Tea bags dumped as 'Tea Party' protest attracts hundreds

With cheers from several hundred people on the John T. Myers Pedestrian Bridge, a couple hundred bags of tea were dumped into the Wabash River from a large box at 1 p.m.

Tea is going in the river

Protester: 'Tea is going in the river'

By MICHAEL MALIK
mmalik@jconline.com

Tax protesters say they intend to dump a crate of tea bags into the Wabash River on Wednesday in protest of excessive government spending -- permission or no permission.

"Tea is going in the river, regardless," said Jared Fagan, one of the Lafayette's Tax Day Tea Party organizers.

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