Kyoto protest beaten back by inflamed petrol traders:
WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail. What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement.
Quality. My favourite part:
“Sod off, Swampy.”
From a mate:
Brilliant! The crusties invaded the LIFFE trading floor about 6-7 years ago when I worked there… It was hillarious - there were two escalators leading up to the trading floor and the guards legged it up and put the escalators in reverse. The protestors had to run up a Gladiator style travelator with hundreds of traders standing at the top waiting to take a crack at them. I still remember the email from the chairman of LIFFE thanking Gripper and ‘Mad’ Jim for leading the charge…
Oh, then we photocopied 50 quid notes and started throwing them out of windows for the crusties to fight over. Ah, happy days…
Could be going off in HK later this year.
— United States (definitely maybe)
why can’t we just give peace a chance
I think we hire out a place like Fenwick’s, plant a sign across the top of the door saying “WTO Conference here tonight!” At the same time, we tell the Fenwicks ladies there’s a group of big hitters with plenty of cash coming to the bar that night, but they may be a bit shy and dress down a bit.
It’d be great!
Oh wow. You are SUCH a big man….. I wish I could be as big and tough as you …
Your friend sounds like a bit of a cunt.
I’m sure you love the industrial Shenzhen smog hovering over you, Shakey.
Pissweak. Over here in WA, we beat the hippies with baseball bats.
I was looking for a new bumper sticker for my car. I think we have a winner in “Sod off, Swampy!”
Chris: “give piss a chance”
Great idea. Water balloons filled with it.
Concerned: Like a little cheese with that whine? Come on over and break in my workplace and stop the show, will you? I need a kicking break.
Brain Droppings had a nice post on this story, too. I loved the Cockney barrow boy spivs crack. I dropped BD an ‘IPE training vid’ I had coincidently found the next day to compliment his post. Ya ought to go and see it, Kaiser.
http://bdroppings.blogspot.com/2005/02/kyoto-protest-beaten-back-by-inflamed.html
I can’t hear it, but I think I remember it … is it “I want to see you windmilling in …. non of that Jacky Chan shit … ” ?
Oh, sure, make me watch it again (laughing … Any reason is a good reason.) …
“Begin with your warm ups. Now as I have said before, modern life in the city is full of hidden dangers. Why are we here? We are here to learn how to defend ourselves against these dangers.
This week we are going to be looking at how you can use the negative energy of the would be assailant and turn it into a postive force for your own self defense.
Okay now, Aoki(?), I’d like you to play the role of the attacker in this demonstration. Okay. Come at me.”
[The trainer then goes into a controlled, manaical, physical and verbal rage and proceeds to beat the crap out of three of the students, then instantly regains his composure to continue instruction.]
“Right. I don’t want to see any Jackie Chan bollix. I want to see some windmilling in and if you’ve got a set of keys on you, stick ‘em in your hand and make them count.
That’s good, that’s good ….”