I had a strange situation at work yesterday. An employee came to my office and told me that two guys were in our parking lot harassing employees and truckers as they were trying to drive into our lot.
I went outside and see these two guys out in the street filming our plant. I walked up to them and asked what they were doing and the guy immediately pulled out pepper spray and stated he would pepper spray me if I came any closer. I told him to back the $%$# up and get off our property.
The guy proceeded to call names and claim he was attacked. I called the police and while I was on the phone with the police, this thug also called the police and claimed I tried to break his camera (that didn't happen, and we have 175 cameras on our property which prove that).
The police came and questioned these guys and they said they were exercising their free speech and auditing the world. They also started yelling at the cops and were saying things like "why are you being so rude piggy" and "this is ADA property so we don't have to leave".
After speaking with the cops, I suggested we just go inside, cops leave, and we don't give these guys any more attention. After this, I watched them on camera proceed to the plant down the block.
Today, I see that they posted the video on YouTube and their channel is Kern County Transparency. They have hundreds of videos harassing private businesses and over 72k followers. It looks to me like they are trying to incite violence to maybe get a "payday" when they can provoke someone into doing something bad.
It would be interesting to see how I could "dress up" their photos and maybe send them a framed picture - if I could ever find out their address.
