Climate protesters block roads

[WinstonWolf]

colonel c said:

Sooner or later someone will get hurt.

""Normally they tend to stop just before they get to us but this one actually drove straight into us. He hit my leg and drove my knee backwards."

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-ne...

What do they expect?

[jamoor]

I doubt thats the only petrol station in the vicinity

[colonel c]

jamoor said:

I doubt thats the only petrol station in the vicinity

Perhaps he has a loyalty card.

[jamoor]

colonel c said:

jamoor said:

I doubt thats the only petrol station in the vicinity

Perhaps he has a loyalty card.

True but on a scooter you can fogive £8 worth of points on this one occasion.

[otolith]

jamoor said:

I doubt thats the only petrol station in the vicinity

There are a few others on Google Maps, a couple of miles away. Just go out of your way, burn a bit more fuel.

[Baby Shark doo doo doo doo]

Kawasicki said:

Baby Shark doo doo doo doo said:

If one/some of these extremists glue themselves to your car, what’s the law regarding escape from the situation? Are you able to drive away at low speed or would you be required to stop?

I‘d imagine you would have to stop to avoid hurting anyone. If you were in immediate danger and it was your only course of action... then that’s a different situation.

Personally, I‘m a pacifist... I feel sorry for most of them.

Just had a thought. Could glue their feet to the car as well which would make it safer to drive off

[John Locke]

Baby Shark doo doo doo doo said:

If one/some of these extremists glue themselves to your car, what’s the law regarding escape from the situation? Are you able to drive away at low speed or would you be required to stop?

As a defenceless OAP, I would feel threatened with physical violence and be compelled to escape as quickly as possible, heading for a Police station in search of protection.

colonel c said:

Sooner or later someone will get hurt.

""Normally they tend to stop just before they get to us but this one actually drove straight into us. He hit my leg and drove my knee backwards."

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-ne...

It is quite clear from the photographs that one of the idiots is attacking a car and its occupant(s) with a pole of some description, use of the car as a defensive weapon is perfectly justified.

Edited by John Locke on Monday 20th January 17:09

[ninepoint2]

colonel c said:

Sooner or later someone will get hurt.

""Normally they tend to stop just before they get to us but this one actually drove straight into us. He hit my leg and drove my knee backwards."

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-ne...

I guess they would refuse to get in a diesel powered ambulance then. Good luck to them finding a tandem with blues and twos...

[Vanden Saab]

At what point did it become legal to barricade a business and prevent it from operating?

[Lazermilk]

ninepoint2 said:

colonel c said:

Sooner or later someone will get hurt.

""Normally they tend to stop just before they get to us but this one actually drove straight into us. He hit my leg and drove my knee backwards."

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-ne...

I guess they would refuse to get in a diesel powered ambulance then. Good luck to them finding a tandem with blues and twos...

No they seem to operate as 'do as I say, not as I do', they use diesel vehicles to pull boats etc into place, use diesel generators hidden behind wooden pallets (as if that will work) and use all sorts of plastics for their signs etc that are made from petrochemicals.

fking hypocrites

[Yertis]

Vanden Saab said:

At what point did it become legal to barricade a business and prevent it from operating?

I was wondering this... what are the Police playing at here?

[Graveworm]

Yertis said:

I was wondering this... what are the Police playing at here?

They can do something * , I guess they are worried about it escalating and the resources it will take if they "Become water" i.e. This only needs maximum of 3 of you, or are becoming intimidating and you need to stand there, so people can go about their business. Or this can only go on for another 30 minutes. They comply or get arrested with all the resources that ties up, going limp isn't not complying etc.. then just bus off or walk to another place where it starts again.

*.. the senior police officer (in this case highest ranking officer at the scene which could be a PC) , having regard to the time or place at which and the circumstances in which any public assembly is being held... reasonably believes that—
... the purpose of the persons organising it is the intimidation of others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do, or to do an act they have a right not to do,
... may give directions imposing on the persons organising or taking part in the assembly such conditions as to the place at which the assembly may be (or continue to be) held, its maximum duration, or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it, as appear to him necessary to prevent such disorder, damage, disruption or intimidation.

Edited by Graveworm on Tuesday 21st January 12:12

[Pan Pan Pan]

Lazermilk said:

ninepoint2 said:

colonel c said:

Sooner or later someone will get hurt.

""Normally they tend to stop just before they get to us but this one actually drove straight into us. He hit my leg and drove my knee backwards."

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-ne...

I guess they would refuse to get in a diesel powered ambulance then. Good luck to them finding a tandem with blues and twos...

No they seem to operate as 'do as I say, not as I do', they use diesel vehicles to pull boats etc into place, use diesel generators hidden behind wooden pallets (as if that will work) and use all sorts of plastics for their signs etc that are made from petrochemicals.

fking hypocrites

Yup! Only when each of them has used the His n Hers `Save the planet' kit, described earlier here, could any of them be described as being anything but hypocrites.

[Europa1]

jamoor said:

I doubt thats the only petrol station in the vicinity

Actually, it is. There are others around, but they're on the edge of town and involve sitting in Cambridge's lousy traffic to get to.

[Europa1]

colonel c said:

Sooner or later someone will get hurt.

"
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-ne...

One of the founders of Extinction Rebellion has publicly stated "People may die" for the movement to achieve its aims.

[Not-The-Messiah]

turbobloke said:

motco said:

Ok, so it's nuts!

A carbon neutral world by 2050 is nuts, by 2030 or the 12-year deadline before we fry in our own juices (!) i.e. 2032 it's not even a funny joke.

A small country like the UK may manage to get close around 2050 by means of renewables max, and planting zillions of trees. The books will need cooking by a skilled chef to get to zero, and woeful energy security will be part of the unfunny joke.

We're responsible for 1% of the world's tax gas (which is only 5% of total annually cycled tree food gas) so it will make f all difference anyway.

Edited by turbobloke on Sunday 19th January 17:11

I worked out all be it on the back of a fag packet that we would need a new wind farm each year equal to size of the largest we have just to provide the energy needs of the 300k plus net immigrants to our country.

You also need to remember the best and easiest sites for them will be the first to go, so it will become increasingly harder to build them in places where they will work well and people will accept them.

The saying pissing in the wind really does fit this one.

Edited by Not-The-Messiah on Tuesday 21st January 12:51

[321boost]

Good news, there is an article on BBC claiming that new housing is still dominated by roads. Good! Greenies if you’re reading this, I hope you realise that you will never defeat the car

[Burwood]

Not-The-Messiah said:

turbobloke said:

motco said:

Ok, so it's nuts!

A carbon neutral world by 2050 is nuts, by 2030 or the 12-year deadline before we fry in our own juices (!) i.e. 2032 it's not even a funny joke.

A small country like the UK may manage to get close around 2050 by means of renewables max, and planting zillions of trees. The books will need cooking by a skilled chef to get to zero, and woeful energy security will be part of the unfunny joke.

We're responsible for 1% of the world's tax gas (which is only 5% of total annually cycled tree food gas) so it will make f all difference anyway.

Edited by turbobloke on Sunday 19th January 17:11

I worked out all be it on the back of a fag packet that we would need a new wind farm each year equal to size of the largest we have just to provide the energy needs of the 300k plus net immigrants to our country.

You also need to remember the best and easiest sites for them will be the first to go, so it will become increasingly harder to build them in places where they will work well and people will accept them.

The saying pissing in the wind really does fit this one.

Edited by Not-The-Messiah on Tuesday 21st January 12:51

Greta today at the WEF stated 'we don't want net zero, we want real zero'.

[garagewidow]

Not-The-Messiah said:

I worked out all be it on the back of a fag packet that we would need a new wind farm each year equal to size of the largest we have just to provide the energy needs of the 300k plus net immigrants to our country.

You also need to remember the best and easiest sites for them will be the first to go, so it will become increasingly harder to build them in places where they will work well and people will accept them.

The saying pissing in the wind really does fit this one.

Edited by Not-The-Messiah on Tuesday 21st January 12:51

Yep,and just what energy source and how much of it will be used to provide all this?

[kev1974]

Burwood said:

Greta today at the WEF stated 'we don't want net zero, we want real zero'.

It's OK, Trump spoke there too today, and he told us to ignore the perennial prophets of doom. She's done.