Why Do We Stop Protestors?
The world is full of famous duos – Armstrong and Aldrin, Cain and Abel, Sooty and Sweep, and when it came to climbing things we had Hillary and Norgay for the really tricky one.
Sir Edmund had the right idea about things. He climbed Everest for Queen and Country without any Health and Safety Assessment or approval from his local council. Certainly no tax-payer funded helicopter rescue if he stubbed his big toe and no option to sue the Everest Safety Partnership if the ice was too cold. Which is one of the many reasons that his type is worth a hundred thousand of the likes of these wasters:
Of a list of Things To Do On A Sunday you’d say that climbing the Houses of Parliament was a bit passe. It’s been done before and the view isn’t that special when you get there. The one plus point if you have a uniform fetish is the large number of Police officers and those plastic pretend-policemen who miraculously appear from various coffee shops and brothels in order to Strut Around Importantly(tm).
Seriously, why? If somebody climbs a building, chains themselves to a railing or goes on hunger strike, why do we do anything? Put the boltcutters away. Pack up the saline dripfeeds. They’re only after attention so we should just ignore them and stroll on past in the direction of something better to do. Leave them chained to the railing…and it’s more fun if they’ve swallowed the only key as it’s going to take a good few days for it to work its way through their system. Then they’re going to have to sift through the evidence. Who knows, if it’s raining when the key finally exits then it may get washed away leaving our intrepid demonstrator with a real problem.
By all means put up a sign underneath these climate nut-jobs warning passers-by that in the event of a snowstorm the roof above might get slippery and there is a danger of falling protestors impacting heavily on the cobblestones. Mind you don’t slip – their guts will fly everywhere. Apart from that, leave them where they are. No expensive carbon-spewing baby-polar-bear-killing helicopters, and no need for us to pay for their stay in the cells afterwards with the legal aid and court costs.
People would stop doing this idiotic sort of thing if we collectively didn’t give a rats arse and left them to get on with it. Make a stand! Ignore a moron today!
Or they could be used for target practice. Those are historic buildings and I don’t like the idea of these blubs tearing them up.
I agree, and it’d be a great way of solving the training cutbacks for the Territorial Army…at least for the sniper section. You’d probably want the heavy artillery chappies to back off from this one though.
2 questions. why didn’t any of them fall off ?
Why did the police need to use a very expensive helicopter that could have been chasing proper criminals ?
Unfortunately gravity was looking in the other direction at the time, banned. Doubtless we would have been sued though, for not putting up This Roof Is High Up signs on it, or by the parents of traumatised children when the bodies started to fall.
The cheapest option would have been to give those children air-rifles to take pot-shots. An inexpensive family fun day out for the kiddies and valuable lessons learned all round.