Posted on 10/12/2019 7:22:57 AM PDT by lowbridge
An Extinction Rebellion protester glued himself to the top of a British Airways plane at London City Airport today.
The man, identified by Extinction Rebellion as former Paralympic cyclist James Brown, was seen clinging to the aircraft in a video streamed online by the protest group.
Mr Brown, who is visually impaired, was arrested at Heathrow last month after a protest which saw some Extinction Rebellion activists try to fly a drone near the airport.
The 54-year-old, who won a bronze medal at London 2012, glued himself to the top of a British Airways Embraer 190 jet.
Here I am on top of a f****** aeroplane at City Airport. I hate heights, Im s******* myself, I managed to get on the roof. I am so shaky, he said in a Facebook video.
This is all about the climate and ecological crisis, were protesting against government inaction on climate and ecological breakdown. They declare a climate emergency and then do nothing about it.
In fact they go the opposite direction, they sanction the expansion of airports, Heathrow, Bristol and others. We cant let this go on, we cant have our cake and eat it.
He later noticed security were approaching and said, Oh good security are coming. I hope they dont take too long because this is f****** scary.
He was eventually removed. A spokeswoman for British Airways said, We are investigating what happened as a matter of urgency.
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No common threat enemy now.
Most Westerners dont have real enemies facing their personal lives bad guys that could and would kill them or their loved ones at any time. No real, personal threats.
Many seem to need an enemy to fight, so they go all Don Quixote, chasing imaginary threats. His was windmills, theirs are threats to earth, as described by proggie talking heads.
As rescuers were bagging his scattered remains after a 10,000 foot plunge when the glue finally gave way, a large simian loped across the field holding a package of tape. One of the rescuers looked up and said “Gorilla Tape. Of course!”
Wuss.
If he was serious, hed have had only briefs on, and super glued himself on good, nose to toes.
Wuss.
The common enemy is stupidity—and we are losing!
If he wanted to make an impactful statement, he should have glued himself to Ocrazio’s plane for her recent “climate crisis” meeting in Europe.
Oh geez, you gave me a good laugh with that comment!
Call it "assisted suicide" and billed his family payment for services rendered.
Throw a bucket of acetone on him and he’ll slide right off like a bug on a windscreen (British, you know...what).
Cool...
cultural insanity has enveloped the world.
The people are so well fed and housed and cared for that all they can fear is bogeyman invented by a click bait media.
The fact this idiot won a Paralympic Games medal seven years ago is the least important fact about his stunt and should have nothing to do with this story. It is there to somehow give more weight to his idiocy, as if he is some kind of celebrity. His fifteen seconds of fame were over seven years ago. Now hes attempting to recoup those seconds by adding fifteen minutes of infamy by doing something totally stupid for a reason thats based on a hoax.
I would have ripped him off leaving a lot of skin behind.
Good one. Next test is doing loops in flight
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