Climate Activists

[Yel]

Jesus, this seems a world apart from all the other stuff. At least milk spilt can just be cleaned up in a few minutes.

I don't think they'll get off this lightly

Just Stop Oil activists throw tomato soup on Van Gogh's Sunflowers and glue themselves to the wall at the National Gallery

• Police have arrested two women after Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting had Heinz tomato soup thrown on it
• The incident took place at London's National Gallery this morning and was filmed by shocked art lovers
• The 19th-century painting, estimated to be worth at least £76 million, was 'unharmed' police have said
• Protesters Phoebe Plummer, 21, and Anna Holland, 20, were arrested by police after the demonstration
• The pair of Just Stop Oil climate activists had glued themselves to the floor and had to be freed by police

 

[kev1974]

It's got glass in front of it, and I suspect they knew that when they picked that particular painting - maximum impact/headlines but minimal actual damage.7

Best thing about that video is the booming "SECURITY!" voice! And then the struggle to get the cap off the superglue.

But yea, someone should probably ask her what her superglue is ultimately made from, and her pink hair dye.

And then throw them in jail for five years minimum, maybe oil will have run out by then? I am sure when I was a kid in the 70s we were constantly told that oil was going to run out in a few years.

p.s. Should have been a Warhol can really.

 

[WritersBlock]

Isn’t vandalising art a criminal act? I might have just made that up; I’ve just finished reading a dystopian novel

 

[Doctor_Wibble]

Isn’t vandalising art a criminal act? I might have just made that up; I’ve just finished reading a dystopian novel

I think if you shout something like "this monstrosity is an overrated waste of space" while throwing a bucket of paint, can of soup etc at it then that's completely fine as you are making both a valid critique and an artistic contribution at the same time.

I was a bit stuck on the connection with art but now I think about it, it's so obvious - the painting was done using oils! So is therefore inherently evil and should be banned, which totally makes sense how on earth did I miss that

 

[Yel]

It's got glass in front of it, and I suspect they knew that when they picked that particular painting - maximum impact/headlines but minimal actual damage.7

Ah! That makes more sense, damn media companies not saying what really matters!

Obviously loaded if they can afford Heinz soup.

 

[rainbowlemon]

That soup tin could have been donated to a food bank. Not had Heinz soup in years personally.

Loved the background gasps AND "security" too.

Wonder what the reaction would be if it was black kids pouring milk in Harrod's or damaging tyres.

If fuel is already unavailable to millions of families who can not afford to heat soup. What are the alternatives that could realistically be implemented overnight then? How will millions of tonnes of food be brought into our country if big oil is stopped? Will the scarcity of oil not push up prices even higher making even more unaffordable?

I've always thought they never put the real things up though even in museums, but just have copies with the originals in a vault in Switzerland.

I visited a stately home with a Rembrandt. Didn't believe that would really be left up with just a volunteer in the room.

 

[coriander]

Disgusting and laughable behavior. Massive fine I hope. I’ve had enough with extreme climate activists, they’re all unhinged

 

[judgejohndeed]

I hate those milk mats. Wow, so brave and noble to go and create a huge mess for minimum wage workers to clear up. Get a bleeping life.

 

[PrincessCharming]

I’d love to see a climate activist take their protests to The Middle East or China.

 

[LadyMuck]

How come security were so slow to react and how come there cameras all set up on tripods?

 

[Ceelea]

How come security were so slow to react and how come there cameras all set up on tripods?

Sadly, I'm beginning to think the snails pace reaction by the museum's " security " and the leniency by the courts ( some of the guys aren't even charged or they escape conviction ! ) is leading me to believe they're in on it.

I’d love to see a climate activist take their protests to The Middle East or China.

The Middle East would be interesting, but they'd give China a miss. After all, the CCP is one of their masters.

 

[NeverEnough]

I’ll die on the hill that Climate Change Activists, and indeed BLM and “trans rights” activists, are basically just far left activists, and many of the older ones probably in their younger years joined picket lines to “protect mining communities“.

 

[rainbowlemon]

They’ve done the same thing to a Aston Martin shop near Park Lane.

 

[NeverEnough]

They’ve done the same thing to a Aston Martin shop near Park Lane.

Looks worryingly like a trans sexual Jeffery Dahmer….

 

[Yel]

That's the Dartford bridge closed, and hours of delays to get through the tunnel that's operating a contraflow. They claim that they'll keep it closed for 24 hours, maybe that's true. It can't be easy getting them down from there.

 

[Ceelea]

They’ve done the same thing to a Aston Martin shop near Park Lane.

What in the duck is that... thing ?

 

[Emmelina Ball]

They’ve done the same thing to a Aston Martin shop near Park Lane.

Came here to post this! What on earth is going on - have these people lost their mind?! I have seen quite a few of these kind of videos today it all seems insanity to me.
The milk ones are also absolutely disgusting. I don’t drink cows milk myself but my god in the middle of a cost of living crisis people wasting food like that?! It’s crazy. I feel most sorry for the minimum wage workers who will have to clean that up it’s disgusting.

 

[Ceelea]

God, I wish their parents had settled for a blowjob.

 

[rainbowlemon]

 

[Ceelea]

What a useless whatever it is.