update on WTO

Just an update on those brave Korean swimmers from the Guardian:

"But the Koreans used more humour than violence. Once they reached the protesters' containment zone, separated from the centre by a 100m stretch of water, they used protest flags as the walls for makeshift changing rooms, stripped off and donned their luminous lifejackets.

"My wife would kill me if she could see me," said one member of the Korean Peasants League. "I have no pants."

One after another they leapt off the 2m concrete embankment, plunged into the cold, polluted water, and then gasped chants: "Down, down WTO! Down, down USA!"
The foul water took its toll. Several of the older farmers had to be taken to hospital. Their condition is unknown. But these appear to have been the only casualties. Police used pepper spray on a crowd of several dozen protesters, but there were no reports of injuries."

Apparently, there hasn't been a riot in Hong Kong for about 40 years which might also explain the apparent cluelessness of the police in dealing with the possibility of violence.