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Title: What right do these people have..
Post by: Nickbat on 31 March 2008, 12:40:19
...to commit criminal damage to push forward their views?

Extract:

"School-run mothers driving Chelsea tractors are to be targeted tomorrow by environmental protesters.

Copying tactics used in Edinburgh recently, the eco-warriors plan to deflate the tyres on 4x4's using mung beans and plaster windscreens with stickers protesting against climate change."

Full story at: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23469172-details/Green+protesters+target+school+run/article.do
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 31 March 2008, 13:13:49
If anyone goes near my 4 litre environment polluting 4x4 then I'll run them down with it ;D
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: maria on 31 March 2008, 13:22:07
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If anyone goes near my 4 litre environment polluting 4x4 then I'll run them down with it ;D



Well said james ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 31 March 2008, 13:25:23
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If anyone goes near my 4 litre environment polluting 4x4 then I'll run them down with it ;D


And they will then smirk as the inner wing gives way leaving the front body panels on the pavement  ;)
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: Martin_1962 on 31 March 2008, 13:49:06
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...to commit criminal damage to push forward their views?

Extract:

"School-run mothers driving Chelsea tractors are to be targeted tomorrow by environmental protesters.

Copying tactics used in Edinburgh recently, the eco-warriors plan to deflate the tyres on 4x4's using mung beans and plaster windscreens with stickers protesting against climate change."

Full story at: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23469172-details/Green+protesters+target+school+run/article.do


They don't - it IS criminal damage and you can have them arrested.
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: zippo on 31 March 2008, 14:02:34
you can thank the anti 4x4 greenies for your Omega ved increasing. the more noise they make the more the politicians will see more ways to tax us of the road. Most thought it was a good idea to tax the 4x4s off the road, until the government broadened the scope of the tax to include other vehicles
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: mantahatch on 31 March 2008, 14:11:31
Be very concerned when this government tries to ban something, even something like the smoking ban in pubs, might seam a good idea on the face of it but the knock on effect is huge. How long before alcohol is banned in pubs ? at the end of the day alcohol causes more problems than smoking, so it is the thin edge of the wedge, more is coming.
I admit I am scared of this government at the power it is wielding in the name of the environment.

Mike
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 31 March 2008, 14:30:20
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If anyone goes near my 4 litre environment polluting 4x4 then I'll run them down with it ;D


And they will then smirk as the inner wing gives way leaving the front body panels on the pavement  ;)

Bugger off, it's only a small hole  ;D
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: Kevin Wood on 31 March 2008, 14:32:55
I just hope we hurry up and build some more nuclear power stations. Give these tree huggers someone else to pick on.

.. and how do you deflate a tyre with a mung bean anyway?  :-/

Kevin


Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 31 March 2008, 14:41:52
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I just hope we hurry up and build some more nuclear power stations. Give these tree huggers someone else to pick on.

.. and how do you deflate a tyre with a mung bean anyway?  :-/
Kevin



Dangerous things Mung beans, all hard and tasteless unless soaked for a month....
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: Kevin Wood on 31 March 2008, 14:44:07
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I just hope we hurry up and build some more nuclear power stations. Give these tree huggers someone else to pick on.

.. and how do you deflate a tyre with a mung bean anyway?  :-/
Kevin



Dangerous things Mung beans, all hard and tasteless unless soaked for a month....


Hmm. Not familiar with such things. Probably because they're neither fermented nor hacked off a dead animal and chucked on a (CO2 generating) barbecue. ;D

Kevin
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: Martin_1962 on 31 March 2008, 16:02:59
I am the only one who has looked at a vegetarian meal and commented that would be nice with some chicken fillets/steak/whatever would work best.
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: Jay w on 31 March 2008, 16:39:22
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I am the only one who has looked at a vegetarian meal and commented that would be nice with some chicken fillets/steak/whatever would work best.

 ;D ;D ;D

No i have done the same in the past.....

didn't go down too well
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: Elite Pete on 31 March 2008, 16:41:18
What you need is a fairy bottle or one of them pump action water pistol things full of wee, that'll keep them away :y
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: bertiecbx550 on 31 March 2008, 18:22:06
HHMM i might pop down to london 2mora with my portable compressor and charge a fiver a wheel to reinflate their tyres.... ;) ;D ;D
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: Tony H on 31 March 2008, 19:00:22
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I just hope we hurry up and build some more nuclear power stations. Give

Dangerous things Mung beans, all hard and tasteless unless soaked for a month....
Mung beans are cool, put them in a large plastic sweet jar with some wet kitchen roll put the lid on,stick them in the airing cupboard or similar dark warm place a few days later........................home grown beansprouts :y
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: TheBoy on 31 March 2008, 19:05:14
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Be very concerned when this government tries to ban something, even something like the smoking ban in pubs, might seam a good idea on the face of it but the knock on effect is huge. How long before alcohol is banned in pubs ? at the end of the day alcohol causes more problems than smoking, so it is the thin edge of the wedge, more is coming.
I admit I am scared of this government at the power it is wielding in the name of the environment.

Mike
At last, someone who agrees with me, and what I've been banging on about here since the smoking ban.
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: albitz on 31 March 2008, 20:15:52
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you can thank the anti 4x4 greenies for your Omega ved increasing. the more noise they make the more the politicians will see more ways to tax us of the road. Most thought it was a good idea to tax the 4x4s off the road, until the government broadened the scope of the tax to include other vehicles
i think its the politcs of envy dressed up as a good cause,notice they are picking on kensington/chelsea.
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: Pete Elite on 31 March 2008, 20:36:01
  What you need to do is make up some horrible smelling concoction :o, take the valve out of your tyre valve, pour in the liquid, replace valve and reinflate tyre, boy will they get a shock ;D.
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: dad1uk on 31 March 2008, 20:38:42
I've put this in the readers comments section... Am I the only one, or has anyone else replied?

I appreciate everyone has the right to free speech and protest about things that upset them, but to let tyres down is nothing short of criminal damage.
I hope the courts will deal with these vandals severely.
Whether or not a 4x4 does give out more emissions does not give anyone the right to damage it.
What would be the reaction of the police if a car could not be moved because of this. To drive any vehicle on flat tyres will right the tyres off.
Who will pay?
The protesters? .... I doubt it!

- Simon, Birmingham
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: albitz on 31 March 2008, 20:44:01
it will be interesting to see how the authorities deal with it,these people used to be thought of as freaks and wierdos ,but they now seem to be a powerful and influential pressure group.on the other hand the folks in west london arent without influence either. :-/
Title: Re: What right do these people have..
Post by: Nickbat on 31 March 2008, 23:05:15
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I've put this in the readers comments section... Am I the only one, or has anyone else replied?

I appreciate everyone has the right to free speech and protest about things that upset them, but to let tyres down is nothing short of criminal damage.
I hope the courts will deal with these vandals severely.
Whether or not a 4x4 does give out more emissions does not give anyone the right to damage it.
What would be the reaction of the police if a car could not be moved because of this. To drive any vehicle on flat tyres will right the tyres off.
Who will pay?
The protesters? .... I doubt it!

- Simon, Birmingham

Good response! If I had my kids in the car and I had loads of face-painted eco-warriors trying to deflate my tyres and put stickers on my windows, I might be tempted to break my golden rule of not swearing in front of the nippers.  ::)