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What to do when protesters glue themselves to things?
American Thinker ^ | 9 Sep, 2023 | Milli Sands

Posted on 09/09/2023 4:36:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber

What if we just...do nothing?

Depending on how long it lasts, our time may be known as the Adhesive-Based Protest Epoch(sy).

Glue-ins began in 1997, when anti-roadway protesters in the U.K. began using tactics like locking themselves together using arm tubes or gluing themselves to walls and fences.

Following that event:

In 1999, climate activist group Earth First! pioneered "lock-ons," where protesters use bicycle locks or other devices to chain themselves together into human blockades.

Throughout the 2000s, environmental groups like Earth First! and later Extinction Rebellion began using more adhesive tactics.

In 2009, Greenpeace activists climbed Mount Rushmore and unfurled a banner after gluing their hands to the mountain.

In 2011, Occupy Wall Street protesters glued bricks to the floor in strategic places to make it harder to remove encampments.

SNIP

Generally, there is no absolute legal requirement mandating that glued or attached protesters must be forcibly removed in all situations. However, authorities do have significant discretion to remove criminal trespassers or those violating reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on speech.

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To: MtnClimber

Set up a few traffic combs around them to protect them and leave


61 posted on 09/09/2023 7:49:16 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count )
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To: MtnClimber

so fo i, if they are left glued the spot they and others will think twice before doing it.. its taking away the attention they seek.


62 posted on 09/09/2023 7:54:27 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: MtnClimber

Add glue.


63 posted on 09/09/2023 7:54:40 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Highest Authority

no, a dull knife or a piece of glass.


64 posted on 09/09/2023 7:56:00 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: JBW1949
Amputation.......

Pour a strong fast-setting epoxy on their glued parts and let them know that once it sets, amputation is the only option.

And leave them a bone saw in case they don't believe you.

65 posted on 09/09/2023 7:58:03 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: BobL
...so the workers just home for the evening...

After turning off the heat and lights.

66 posted on 09/09/2023 7:59:59 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

“After turning off the heat and lights.”

Obviously, as they didn’t want to get the protesters even more angry.

Must have been quite smelly when rescue workers showed up 3 days later...but then again, isn’t that always the case with Leftists?


67 posted on 09/09/2023 8:02:08 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: DCBryan1

I guess I’m just an old softy. I would have simply found a way to move them off to the side of the roadway and left them there. Admittedly, trying to move a couple of bi-pedal buffalo encased in a barrel of cement would require a considerable amount of heavy lifting, the satisfaction of seeing them stuck on the side of an interstate highway would be well worth it. The entertainment provided to passing motorists would brighten their day as well.


68 posted on 09/09/2023 8:04:10 AM PDT by SkiKnee
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To: Ronald77

I have a dull, rusty saw out in my garage that I would donate.


69 posted on 09/09/2023 8:04:53 AM PDT by NorseWood
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To: albie
Yep. Leave them there. Put lattice work around him

And put up a sign: Public Urinal.

70 posted on 09/09/2023 8:07:44 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Highest Authority

A very sharp knife might remedy the situation!
= = =

Leave them there, with no provisions.

But give them the very sharp knife.


71 posted on 09/09/2023 8:20:57 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: MtnClimber

cut the material they have glued themselves to out, replace the material, move the protester to the side. Leave them to their own devices.

Example: Glueing themselves to a road, dig out around the place move them and a portion of the road to the sidewalk, then fix the pothole, and leave.


72 posted on 09/09/2023 8:22:04 AM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: MtnClimber

73 posted on 09/09/2023 8:24:06 AM PDT by Bobalu (The political prosecution of Donald Trump marks the official end of US democracy.)
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To: MtnClimber

Remove them with a flamethrower.


74 posted on 09/09/2023 9:11:54 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Make orwell fiction again)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Once glued people should just beat them to a pulp and then cut off the glued body part. Look, people are going to have to get mean—go 19th Century. Are we men or mice? Note: You do not see such things in China or Russia.


75 posted on 09/09/2023 9:55:39 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: MtnClimber

No, no, give them a choice. Hand them a bottle nail polish remover and put an alarm/timer just out of reach. When the alarm sounds two officers will come over and yank the glued appendage free.


76 posted on 09/09/2023 10:02:52 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: SkiKnee

Years later, their sun bleached skeletons with arm stuck in the cement would serve it’s purpose, still.


77 posted on 09/09/2023 10:03:22 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: going hot

Somehow your comment made me imagine a Gary Larson Far Side panel. Picture a couple of desiccated bodies with their arms still encased in cement, stranded on the roadside as cars are whizzing by. Larson could also - in true Far Side fashion - have one of the bodies asking itself if protesting in that way was such a brilliant idea.


78 posted on 09/09/2023 11:36:48 AM PDT by SkiKnee
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To: GreenHornet

Leave them there, and place a bottle of water just out of their reach.

And put a hacksaw or a hatchet within reach for them to use if necessary.


79 posted on 09/09/2023 4:46:39 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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To: MtnClimber

Everyone take turns peeing on them. Will eventually loosen the glue.


80 posted on 09/09/2023 9:06:10 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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