Posted on 10/08/2019 3:05:06 PM PDT by buckalfa
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. - Virginia State Police say they arrested a Mountain Valley Pipeline protester Monday morning.
Police found the protester attached to a contracted pipeline helicopter at a work site on Cove Hollow Road, near Route 460 in Montgomery County, according to the Virginia State Police.
Authorities removed and arrested Galen Sol Shirman-Grabowski, 24, of Tuscon, Arizona.
Pipeline security found Grabowski masked and attached to the rotor mast of the helicopter by a Sleeping Dragon device, refusing to leave.
There was a banner on the helicopter that said, "DOOM TO THE PIPELINE," according to Appalachians Against Pipelines.
Grabowski is the 18th "pipeline fighter" to lock his or her body to Mountain Valley Pipeline equipment in 2019, according to Appalachians Against Pipelines.
Grabowski was charged with the following:
Tamper/damage an aircraft (felony)
Prohibition of wearing of masks in certain places (felony)
Obstructing justice, without force (misdemeanor)
Entering property of another for the purpose of damaging it (misdemeanor)
Breaking, injuring, defacing, destroying or preventing the operation of vehicle, aircraft or boat (misdemeanor)
Injuring property (misdemeanor)
Grabowski is being held without bond.
What is the point of the mask if you’re already caught?
He looks cold. Too bad they did not fire up the Lycoming
Very lovely. I only posted the link. Looks like Greta Thunberg!
Interfering with an Aircraft is a Major Felony!! The pilot should have started the engine, I know the rotor would have been toats and maybe a lot more, but it would be the last time somebody tried this.
If this idiot has a job, it’s at a carwash or McDonalds...
My guess he lives at home when he’s not out somewhere getting in the way...
Wasn’t there a country that used to drop commies from helicopters?
How did he get from Tucson to Virginia, walk? If not he must have utilized some kind of conveyance that is powered by (wait for it) FOSSIL FUELS. Ironic huh?
George Soros transported him would be my guess.
lol
They should have used police batons until they broke
This incident made me think of Rachel Corrie. We recall she was flattened by a bulldozer. This guy was lucky he didn’t get sliced up like a salami.
looks like a tranny
Usually Judy Leblanc is the Communist in charge of organizing Pipeline Protests for CPUSA.
My guess is he’ll only get convicted on the preventing operation charge.
Would’ve been better to just not notice he was there and take off.
Argentina for one.
“Lycoming”
PT6-42 (or some other two number descriptor) turbine.
Smaller than a Lycoming and 10 times more powerful.
I DO catch your drift!
Take his key and leave him there for a week or so..
I don’t know why I thought that, TBH.
” The pilot should have started the engine...”
BIG waste of money - starting a turbine costs about $2,000. One cycle.
I think you are wrong. It is probable that he is a well payed protester who is accustomed to getting arrested and immediately released.
his job is to protest a pipeline.
He is now in jail with no bond. We must wonder if he will be payed while in jail and subsequently in prison.
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