This is just sadly pathetic:

NEW YORK - Georgi Page was one lonely protester, standing out there on Eleventh Avenue all by herself. She'd come to the Potamkin Hummer dealership expecting to join a crowd of committed environmentalists in a protest against the gas-guzzling ravages of SUVs. Instead, she found a crowd of two dozen news reporters, 40 police officers and three private security guards.

Page was the only one who showed up for Tuesday's demo, and she felt stupid, she said, in the cardboard costume she'd made by painting a box like the front end of an SUV, with the word "Bummer" neatly printed across the grille.

"It really feels like there should be more people here," said Page, a 34-year-old Web producer from Harlem.

It seemed the protest was over before it had begun, and Page was disappointed, she reflected on Wednesday.

That part of the story alone is funny. I can just see one lonely protester at a Hummer dealership with her homemade attempt at a cardboard SUV. When you show up wearing something like that, and you're the only one around, you just look like an idiot. But the story gets funnier...

But then a policeman stepped up and told her she was obstructing pedestrian traffic.

"You are not going to arrest me," Page responded, but he did. And as she choked back tears, her wrists were gathered into plastic cuffs and she was hustled into a police van.

When thousands of protesters are blocking traffic, it's hard for the cops to get them all. But if it's just one protester, and there are forty cops, chances are, you're going to jail.

UPDATE: The link to the story was pulling up something different, so I updated the link.