Climate Camp and the Third Runway
Discussion
Well the hippies have taken to the streets. It just took me over an hour to get a pint of milk and go home, a journey that normally takes 5 minutes. It seems that their peaceful protest involves sitting down in the middle of Sipson Road and singing songs complete with drums and a few guitars. That means that plod have had to cordon off the road which is great if you havent passed their checkpoint before they started but not so good if your stuck waiting to get out 
Every route I took had plod at the end of it.
Some of the girly protesters thought it would be a good idea to climb up the outskirts of a BAA building and change there political stance from 'No Third Runway' to know friggin planes at all
I hope they fall off. And to make matters worse by car just threw a belt as the idler pulley has seized so I will be stuck without the car for a couple of days
Every route I took had plod at the end of it.
Some of the girly protesters thought it would be a good idea to climb up the outskirts of a BAA building and change there political stance from 'No Third Runway' to know friggin planes at all
I hope they fall off. And to make matters worse by car just threw a belt as the idler pulley has seized so I will be stuck without the car for a couple of days
Munter said:
I dont understand why the police have to be involved. If you sit in the road you get hit by cars.... Problem go's away?
Is it illegal to urinate on the road uphill of where they are sitting?
Urinating in the street is a public order offence and the BiB would be happy to take your 80 quid donation. However, pissing in a bucket at home (get the whole family involved) and then pouring it downhill might not be an offence...... Is it illegal to urinate on the road uphill of where they are sitting?
When I was working in manchester a load of anti-war protesters blocked Oxford road. The police were in attendance and as I walked past them I overheard one say to his colleague "We should just let the
ers get run over..." Made me smile 
Munter said:
I dont understand why the police have to be involved. If you sit in the road you get hit by cars.... Problem go's away?
Is it illegal to urinate on the road uphill of where they are sitting?
so they can watch and laugh when soap dodger gets beaten up, Is it illegal to urinate on the road uphill of where they are sitting?
But seriously what difference is this to say protesting agaist the ID card stuff or speed cams ?
mybrainhurts said:
MilnerR said:
Urinating in the street is a public order offence and the BiB would be happy to take your 80 quid donation.
Obstructing the highway is also an offence. Why aren't they getting nicked...?Edited by robwales on Sunday 19th August 16:08
I think they are playing the softly softly approach. They could easily fly in and round them up; after all there is more than enough police there to do so (and that is literally hundreds I have passed).
If the headlines read "Police raided peacefull demonstration" then they would be the baddies and other than the fact they delayed my journey its not the end of the world nor causing too much disruption on a Sunday.
What are the protesters going to do when they have finished sitting in the road singing? Go home and call it a success I would imagine
Bloody madness that's what it is.
If the headlines read "Police raided peacefull demonstration" then they would be the baddies and other than the fact they delayed my journey its not the end of the world nor causing too much disruption on a Sunday.
What are the protesters going to do when they have finished sitting in the road singing? Go home and call it a success I would imagine
Bloody madness that's what it is.
Ok , now I know theres a law against revving your engine unnecessarily..but should I be out in the TVR and caught up in this it would be very tempting to ask BiB if I could turn around and sit in the traffic with my pipes facing the protesters. A few minutes of 121db in the face might prompt some action. If nothing else it would show them that not all of us care about the size of our carbon footprint
mat205125 said:
Why do the police not just roll in half a dozen meat wagons, and arrest all of the people sat on the road. Surely some law must be being breached. Public order offence maybe? Antisocial behaviour?
Quite right too.It will also be judged in a similar manner, after protestors get out of hand when GATSOs are made more sohisticated and "they" have governors fitted to cars recording speeds and your location.
A bit of balance called for perhaps??
Marf said:
[Funda-lentalist]
5 Minutes, you should have been walking, think of the planet!!
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1) Someone calculated the CO2 emissions are greater to produce the food required for calories for walking, than for driving the equivalent distance.5 Minutes, you should have been walking, think of the planet!!
[/Funda-lentalist]
2) If the lentilists gave a damn, they'd want free-flowing clean traffic - not cars running their engines at idle for an hour.
This "Make Planes History" thing isn't new actually. When I lifted the lino in my last house I found beneath it a load of newspapers from 1937 (The Daily Express, when it was still a respectable paper). Anyway, among the articles was one about what seemed a fairly well established campaign to ban aircraft altogether, although this was on the basis of their ability to drop bombs and destroy whole cities rather than any pollution problem.
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