Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
Trevor Mallard, the speaker of New Zealand’s parliament, “ordered his staff to turn on the lawn’s sprinklers to douse” the protesters, the AP reports.
He also ordered them to play old Barry Manilow songs and the 1990s hit “Macarena” on a repeat loop over loudspeakers to annoy them.
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