Yep its definitely a decommissioned fire engine, the real question here is how can a bunch of activists get so near to a important government building ,set up and start there comedy routine without being intercepted by the security bods. Was this allowed by the powers that be? Or just incompetence on behalf of the security services.
Yep the sides of the truck are roll up doors were the kit is kept plenty of room to stash some nasties .and the tank,tanks as you say could be filled with a fertiliser mix, I think a nod and a wink followed by a blind eye was involved here. Still give them enough rope they will hang themselves.
The smartest thing they did, probably accidentally, was to use an Emergency Vehicle. That is the most likely reason they were able to park there without question.
Just fertilizer wouldn’t be a problem. To go bang you need ammonium nitrate based fertilizer mixed with fuel oil (diesel). Known a ANFO, this is one of the most popular explosives used in the mining industry. The use it in a pellet/powder form. Even a home made mixture is going to be pretty thick. I don’t think you’d have an easy time filling a tanker fire truck with the stuff without heavy modification.
It wouldn’t be hard at all to make a prill truck out of that jalopy!
And the explosion would probably level that building they’re parked in front of!
At least the facade would be gone!
If it’s decommissioned, the pump should be removed.
But anyway, that truck gets about 3 mpg fully laden. Just what is the environmental cost of hypocrisy?
UK Whitehall Government Offices are simply on the street with a pavement entrance. There are no external fences and no external guards – though the ground floor Windows will be sealed.
It is considered impolite for a terrorist to take advantage of this.
According to reports on twitter, the vehicle wasn’t taxed or tested and therefore not insured either. Don’t suppose that would bother these muppets but in all probability they will face their biggest penalty for these infringements rather than the protest itself.
Operating it incompetently also endangers people going about their lawful business on the public highway. But with the judiciary infected with liberal disease they will just get a slap on the wrist. Also we should be much stricter about who we let in judging by the non-London accent on the video.
I believe they are claiming that it was insured and MOT’d (UK Vehicle safety test), but a twitter user posted a screenshot from the .GOV site “Is It Taxed” which clearly shows the vehicle tax (or Road Fund Licence, if you prefer) expired at the end of August. Without this any insurance is automatically invalid…
Insurance is not invalidated by not paying the road fund license, it is a tax and has no bearing on safety or roadworthiness . Not having a valid MOT would invalidate most insurance cover.
They probably are guilty of criminal damage for spraying the building.
Shame they can’t find someone who speaks English to criticise the govt.
More importantly, those are not trained fire fighters.
There is a big problem with university educated people disrespecting the skills of people they think are less educated. What could possibly go wrong?
In context of renewable energy, we have bloviating PhD scientists who think they understand the problems involved better than supposedly less educated engineers.
I’m darn sure David Suzuki does not understand renewable energy anywhere near as well as he thinks he does.
Those were my first thoughts. The rawest rookie knows how to crawl down a broken hose line,
Defiantly not trained Fire Fighters.
BTW they stopped putting blood and animal parts in AFFF. Which made the Crash Rescues guys who had to put it out on hot runways happy. (of coursed they stopped foaming runways too)
It’s more about the amount of knowledge absorbed in academia vs the amount of hubris absorbed, which tends to handicap the knowledge factor in real world situations.
A personal anecdote; One of our departments at the university from which I retired had a big event for which they wanted to put giant signs on the grassed knolls surrounding the student parking. They told the engineers where they wanted to put the signs and we had it all located and marked for utilities, so the volunteers could drive meter-long stakes for guy wires.
When the group showed up after regular hours to install the signage, someone decided that one location was not visible enough, and the sign was moved a totally new site not located for utilities. Consequently a metal rod was driven into the high-voltage power supply cable for the parking lot lighting, causing a small arc explosion which fortunately only blew the sledgehammer out of the guy’s hands.
You shouldn’t let some folks work without supervision by crafts. 😉
It merely further demonstrates their lack of technical skill and knowledge.
They don’t even know how to connect a hose, yet they seem to know that the world’s climate is going to kill them.
Here’s a revelation for them: “Your own stupidity is going to kill you, and potentially others around you. You are more dangerous than the weather.”
We were taught in the Navy that the way to stop a runaway hose (assuming you can’t just shut down its water supply) is to stand on it as far away from the dangerous nozzle as you can, cutting (or at least minimizing) the flow of water. Once it calms down, you make a loop of hose and kink it. Looks like they didn’t know that.
It’s an old fire truck (pump) using a very old diesel engine, pumping out some serious diesel particulate pollutants in central London. It probably does about 5mpg and they have wasted about 1000 gallons of water, not including the necessary clean up operation. All for publicity to keep the climate scare going.
Worst of all, these muppets demonstrate their total inadequacy of dealing with an emergency. The guy with the blue/red jacket on casually walks away while the red fluid is ankle high flooding his feet. He then turns around and casually walk toward the wildly swinging hose that almost knocks him over. Still not understanding the danger and the forces involved he then proceeds to grab the hose and is again almost knocked over by it.
The other self-proclaimed rebel girl with the rucksack steps in to get the situation under control and tries for a whole 18 seconds to do something before walking away.
If that is the resolve of this sorid bunch of w*nkers, we are in for a first rate clown show.
Cardimona
October 4, 2019 2:04 am
There’s a kill switch on the pump panel to shut the pump down when a hose bursts.
It’s clear they had nobody trained to use that machine.
And nobody was wearing the required personal protective equipment (at least helmets and gloves).
UK Workplace Health and Safety should ping ’em.
One gets the impression that if these people get their way or are in charge, they really would have blood on their hands because their incompetence would kill many.
You beat me to it, Cardimona, but that was my first thought watching the video, “Kill the pump!”
The only thing better would have been if a bunch of Extinction Rebellion dimwits had glued their selves to the pavement before the hose broke loose; no way to run from a good soaking.
“… kill the pump!” Someone eventually did, a bystander by the looks of it. Walked up to the control panel, shut off the pump, walked away. Obviously knew what he was about.
How did the commentator get here?
I bet he didn’t walk or cycle from SA.
Typical climate change hypocrite – after you old chap wit the carbon free life.
Afrikaans speaking South African speaking English. I wonder if he addresses the own extinction event currently underway in his country of origin? Or is protesting the actual death of farmers low on the virtue signalling scale?
That truck is full of fossil fuels, miles of plastic wire covering, tires, interior, seals etc etc .. ER are seriously bored people who are uneducated in the facts of weather… Isn’t this the same thing as using a diesel generator when they did the Manchester protest.
DiggerUK
October 4, 2019 2:20 am
A diesel engined protest.
That isn’t what I call joined up thinking…_
Sunny
October 4, 2019 2:20 am
Who is going to pay to clean that up? They are no “Rebels”, they should be arrested, and fined. They do not clean up plastics, plant trees, clean the coastal beaches of plastic, all they want is control. Also, somebody should ask them, how did they get to the city? Are they all vegan, are they wearing vegan clothes… And I’m sure I missed the memo which stated that all cameras, mobile phones, and fire trucks are made from completely fossil fuel free products 😐
They should make restitution. If they had to pay for the clean-up some Sugar Daddy would cough up. Therefore they should all do enough Community Service that the same work at minimum wage would equal or exceed the cleanup cost.
An oil industry geologist of my acquaintance who is an extremist global-warmongering Trump-hating anti-Brexit Greta-worshipping hypocrite of weapons grade level said that this was a legitimate protest…
That’s a strange combination. Usually, geologists from academia and government tend to be Leftists. Geologists employed (or formerly employed) by industry tend to be more Conservative.
Graemethecat
October 4, 2019 2:47 am
It’s perfectly clear that the ER clowns are utterly clueless when it comes to the real, physical world. Just watch them run around desperately trying to hold the firehose down instead of merely turning off the pump.
Graemethecat
October 4, 2019 2:54 am
The video is on the Guardian website today. Hilariously, they don’t say anything about the debacle.
They cannot predict what their hose will do, but they predict exactly what the climate will do, for the whole Earth, for 100 years. Such big is the stupidity of the brainwashed cargo cultists.
The narrator begins, “Good morning. This is Climate Extinction London, and we are here at the UK Treasury. This morning you will see that we are just making the public aware again that this protest is being held to highlight the inconsistency between the UK government’s insistence that the UK is a world leader in tackling climate breakdown while at the same time putting vast amounts of money into fossil exploration…”
So, Bob, I wonder what the paleontologists think about that? Students in paleontology, not too late to change your major to something like “Saving One Maroon At A Time”, or SOMAAT!
A national disgrace that loonies take over a public street and approach to a government building. Not a policeman in sight – probably all dancing in the street with the loonies Nevermind Brexit We [have] abdicated our future to China and these idiots are the cheerleaders for it Climate leader [China] would turn the tanks loose on these morons
No police or security; but plenty of reporters with cameras.
Could no one see that something significant (and possibly dangerous) was about to happen and think to alert authorities?
Or have many governments now retreated to the City of Baltimore mode of “back off and let them express their rage.”?
Sub-Etha devices don’t work in galactic sector ZZ plural Z alpha for some reason. No chance of a lift out here any time soon. You may have to wait a while longer for that apology.
I would welcome being corrected if I am wrong, but I do not think the hose broke.
It looks to me that they had no idea how to handle a high pressure hose, and they had not practised their stunt in advance, so when the water pressure was turned on they lost control of the hose.
Muppets. Really, really muppets. And they want people to listen to them?!!
You are correct Richard, the PSI levels was likely over 100, which would be too hard for most people to handle.
I have handled 2 inch fire hose coming off the Fire Hydrant several times, it is not easy holding the hose, which is why you see husky firemen handling them.
looked as if the hose nozzle wasnt at full open but near closed?
nd as the pressure built the nozzle ripped off..
whatever happened its damned funny
and yes shows just HOW useless they are at reaction to a crisis in real life.
Richard, if you go to :57 on the video, you will see that there is a catastrophic failure of some sort, with fake blood flying everywhere. Also, when they are trying to get a hold of it afterwards on the ground, it appears to be without its nozzle. They do turn down the pump to help someone get a hold of it (don’t know if they ever did).
‘Climate breakdown’ is just another desperate marketing slogan pressganged into use by these self important imbeciles because none of the others seem to work anymore, what with the sort of nutjobs pulling stunts like this and destroying whatever shred of credibility they might have once had.
The so called progressives never seem to get it when it comes to their history of failures. While they are quite imaginative in coming up with ideas they are utterly incompetent when it comes to successful implementation. These nearly extinct rebels are just the latest example.
In Oz we had a post GFC stimulus package to install insulation batts in residential housing for free, i.e. paid by the government. The result was an industry swamped by demand, a massive influx of dirtbag opportunists who employed untrained installers, four of whom died in fires or by electrocution and a hundred or more houses burned down. The existing installers were smashed out of the industry by the dirtbags who bought cheap crap from China then the whole thing was shut down as the awful reality became apparent leaving the original industry players high and dry until a commission of inquiry had a good hard look at the whole debacle.
But hey, they were just trying to help save the planet.
The whole fustercluck is now just referred to as ‘Pink Batts’ and is the Oz benchmark for feelgood stuffups.
As an outcome of the energy crisis of the 70s and early 1980s new building codes for Canada was implemented which eventually cost British Columbians billions of dollars in what became known as the condo rot crisis. I still have many pamphlets and booklets on the various energy efficiency programs from that era.
and now we have the same stupid running the “pinkpanels” scam
how they can hand people 2,500k inn CASH for installing solar panels
at 30k ? applications pre month limit in vic I gather..and people NOT wondering how thats being paid for?
and the payback rate from powercos on that power produced is around 6 to 9c a kwhr
when we are charged 29 to 34c in rural areas
and people still think theyre saving money and its such a bargain
sheesh
Hear, hear! Totally irresponsible! They could have been involved in an RTA & injured or worse killed someone! The protesters are probably on benefits as they clearly do not appear to work with plenty of time to undertake these protests/stunts (most likely)! All I know if I was stopped by the police with no Road Tax, no MOT test, & NO INSURANCE, they would make a full example of me & rightly so! Perhaps we Brits should stop paying for these expensive necessities & simply claim to be saving the planet when going out for the evening/day/weekend for dinner or lunch, it would save many of us a fortune! What’s the betting this incident will be swept under the proverbial carpet & the MSM will never mention it again!
On the contrary, they have sent a powerful message to the British public that whatever the activists do, and irrespective of how many laws they break (see Michael Ozanne’s post below), the police will do nothing to restrain them and protect the public and public property. Painting a building with fake blood whether successful or not was not the real message . The real message was that they can do what they like, to anyone or any property, anywhere in Britain , with no restraint whatsoever.
They were too stupid to:
a)secure the nozzle to the hose
b)Turn off the tap when they “lost control of it”
Committed a common assault by clobbered the graun journo they tipped off about the stunt
Recklessly endangered the public by operating pressurised liquid equipment in a public place without possessing even a single clue about safe operation..
The following Road traffic offences were committed
No Tax
No MoT vehicle safety certificate
Driver not licensed to this class of vehicle
If no MoT the vehicle is uninsured if driven irrespective of any policy held
Having flashing blues on a private vehicle even if disabled is an offense under the Vehicle Lighting regulations.
The following civil penalty notices incurred
Parking on a “red route”
Not paying Congestion Charge
Not Paying Low Emission Zone charge
The following environmental offences were committed
Deliberate damage to a Grade II listed building
Discharging untreated vegetable waste into a watercourse.
Meantime they have contacted Mystic Meg so that the spirit of Mack Sennet can be channeled for the planning of future operations.
All true.. let’s see who gets arrested and fined or jailed… The woman whos name I forget, took a psychedelic while on holiday and said god told her to save the planet.. If using fossil fuels saves the planet, what are they protesting for?
Yes, and his modest proposal applied only to Irish babies. Here in the 21st century we’ve advanced so far toward social justice that babies of all ethnicities are equally fair game.
Minor disagreement, looking at the picture it looks as though it is parked on double yellow lines, not a red route.
Sara
October 4, 2019 4:40 am
Well! That was certainly the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a while! And the silliest. Colored water doesn’t really look or smell like blood, either, and where would they get enough to try to pull off this stunt, anyway?
Another proof in real time of their pure lack of understanding about things in general.
Easy enough, a slaughter house.
A cow has an average of 10 gallons each and Pigs average around 4-5 gallons each.
Just dose the animals on anticoagulants prior to harvesting their blood
Graemethecat
October 4, 2019 4:47 am
Someone should put the music from the Benny Hill Show on this video.
Its funny how as soon as they try to do something in the real world it rapidly turns to excrement. These guys staged a protest recently and did it in front of the wrong building. Yet they want to tell us how to change the world? beyond a hashtag campaign and whining to each other they have no clue.
Tom Gelsthorpe
October 4, 2019 5:07 am
Political street theater degenerates to farce effortlessly, even when it doesn’t begin as farce in the first place.
We shouldn’t expect even minimal self-awareness from people who believe they will save the world by going crazy in public spaces. However, onlookers who are NOT crazy, can still be amused.
MUPPET’S!
Nor is it a Fire Engine. It’s a truck painted red, filled with water.
It might be a decommissioned Fire Engine but that consigns it to the above description.
Yep its definitely a decommissioned fire engine, the real question here is how can a bunch of activists get so near to a important government building ,set up and start there comedy routine without being intercepted by the security bods. Was this allowed by the powers that be? Or just incompetence on behalf of the security services.
B d Clark
Since 9/11 any commercial aeroplane posing a threat runs the risk of being shot down by fighters.
How much fertilser could that truck potentially hold and what damage could it inflict.
As you say, that thing should have been intercepted and the occupants/participants arrested until any terrorism threat was was established.
Will we never learn in the UK?
Yep the sides of the truck are roll up doors were the kit is kept plenty of room to stash some nasties .and the tank,tanks as you say could be filled with a fertiliser mix, I think a nod and a wink followed by a blind eye was involved here. Still give them enough rope they will hang themselves.
Truth is like a fire hose. If you don’t have a firm grip you wind up drenched.
The smartest thing they did, probably accidentally, was to use an Emergency Vehicle. That is the most likely reason they were able to park there without question.
Aidan,
Or the dumbest thing. That’ll be how terrorists do it the next time.
Just fertilizer wouldn’t be a problem. To go bang you need ammonium nitrate based fertilizer mixed with fuel oil (diesel). Known a ANFO, this is one of the most popular explosives used in the mining industry. The use it in a pellet/powder form. Even a home made mixture is going to be pretty thick. I don’t think you’d have an easy time filling a tanker fire truck with the stuff without heavy modification.
They are a bunch of incompetent idiots. They couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery.
It’s not appropriate to discuss the details but it isn’t as difficult as you might think
It wouldn’t be hard at all to make a prill truck out of that jalopy!
And the explosion would probably level that building they’re parked in front of!
At least the facade would be gone!
Good morning Boys and Girls, Welcome to the neighborhood, can you spell DOOFUS?
D O O F U S … I knew you could
Hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha
It is certainly disconcerting a load of (climate) terrorists could get that close. Heads should roll.
NO!
If it’s decommissioned, the pump should be removed.
But anyway, that truck gets about 3 mpg fully laden. Just what is the environmental cost of hypocrisy?
“Just what is the environmental cost of hypocrisy?”
Another video I’ve seen shows clouds of black smoke pouring out of the exhaust at one point! REAL Carbon emissions, NOT harmless CO2…
An older diesel engine and one that likely needs to be rebuilt.
They likely fueled it with the cheapest diesel available.
May have been used chip fat to appear “environmentally friendly”!
ATheoK:
An older diesel engine and one that likely needs to be rebuilt.
They likely fueled it with the cheapest diesel available.
– They didn’t take horses because of methane “pollution”:
https://www.google.com/search?q=horse+drawn+fire+engine&oq=horse+powered+fire+engine+&aqs=chrome.
+ they weren’t enough men to pull the engine themselves:
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-huawei&sxsrf=ACYBGNSh5M4H-Wfh2eh7078dJZNMGMMeew%3A1571031056765&ei=EAikXd6iLoOhmwXqw4vgCA&q=hand+pulled+fire+engine&oq=hand+pulled+fire+engine&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
UK Whitehall Government Offices are simply on the street with a pavement entrance. There are no external fences and no external guards – though the ground floor Windows will be sealed.
It is considered impolite for a terrorist to take advantage of this.
Oh, jolly good show!
Apparently they bought it on Ebay.
and it doesn’t have a road licence and maybe no insurance. I did see any arrests
According to reports on twitter, the vehicle wasn’t taxed or tested and therefore not insured either. Don’t suppose that would bother these muppets but in all probability they will face their biggest penalty for these infringements rather than the protest itself.
Operating it incompetently also endangers people going about their lawful business on the public highway. But with the judiciary infected with liberal disease they will just get a slap on the wrist. Also we should be much stricter about who we let in judging by the non-London accent on the video.
I would say he was South African.
I believe they are claiming that it was insured and MOT’d (UK Vehicle safety test), but a twitter user posted a screenshot from the .GOV site “Is It Taxed” which clearly shows the vehicle tax (or Road Fund Licence, if you prefer) expired at the end of August. Without this any insurance is automatically invalid…
Insurance is not invalidated by not paying the road fund license, it is a tax and has no bearing on safety or roadworthiness . Not having a valid MOT would invalidate most insurance cover.
They probably are guilty of criminal damage for spraying the building.
Shame they can’t find someone who speaks English to criticise the govt.
An MOT certificate is only valid on the day of the MOT test.
More importantly, those are not trained fire fighters.
There is a big problem with university educated people disrespecting the skills of people they think are less educated. What could possibly go wrong?
In context of renewable energy, we have bloviating PhD scientists who think they understand the problems involved better than supposedly less educated engineers.
I’m darn sure David Suzuki does not understand renewable energy anywhere near as well as he thinks he does.
Not trained as any useful occupation. I’m 70 and know how to crawl down a dropped hose. AND smart enough to secure the pump. IDIOTS.
Aqueous Fire Fighting Solution is mostly actual blood, is very sticky and foamy and would have been more effective.
Doug Huffman
Those were my first thoughts. The rawest rookie knows how to crawl down a broken hose line,
Defiantly not trained Fire Fighters.
BTW they stopped putting blood and animal parts in AFFF. Which made the Crash Rescues guys who had to put it out on hot runways happy. (of coursed they stopped foaming runways too)
I have a brother in-law with a degree from the University of British Columbia and he is a fire fighter for the city of Surrey, B.C.
It’s more about the amount of knowledge absorbed in academia vs the amount of hubris absorbed, which tends to handicap the knowledge factor in real world situations.
A personal anecdote; One of our departments at the university from which I retired had a big event for which they wanted to put giant signs on the grassed knolls surrounding the student parking. They told the engineers where they wanted to put the signs and we had it all located and marked for utilities, so the volunteers could drive meter-long stakes for guy wires.
When the group showed up after regular hours to install the signage, someone decided that one location was not visible enough, and the sign was moved a totally new site not located for utilities. Consequently a metal rod was driven into the high-voltage power supply cable for the parking lot lighting, causing a small arc explosion which fortunately only blew the sledgehammer out of the guy’s hands.
You shouldn’t let some folks work without supervision by crafts. 😉
It merely further demonstrates their lack of technical skill and knowledge.
They don’t even know how to connect a hose, yet they seem to know that the world’s climate is going to kill them.
Here’s a revelation for them: “Your own stupidity is going to kill you, and potentially others around you. You are more dangerous than the weather.”
We were taught in the Navy that the way to stop a runaway hose (assuming you can’t just shut down its water supply) is to stand on it as far away from the dangerous nozzle as you can, cutting (or at least minimizing) the flow of water. Once it calms down, you make a loop of hose and kink it. Looks like they didn’t know that.
Looks like a Dennis to me. Perhaps hot scot is not so hot
It’s an old fire truck (pump) using a very old diesel engine, pumping out some serious diesel particulate pollutants in central London. It probably does about 5mpg and they have wasted about 1000 gallons of water, not including the necessary clean up operation. All for publicity to keep the climate scare going.
Worst of all, these muppets demonstrate their total inadequacy of dealing with an emergency. The guy with the blue/red jacket on casually walks away while the red fluid is ankle high flooding his feet. He then turns around and casually walk toward the wildly swinging hose that almost knocks him over. Still not understanding the danger and the forces involved he then proceeds to grab the hose and is again almost knocked over by it.
The other self-proclaimed rebel girl with the rucksack steps in to get the situation under control and tries for a whole 18 seconds to do something before walking away.
If that is the resolve of this sorid bunch of w*nkers, we are in for a first rate clown show.
There’s a kill switch on the pump panel to shut the pump down when a hose bursts.
It’s clear they had nobody trained to use that machine.
And nobody was wearing the required personal protective equipment (at least helmets and gloves).
UK Workplace Health and Safety should ping ’em.
And they emitted carbons!
One gets the impression that if these people get their way or are in charge, they really would have blood on their hands because their incompetence would kill many.
You beat me to it, Cardimona, but that was my first thought watching the video, “Kill the pump!”
The only thing better would have been if a bunch of Extinction Rebellion dimwits had glued their selves to the pavement before the hose broke loose; no way to run from a good soaking.
“… kill the pump!” Someone eventually did, a bystander by the looks of it. Walked up to the control panel, shut off the pump, walked away. Obviously knew what he was about.
UK? with a South Ifrican Accent?
How did the commentator get here?
I bet he didn’t walk or cycle from SA.
Typical climate change hypocrite – after you old chap wit the carbon free life.
Afrikaans speaking South African speaking English. I wonder if he addresses the own extinction event currently underway in his country of origin? Or is protesting the actual death of farmers low on the virtue signalling scale?
I too noticed the strained English accent.
That truck is full of fossil fuels, miles of plastic wire covering, tires, interior, seals etc etc .. ER are seriously bored people who are uneducated in the facts of weather… Isn’t this the same thing as using a diesel generator when they did the Manchester protest.
A diesel engined protest.
That isn’t what I call joined up thinking…_
Who is going to pay to clean that up? They are no “Rebels”, they should be arrested, and fined. They do not clean up plastics, plant trees, clean the coastal beaches of plastic, all they want is control. Also, somebody should ask them, how did they get to the city? Are they all vegan, are they wearing vegan clothes… And I’m sure I missed the memo which stated that all cameras, mobile phones, and fire trucks are made from completely fossil fuel free products 😐
What kind of paint is it? Oil-based or water-based latex?
They should make restitution. If they had to pay for the clean-up some Sugar Daddy would cough up. Therefore they should all do enough Community Service that the same work at minimum wage would equal or exceed the cleanup cost.
Both.
Let the sugar daddy cough-up and give the perpetrators community service. …wearing dunce caps.
The Ecologist are selling XR T-shirts for £19. Apparently.
There maybe some discounted. In red.
No tax, no MOT, no sense and no science.
And in all probability, no fine.
🎯!
Lack of Science and Lack of ConScience
The (obviously) South African would have said the classic SA phrase, “Ya, well, no, fine.”
The video too is a classic from this day forth.
Hearing that big diesel chugging away as it pumped that tainted water at an environmental protest really made my morning 🙂
https://twitter.com/i/events/1179870980748926977?s=13
Imagine what would happen if their was no fossil fuels?
I doubt any of those blokes would survive long once the food in the grocery stores ran out.
They wouldn’t last a minute w/o their cellphones.
An oil industry geologist of my acquaintance who is an extremist global-warmongering Trump-hating anti-Brexit Greta-worshipping hypocrite of weapons grade level said that this was a legitimate protest…
That’s a strange combination. Usually, geologists from academia and government tend to be Leftists. Geologists employed (or formerly employed) by industry tend to be more Conservative.
It’s perfectly clear that the ER clowns are utterly clueless when it comes to the real, physical world. Just watch them run around desperately trying to hold the firehose down instead of merely turning off the pump.
The video is on the Guardian website today. Hilariously, they don’t say anything about the debacle.
There’s one with a Benny Hill accompaniment.
They cannot predict what their hose will do, but they predict exactly what the climate will do, for the whole Earth, for 100 years. Such big is the stupidity of the brainwashed cargo cultists.
The narrator begins, “Good morning. This is Climate Extinction London, and we are here at the UK Treasury. This morning you will see that we are just making the public aware again that this protest is being held to highlight the inconsistency between the UK government’s insistence that the UK is a world leader in tackling climate breakdown while at the same time putting vast amounts of money into fossil exploration…”
“Fossil Exploration?” They’re protesting fossil exploration?
What a maroon!!
So, Bob, I wonder what the paleontologists think about that? Students in paleontology, not too late to change your major to something like “Saving One Maroon At A Time”, or SOMAAT!
Damn dinosaurs.
A national disgrace that loonies take over a public street and approach to a government building. Not a policeman in sight – probably all dancing in the street with the loonies Nevermind Brexit We [have] abdicated our future to China and these idiots are the cheerleaders for it Climate leader [China] would turn the tanks loose on these morons
No police or security; but plenty of reporters with cameras.
Could no one see that something significant (and possibly dangerous) was about to happen and think to alert authorities?
Or have many governments now retreated to the City of Baltimore mode of “back off and let them express their rage.”?
Did you not see the woman police person,
enter the building to warn people about what was to happen?
Perhaps she should have stopped it?
I am still awaiting an apology from someone as to why I was dropped off on the wrong planet.
No, no, Alex – THEY were dropped off on the wrong planet. Even Mars is the wrong planet. Wrong Solar System, in fact.
To add to all the wrongs — isn’t that “fire-engine” on the wrong side of the road or facing the wrong way for London? 😉
Sub-Etha devices don’t work in galactic sector ZZ plural Z alpha for some reason. No chance of a lift out here any time soon. You may have to wait a while longer for that apology.
Is ‘Climate breakdown’ the new go-to description of CAGW?
Has ‘climate emergency’ already lost its effect?
It’s a pity the hose broke before it pushed all of them off the top of the truck.
John in Oz,
I would welcome being corrected if I am wrong, but I do not think the hose broke.
It looks to me that they had no idea how to handle a high pressure hose, and they had not practised their stunt in advance, so when the water pressure was turned on they lost control of the hose.
Muppets. Really, really muppets. And they want people to listen to them?!!
Richard
You are correct Richard, the PSI levels was likely over 100, which would be too hard for most people to handle.
I have handled 2 inch fire hose coming off the Fire Hydrant several times, it is not easy holding the hose, which is why you see husky firemen handling them.
Looks like a standard 2.5 inch hose probably at 30-45 psi. It’s pretty clear that the nozzle & play pipe were not properly attached to the hose.
looked as if the hose nozzle wasnt at full open but near closed?
nd as the pressure built the nozzle ripped off..
whatever happened its damned funny
and yes shows just HOW useless they are at reaction to a crisis in real life.
Richard, if you go to :57 on the video, you will see that there is a catastrophic failure of some sort, with fake blood flying everywhere. Also, when they are trying to get a hold of it afterwards on the ground, it appears to be without its nozzle. They do turn down the pump to help someone get a hold of it (don’t know if they ever did).
The hose broke. You can see there is no coupling on the end of it.
‘Climate breakdown’ is just another desperate marketing slogan pressganged into use by these self important imbeciles because none of the others seem to work anymore, what with the sort of nutjobs pulling stunts like this and destroying whatever shred of credibility they might have once had.
The so called progressives never seem to get it when it comes to their history of failures. While they are quite imaginative in coming up with ideas they are utterly incompetent when it comes to successful implementation. These nearly extinct rebels are just the latest example.
In Oz we had a post GFC stimulus package to install insulation batts in residential housing for free, i.e. paid by the government. The result was an industry swamped by demand, a massive influx of dirtbag opportunists who employed untrained installers, four of whom died in fires or by electrocution and a hundred or more houses burned down. The existing installers were smashed out of the industry by the dirtbags who bought cheap crap from China then the whole thing was shut down as the awful reality became apparent leaving the original industry players high and dry until a commission of inquiry had a good hard look at the whole debacle.
But hey, they were just trying to help save the planet.
The whole fustercluck is now just referred to as ‘Pink Batts’ and is the Oz benchmark for feelgood stuffups.
As an outcome of the energy crisis of the 70s and early 1980s new building codes for Canada was implemented which eventually cost British Columbians billions of dollars in what became known as the condo rot crisis. I still have many pamphlets and booklets on the various energy efficiency programs from that era.
and now we have the same stupid running the “pinkpanels” scam
how they can hand people 2,500k inn CASH for installing solar panels
at 30k ? applications pre month limit in vic I gather..and people NOT wondering how thats being paid for?
and the payback rate from powercos on that power produced is around 6 to 9c a kwhr
when we are charged 29 to 34c in rural areas
and people still think theyre saving money and its such a bargain
sheesh
Hear, hear! Totally irresponsible! They could have been involved in an RTA & injured or worse killed someone! The protesters are probably on benefits as they clearly do not appear to work with plenty of time to undertake these protests/stunts (most likely)! All I know if I was stopped by the police with no Road Tax, no MOT test, & NO INSURANCE, they would make a full example of me & rightly so! Perhaps we Brits should stop paying for these expensive necessities & simply claim to be saving the planet when going out for the evening/day/weekend for dinner or lunch, it would save many of us a fortune! What’s the betting this incident will be swept under the proverbial carpet & the MSM will never mention it again!
RTA’s (Road Traffic Accident) are called RTC’s now. Road Traffic Collisions because they are no accident.
What a bunch of idiots.
On the contrary, they have sent a powerful message to the British public that whatever the activists do, and irrespective of how many laws they break (see Michael Ozanne’s post below), the police will do nothing to restrain them and protect the public and public property. Painting a building with fake blood whether successful or not was not the real message . The real message was that they can do what they like, to anyone or any property, anywhere in Britain , with no restraint whatsoever.
Exactly!
Fits right in with the 1010 ads of 9 years ago.
https://youtu.be/rKgtWWCGQZ8
As far as I can tell the following occured :
They were too stupid to:
a)secure the nozzle to the hose
b)Turn off the tap when they “lost control of it”
Committed a common assault by clobbered the graun journo they tipped off about the stunt
Recklessly endangered the public by operating pressurised liquid equipment in a public place without possessing even a single clue about safe operation..
The following Road traffic offences were committed
No Tax
No MoT vehicle safety certificate
Driver not licensed to this class of vehicle
If no MoT the vehicle is uninsured if driven irrespective of any policy held
Having flashing blues on a private vehicle even if disabled is an offense under the Vehicle Lighting regulations.
The following civil penalty notices incurred
Parking on a “red route”
Not paying Congestion Charge
Not Paying Low Emission Zone charge
The following environmental offences were committed
Deliberate damage to a Grade II listed building
Discharging untreated vegetable waste into a watercourse.
Meantime they have contacted Mystic Meg so that the spirit of Mack Sennet can be channeled for the planning of future operations.
Michael ozanne
All true.. let’s see who gets arrested and fined or jailed… The woman whos name I forget, took a psychedelic while on holiday and said god told her to save the planet.. If using fossil fuels saves the planet, what are they protesting for?
I wonder if that is the same woman who suggested “eating the babies” to save the planet at a recent AOC townhall.
To be fair Jonathan Swift beat to the punch by 290 years… only he was being absurd on purpose…
Yes, and his modest proposal applied only to Irish babies. Here in the 21st century we’ve advanced so far toward social justice that babies of all ethnicities are equally fair game.
Minor disagreement, looking at the picture it looks as though it is parked on double yellow lines, not a red route.
Well! That was certainly the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a while! And the silliest. Colored water doesn’t really look or smell like blood, either, and where would they get enough to try to pull off this stunt, anyway?
Another proof in real time of their pure lack of understanding about things in general.
Easy enough, a slaughter house.
A cow has an average of 10 gallons each and Pigs average around 4-5 gallons each.
Just dose the animals on anticoagulants prior to harvesting their blood
Someone should put the music from the Benny Hill Show on this video.
PPPPPPerfect!
Its funny how as soon as they try to do something in the real world it rapidly turns to excrement. These guys staged a protest recently and did it in front of the wrong building. Yet they want to tell us how to change the world? beyond a hashtag campaign and whining to each other they have no clue.
Political street theater degenerates to farce effortlessly, even when it doesn’t begin as farce in the first place.
We shouldn’t expect even minimal self-awareness from people who believe they will save the world by going crazy in public spaces. However, onlookers who are NOT crazy, can still be amused.