Thursday, February 17, 2005

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Laura Peek and Liz Chong have an inspiring article in the TimesOnline today:
WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they...were not prepared for...the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement.

“We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs,” one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. “I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”
HaHahahahahahahahaha!
Greenpeace had hoped to paralyse oil trading at the exchange in the City near Tower Bridge on the day that the Kyoto Protocol came into force...

Protesters conceded that mounting the operation after lunch may not have been the best plan. “The violence was instant,” Jon Beresford, 39, an electrical engineer from Nottingham, said.
Fancy that: Over thirty people breaking into a place of business drew a response they didn't like. They are lucky they didn't try that in Texas: in Texas they can shoot ppl like those. Maybe they shouldn't, but they can.

The difference between Britain and Texas may explain why the Greenies haven't tried that in, oh, say, Houston.
“They grabbed us and started kicking and punching. Then when we were on the floor they tried to push huge filing cabinets on top of us to crush us.”...“They were kicking and punching men and women indiscriminately,” a photographer said....

Mr Beresford said: “They followed the guys into the lobby and kept kicking and punching them there. They literally kicked them on to pavement.”
Oh, this is too funny.

But what's this? No sexual discrimination by the oil traders? I'd have guessed that Greenpeacies would approve of that last policy, especially when it is pursued in so heartfelt a manner. Go figure.

UPDATE: As for that "barrow boy spiv" comment, my dictionary says a barrow boy is a fruit & vegetable monger (aha! enagaged in filthy oppressive commerce. OK, I see that) and a spiv is one who has no regular job but lives by his wits. Also a slacker. And spiv comes from spiffy ie a flashy dresser, a dandy.

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