Greenpeace 0, Hip 20 Something Oil Traders 1

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
The French push them around now they let nerds do it as well. What kind of protesters are they?

Most of these traders are cockney wideboys. They would whip your ass any time.

[mrmitchell]

Oh my god. This is SOOO lame.

They were hoping to paralyze oil trading at the exchange. But the traders, most of them under 25 years old, rushed the protesters, pushing filing cabinets on top of them and kicking and punching them until they retreated. Twenty-seven protesters were arrested. Two were hospitalized, one with a broken jaw and the other with a concussion. One protester says, "I have never seen anyone less amenable to listening our point of view."

What the hell? Pushing filing cabinets on top of people? What happened to "fighting fair"?

[Shi Huangdi]

Che has a point. Beating people up is not cool. They ought to have restrained them, I can't imagine breaking a jaw would be nessecary.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by ixnay


You lumping Greenpeace in with "the left" is an insult to the left.

Greenpeace is like PETA; they're the lunatic fringe.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Che has a point. Beating people up is not cool. They ought to have restrained them, I can't imagine breaking a jaw would be nessecary.

I doubt the protestors were that innocent when it came to the rough and tumble. You can't exactly claim the traders were looking for a fight. Especially considering no traders were arrested for physical assualt.

[Immortal Wombat]

Running and wriggling maybe, but no more.

But they were set upon by traders, most of whom were under the age of 25. “They were kicking and punching men and women indiscriminately,” a photographer said. “It was really ugly, but Greenpeace did not fight back.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1487741,00.html

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Running and wriggling maybe, but no more.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...487741,00.html

How did the photographer get there? Was he there by-the-by, or there to cover the event on behalf of the protesters? If the latter I would question his bias.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Dauphin


How did the photographer get there? Was he there by-the-by, or there to cover the event on behalf of the protesters? If the latter I would question his bias.

I'm not sure but I suspect Greenpeace brings along camera men to highlight any abuse they get. Basicaly it sounds like a propoganda tool.

[Immortal Wombat]

Maybe. But the Times article also provides a photograph by a Times photographer. I imagine Greenpeace called up some journos to make sure they got some coverage. Note that none of the traders are reported as injured though.

[Harry Tuttle]

Another said: “I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot.”

Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: “Sod off, Swampy.”


"Sod off, Swampy" is going to be my new catch phrase.

Anyways, if I were in the middle of a trading floor and suddenly a bunch of hooligans burst in making enough noise to wake the dead my first instinct would be to kill whatever was making the god awful noise. They could have had guns for all the traders knew. Why take the chance? They brought the fight to the traders, not the other way around.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Dauphin


Most of these traders are cockney wideboys. They would whip your ass any time.

Quite possibly. I fight like a girl. I try to avoid physical confrontations if I can help it.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Another said: “I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot.”

Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: “Sod off, Swampy.”

[Pekka]

must of been a.. weird scene. I can picture it in my head. They are gathered and have a plan. They are going to execute it.. infiltrate the nest of evil, and break up the trading with loud noises and shock effect. BadaBing BadaBoom, in, out, break it up, make a scene, make the news, piss off people and influence. That was their cool plan. But one thing they missed.. they never saw Boiler Room. They have no idea that traders are damn sadistic, super aggressive, ultra violent smashing machines. They will eat you and call it pussysushi. They might look like.. little nerdy outside, but they will KILL YOU. Wild animals!

SO these hippies hide their DDR tshirts under their little green army jackets with peace signs on them and little che guevara buttons and scarves and other hippie things required by the law so you know from who you can get drugs and who you can beat up if you feel like it. So they mass up, think they're 'awesome power'. 'YEAH LET'S KCIK SOME ASS!' and they charge in, toot the horns few times and thne about hundred young male dudes stop at what they're doing, turn their heads and look at the few hippies, complete silence, a totally annyoed 'wtf'-look in their faces. Hippies thinking, well what is going on, this atmosphere is like calm before the storm.. well let me toot my tootmachine one more time *toot* .. was that ok? 'YOU ****ER!' some one shouts and then it's all just a big collective ROAAARrrrrr NHGGHhhhhhhh DIE! enfaon commie bastards NEGinuw as the young traders go after the hippies like lions and some weak victims, totally kicking and hitting them with all hands and feet they have, trying to find anything to hit them with or throw at them, while hippies are retreating and finally get out and they run in shock like the little hippies the are and go to the secondary meeting spot, totally whipped and crying. 'There were at least 4 thousand of them! You see, you try to be polite and this is what happens, they try to kill you', while the traders are smoking ciggies outside and totally laughing, and then hippies go to their parents to ask for more money to support their weed habit.

Poetic Justice. Hey I don't come to YOUR work at what ever it is that you do and toot my horns. I leave you and your trees alone. When you go, more important than you think you are all acting up and thinking you're saving the world, while you get all your teeth knocked out and you cry and shout police and mom at the same time, remember this... I'll be laughing at you, rolling in stack of money while you get strangled in your scarve, and no one will remember you.

[Last Conformist]

I used to be accused of fighting like a girl. Usually by people who had just lost a fight against me.

[Pekka]

that prolly means you bite and pull hair, scream and scratch and go 'yaay' and jump around if you win.