Amusing piece in today's DT by Michael Deacon about LBC's eco-protester. I've transcribed rather than linked it because there's a paywall.
These eco nuts will come unstuck
They’re back. After taking the winter off, hardline climate protesters have returned to spread disruption and dismay across the land, blocking off roads and glueing their body parts to every available surface. For several days now they’ve been
blockading oil depots up and down Britain. So on Sunday, the radio station LBC invited one protester into the studio, to interview him about his comrades’ latest stunts. This, however, proved to be a naive mistake.
Because, live on air, the protester glued his hand to the studio equipment.
Such behaviour may seem peculiar. Personally, though, I was more puzzled by LBC’s response. The station rang the police and asked them to remove the protester. Surely it would have made more sense not to bother. Just leave him indefinitely in the studio, stuck fast to the equipment. Presenters could then have run a competition, with listeners invited to predict how long the protester could hold out before desperately trying to unglue his hand. And how long it would take him to succeed. They could have offered a big cash prize to the listener whose guess came closest. It would have provided hours, days or possibly even weeks of gripping entertainment.
Perhaps LBC’s lawyers feared that the station would be prosecuted for false imprisonment. But I don’t see why. After all, LBC didn’t imprison him. He imprisoned himself.
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