VALPARAISO, Ind. -- High gasoline prices are apparently leading to some strange behavior besides the usual uptick in driveoffs, consumer gripes, email frustration and political outrage. A Valparaiso, Ind., man climbed atop a convenience store with a guitar and megaphone to sing a song protesting high gasoline prices, reported the Associated Press. Supporters chanted "I can't afford it. I'm banging on my dashboard. I can't believe they think I'm a fool" as Jay Weinberg sang the song, "Price Gouge'n."
Valparaiso police halted the impromptu 15-minute concert at a Family Express convenience [image-nocss] store and gas station and took Weinberg to jail. The police arrested Weinberg on charges of criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct. Some of the listeners, including his wife, Danielle, drove to Porter County Jail to bail him out.
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Meanwhile, on a much darker note, Tennessee police said that they were searching for a person or persons who left a dead deer with a sign protesting high fuel prices at a gas station in Cheatham County near Nashville. The sign read: "Lower gas prices. Humans are taking it out on us."
Cheatham County Sheriff John Holder said the pregnant doe was tied to a post at the bottom of the gas price sign, according to the NBC report.
Detectives and officials with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency are investigating. Whoever is responsible could face animal cruelty charges. The gas station does not have surveillance cameras outside the store.
Officials said it is possible that the deer could be road kill. Holder said that however it died, tying it up and moving it to the gas station was the act of more than one person.
Station owner Moe Patel said, "My wife and I, we're both dumbfounded. It doesn't make sense."
And recently, Rocky Twyman, a choir director from Washington, D.C., went to San Francisco to stage a pray-in at a Chevron station over high gasoline prices. He also called on churchgoers to ask for God's intervention where he said politicians have failed.Click here for complete coverage.
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