Posted on 06/17/2022 11:55:16 AM PDT by Morgana
This is the moment Extinction Rebellion activists were forcibly removed by furious Italian motorists after they blocked a busy motorway in Rome on Thursday.
Demonstrating over environmental issues, the protesters sat in a row across Rome's Raccordo - the city's main ring-road and one of its busiest - holding banners.
A video shot from the side of the two-lane road showed the demonstrators using road-block protest tactics also used in Britain, causing a huge traffic jam to snake back as far as the eye could see, with no police officers or vehicles in sight.
In response, irate Italian motorists at the front of the queue jumped out of their vehicles to take action - dragging the protesters across the tarmac and dumping them on to the side of the road.
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One man ripped an orange banner from the hands of the Extinction Rebellion activists and threw it over the side of the motorway barrier. A woman, dressed in a summer dress while still carrying her handbag, tore a second sign from their grasp.
After removing the banners, a second man joined the first in forcibly dragging the protesters by their arms across the tarmac to the side of the road, making enough of a gap for several vehicles to get through and past the demonstration.
However, as the first man was dragging the remaining protesters off the road, the activists he had first removed saw an opportunity and ran back into the middle of the road, and in front of the on-coming traffic - only to sit down again with their banner.
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Beaten until unconscious works for me.
See post 19. He said he though after all he went through, he was about to die in a wreck.
I’ll bet more happened after they were dragged away and all cameras were confiscated. So nothing happened...
Love it! What is ‘Extinction Rebellion’? Some kind of leftist global warming cult?
Superglued to the far side of the railing should keep this leftwing terrorists out of the way of traffic.
Hit the gas pedal, Bowling for Moonbats.
Hit a greenie weenie, get a cannoli!
Sometimes assault and battery is the correct response. Never mind the paperwork later. A re-educated dumbass will turn into an upstanding citizen in no time.
Brilliant!
Needs to apply to other highways and road, too.
I only carry one pair of handcuffs. Looks like I need to up my game. Maybe a bale of zip ties would take up the slack? It would really bite my butt if I cleared the road with one dummy and he was still able to crawl back?
I can attest that Italian motorists are ALWAYS furious
Agree!
I think is because they do not have automatic transmissions...their calves are cramping from all the clutching...
I believe it.
I remember seeing little roadside shrines to drivers that had been killed on that spot all over.
My favorite comment at the link…..
“ get yourself a set of handcuffs online..s ee them drag them to the side and handcuff them to the railings and throw away the key that way they cannot move.. and the traffic will flow”
These protestors come prepared. In addition to bolt cutters, they likely have handcuff keys.
If their arms are wrapped around the guard rail, they’d have a hard time reaching a key in their pockets.
Not them; their cohorts.
Romans are very good drivers. One day I saw a boy kick a soccer ball onto the busy, four lane Corso Vittorio Emmanuel II near Chiese Nuovo and not a single car or scooter hit the ball as it slowly bounced across the street. Amazing.
The Raccordo is a small freeway with slow speeds and the unethical, rude sitters were quickly removed. Va bene.
Not if all of them are bound.
Once upon a time Roman citizens would have solved that problem “cum gladius”...
Perhaps we’ll see such times ourselves...
I think ‘bear strength’ tear gas would be the better answer for motorists. Keep some in your car.
momma always said, “don’t play in the road”, the road is for vehicles!
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