Posted on 07/25/2022 5:39:28 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Tour de France fans took matters into their own hands on Saturday as they removed a gang of eco-protesters threatening to disrupt the bicycle race by sitting in the middle of the road to block riders. MailOnline has more.
"Eight climate activists from French campaign group Dernière Rénovation (Last Renovation) sporting T-shirts emblazoned with the message “we have 978 days left” to tackle environmental decline tried to stop the race during the 20th stage between Lacapelle-Marival and Rocamadouron on Saturday.
"But their attempts to wreak havoc at the stage were thwarted by spectators, who stormed onto the road and dragged them out of the path of the oncoming bikes even before the police arrived on the scene to make arrests.
"Striking pictures have emerged of the enraged fans bowling into the road to pull, push and harry the protesters off the tarmac to prevent them from ruining the race.
"Started earlier this year, Dernière Rénovation (DR) is a French faction of the international climate activism conglomerate “A22”, which includes the likes of Just Stop Oil – a U.K.-based group which attempted to disrupt the British Formula 1 Grand Prix at Silverstone on July 3rd.
"DR employ similar tactics to those used by the likes of Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain, such as gluing themselves to the road to create congestion in large cities or putting themselves in harm’s way to disrupt major events."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysceptic.org ...
1989: "Entire nations will be wiped off the face of the Earth by 2000"
1970s: "Global Cooling"
Susan Sarandon: "Millions will be killed in Iraq war"
Al Gore: "Polar Ice Caps Will Melt By 2013"
Harold Camping: "Rapture will occur in [multiple dates]"
Is biking [now] bad for the environment?
Beat them with sticks. Badly.
Obviously going to well-attended events to attract attention.
The race was on Saturday so I guess it’s actually 976 days left...sometime in March of 2025
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
-h/t Bill Shakespeare
When exercising you exhale too much CO2…
Nope, just the environuts.
Until their Climatic Climax fails to occur.
I hate bicycles but it appears the French bicycle fans have the right idea.
Although you notice they didn’t try blocking a mud bog race...
Any and all human activity is bad for the environment. Apparently we are an alien species invading Gaia.
“The race was on Saturday so I guess it’s actually 976 days left...”
Just for accuracy the TDF is a 21 stage race that takes place over 3 weeks.
As for the protesters, this occurred on at least 2 occasions with one incident causing the Pelton to stop suddenly which in turn caused a multi bike crash. And in that crash one very good cyclist fractured his shoulder.
Whopping these idiot protesters with a knotted plowline would be to good for ‘em
IMO.
“… enraged fans bowling into the road to pull, push and harry the protesters off the tarmac”
Disappointed to not see “beaten to a bloody pulp” in that list of actions.
“Pull, Push and Harry” sounds like a shyster law firm.
We used to have laws about blocking streets and jaywalking.
Why don’t these enviro whack jobs try blocking the Monaco Grand Prix and see how well that goes.
Hopefully, they kicked the s**t out of the protesters.
Isn’t that exactly what these nut jobs want to reduce the human population to 500 million people?
In their minds that should be poetic justice when the Earth’s climate brushes a few billion pesky humans off the planet.
I guess what might bother them is that most of them would be going with us meat eaters. They want control of who stays and who goes.
Socialist, want to decide the fair of billions.
“We used to have laws about blocking streets and jaywalking”
We’re talking about France here so who knows what the pertinent laws are or are not.
But I hope there was punishment and that it’s severe.
“Is biking [now] bad for the environment?”
Each rider has two-three chase cars. I suspect the Tour de France is the most polluting sport I the world. Hundreds of vehicles and heavy busses and trucks at the event.
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