Thrilla Thursday
I'm going to try to make sure my afternoon walk coincides with at least some of this action.
Atlanta police were on high alert as business and political leaders from around the world gathered Thursday for the Business of the Americas conference at the Georgia World Congress Center.
I'll report back, although it's doubtful that I'll take my embarrassingly cheezy digital camera along.
No, this will be a lo-tech venture. Feel free to send me money if you want me to buy a good digital camera, you skinflints.
I promise to at least provide a crowd size estimate, a count of giant puppets, and some of the more memorable protest signs on display.
Update: 0, 0, and nothing. There was a bit of enhanced security at some buildings, forelorn (and hot)-looking security guards posted outside the places of business, but absolutely no indication that anything at all was going on otherwise - except for a black helicopter that was buzzing around downtown but which never seemed to lead us to any flash points.
We did encounter one building, a school, that was closed today and tomorrow "due to activity surrounding" the meeting. The sheepish guy at the school door said it was because they expected "lots of traffic."
Maybe tomorrow.