Me and another mate were trapped on Gloucester Road and -- surrounded by at least 500 policemen -- got bungled into a cordoned off area in the middle of Gloucester Road with the friendly Koreans and more sorry press until 5am on Saturday morning. We played football, cooked noodles in the middle of the road, built make-shift toilets for the females, mocked the happy-childhood deprived police, and even joined in with a huge spontaneous carnival-like rave/parade at 1 in the morning to warm everyone up.No snaps of the rave/parade party, but here are Billy's photos.
Meanwhile, the hundreds of police surrounding us wearily looked on as others slept or ate, like soldiers in a trench. Then -- loaded up on Maxims-delivered lunchboxes -- at 4am the police started closing in and rounding protesters up which caused a lot of havoc as people screamed and struggled. However by 6am all 900 were arrested and me and my friend were finally let free with a check of our id's. Hong Kong is often surreal but this was beyond anything dreamlike.
Thanks, Billy!
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