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How To Break The Kettle: An Illustrated Scientific Guide – UK Indymedia
FIG 1 (caption: a picture of police standing in a line. There are red dots representing protesters with arrows showing them pressing against the police line evenly. The text on the image says “Breaking the line: Equal Force – No Good!”)
FIG 2 (
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similar to figure 1, except this time there is a line between the crowd and police representing a barrier being used to press against the police line. The barrier is also distributing force against the whole line, but more evenly than in fig 1. The text reads “Breaking the line with barrier: Equal Force – No Good!”)
FIG3 (
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Similar to the last two images but this time the force of the whole group of protesters is focused in a wedge at the center of the police line. The Text says “Breaking the line with wedge: Tactical Force – Good!”)
FIG 4 (
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Similar to the last three images but this time the protesters are forcing their way through at the sides of the line, which are labeled with new text stating simply “Weak point”. The title text now says “Breaking the Line: Weak Points. Tactical Force – Good!”)
Sometimes life present us with a problem that we cannot solve without the use of a classic piece of scientific thinking. In today’s puzzle, we are trapped in a kettle, surrounded by police officers and we want to get out of it. We have tried shouting en masse ‘let us go!’ but this has not worked for us. Next we need to do some collective thinking and put a new plan in effect.
The first thing we should do is look for which police line seems the weakest and with the best chance of escape should we break the line. This may be a line of normal cops without riot gear and usually only one officer deep. Here how the work might proceed.
In Fig 1 we see the crowd attempt to break the police line by using opposing force. This can sometimes work but usually the police can brace themselves and hold each other and thus hold the line. In this way, the strength of the crowds’ force is lessened and absorbed by the police line.
In Fig 2 we the crowd attempt to get technical and use a banner or metal barrier to push the police. The same dynamic occurs again and the crowds’ force is lessened and absorbed by the police line.
In Fig 3, the crowd has decided to form a wedge shape to drive a gap in the police line and follow though, the thickness of the crowd opening more and more of the police line up.
In Fig 4, the crowd knows that the police line weak points are at the extreme ends of the line as the final policeperson has no brace or support. The crowd attempts two pushes on the line at the weak points.
