S.Korea Farmers Clash with Riot Police over Rice

Rice...it's not just for weddings anymore.

Thousands of South Korean farmers clashed with police on Tuesday in the capital, Seoul, to demand the withdrawal of a bill to open up the country's rice market on the eve of a major economic summit in the port city of Pusan. I have no idea what this means, all I know is that lately people will riot over anything. Rioting is the new in-thing. It used to be cell-phones and IPods. Now, you're just not one of the cool kids unless your tossing a firebomb at a human wall of police in riot gear or flipping a burning car over.

The farmers, many wielding steel pipes and bamboo sticks, were stopped just short of the assembly and entered in a tense standoff with police, who used water cannons to subdue the farmers and break up the protest. A tense standoff ended by a watergun fight. I am going back to bed. This world is getting scarier by the minute.

70 farmers and 10 policemen were taken to hospital after the bloody clash. Those sure are some powerful water cannons. Might want to take the water pressure down a notch or two.