#KMFace
© TwitterRainforest Action Network employees showing their #KMFace
In 2012, Texas oil giant Kinder Morgan announced plans to triple the size of their Canadian pipeline:
The expansion involves twinning, or building, 610 miles of new pipeline along the existing 715-mile route between Edmonton in Alberta and Burnaby, British Columbia, a suburban community just outside Vancouver.
Many Canadian residents are outraged and have tried to block the expansion, some even chained themselves to fencing around a test site to prevent the company from conducting tests in British Columbia. Kinder Morgan responded by suing protesters and claiming the dirty looks they gave Kinder Morgan employees constitute "assault":
Mr. Kaplan had argued the defendants conspired against Kinder Morgan, employing social media and telephone networks to harm the oil company and pipeline builder Trans Mountain as they seek to nearly triple capacity by expanding a route under Burnaby Mountain.

He entered into evidence photographs of protesters wearing facial expressions he said demonstrate anger and violence.

"One of the things I will argue is that is not only intimidation, but that is actually an assault," he said on Wednesday.
Opponents of the pipeline latched onto this ridiculous legal argument and the "assault" faces went viral under the #KMFace hashtag. Jump below the fold to see some of the reactions.


For more of the hilarious #KMFace photos, including the one below, check out the #KMFace hashtag on Twitter.

gruppy cat
© screenshot from Twitter
Can you imagine if looking at a cop the wrong way constituted assault? Grumpy cat would be in big, big trouble.