. After a few rounds, we decided not to waste any more flyers on him - hey, OSA can pay for its own copies! So we decided to head north, to Hollywood and Ivar, where OSA HQ perches atop the LRH Life Exhibit. VideoBoy followed us, as seen below.
Unfortunately, our pics from the Life Exhibit flyering mysteriously failed to develop properly, so we don't have a good picture of the thug - who we christened 'Thug B', but we do have a picture of the van he was driving that tailed us - the following day! (For more details, read our post.)
Check out the licence plate - This Driver is a Known OSA Stalker!
One of the fellows who tried to handle us at the LRH Life Exibit was Craig Brown, who says he's the 'founder' of the Friends of Religious Liberty, a group of OSA publics and unsuspecting rank and file scientologists who have been coerced into holding ill-fated and often hilarious pickets at the homes of so-called 'bigots' - read: critics of the Church of Scientology.
On Sunday, Craig popped up at the airport to give me my very own going away picket. He brought his friends, D. Paul (who we'd met at the LRH Exhibit) and 'Jeff', who didn't want his picture taken at all, and kept holding his sign in front of his face. All in all, it was a fitting ending to a wonderfully weird vacation in LA.
Remember, for the full story, you gotta read our post. Really. But pictures do add that extra oomph, don't they?
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