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		<title>Man Uses Occupy Wall Street&#8217;s Human Microphone to Propose to Girlfriend [Video]</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:54:48 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_191942" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/occupymyheart.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-191942" title="occupymyheart" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/occupymyheart.jpg?w=300&h=235" alt="" width="300" height="235" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Honey, are those tears of joy or from being Maced?</p></div></p>
<p>Finally, a love connection is made at Zuccotti Park! Bushwick resident <strong>Brian Douglas</strong> managed to turn Saturday's protest into his own form of a viral wedding proposal called "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KzMT2u0nlE&amp;feature=player_embedded">Occupy My Heart</a>." See, <a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/10/the-ten-best-craigslist-pick-up-ads-for-occupy-wall-street/">OWS Craigslisters</a>? Buck up: there's still hope for you yet.<br />
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<p><em>The New York Post</em> first alerted us to this story by burying a couple sentences about it in today's piece <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/occupy_eyeing_lincoln_center_mEbR5mlJy6b5Nxgdj31YxJ">"Occupy Eyeing Lincoln Center</a>":</p>
<blockquote><p>Brian Douglas, 33, of Bushwick, Brooklyn, seized the break in the action to drop to one knee and propose to gal pal Deb Szczepkowski, 32, in front of a crowd of about 50 people in Zuccotti Park.<br />
Using a “mike-check” moment -- where the crowd repeats a speaker’s statement so everyone can hear -- Douglas asked for her hand.<br />
“Using these people that I believe in and love to help me ask you to marry me, I don’t know what’s going to happen to this movement, but I hope it’s half as successful as I know our marriage will be,” Douglas said.<br />
He then said -- and the crowd repeated -- “Will you occupy the rest of my life?”<br />
His girlfriend accepted.</p></blockquote>
<p>We're pretty sure this is not what you're supposed to use Occupy Wall  Street's "Mike Check!" system for, but hey...at least this guy isn't  doing one of those <a href="http://www.break.com/index/downtown-disney-flash-mob-proposal-2165512">flash mob wedding proposals</a>.</p>
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<p>Finally, a love connection is made at Zuccotti Park! Bushwick resident <strong>Brian Douglas</strong> managed to turn Saturday's protest into his own form of a viral wedding proposal called "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KzMT2u0nlE&amp;feature=player_embedded">Occupy My Heart</a>." See, <a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/10/the-ten-best-craigslist-pick-up-ads-for-occupy-wall-street/">OWS Craigslisters</a>? Buck up: there's still hope for you yet.<br />
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<p><em>The New York Post</em> first alerted us to this story by burying a couple sentences about it in today's piece <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/occupy_eyeing_lincoln_center_mEbR5mlJy6b5Nxgdj31YxJ">"Occupy Eyeing Lincoln Center</a>":</p>
<blockquote><p>Brian Douglas, 33, of Bushwick, Brooklyn, seized the break in the action to drop to one knee and propose to gal pal Deb Szczepkowski, 32, in front of a crowd of about 50 people in Zuccotti Park.<br />
Using a “mike-check” moment -- where the crowd repeats a speaker’s statement so everyone can hear -- Douglas asked for her hand.<br />
“Using these people that I believe in and love to help me ask you to marry me, I don’t know what’s going to happen to this movement, but I hope it’s half as successful as I know our marriage will be,” Douglas said.<br />
He then said -- and the crowd repeated -- “Will you occupy the rest of my life?”<br />
His girlfriend accepted.</p></blockquote>
<p>We're pretty sure this is not what you're supposed to use Occupy Wall  Street's "Mike Check!" system for, but hey...at least this guy isn't  doing one of those <a href="http://www.break.com/index/downtown-disney-flash-mob-proposal-2165512">flash mob wedding proposals</a>.</p>
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