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Gipsy Queen 11th Oct 2019 21:14


Originally Posted by Airbubba (Post 10591410)
Actually I was replying to an earlier post that I had quoted suggesting that this guy could have harmed himself or the aircraft while climbing on the various probes. For some reason the earlier post and my quote of it were removed without comment. :confused:

I responded to your earlier post and my contribution suffered the same fate. Not for the first time recently. Curious.

Gipsy Queen 11th Oct 2019 21:40


Originally Posted by sixchannel (Post 10592105)
I do wonder who are the Paymasters - the 'money' - behind them?

Well, one of them is Christopher Hohn who reputedly is worth 1,2 billion and directly gave £50,000 to the extinction people. Via a charity in which he is involved, he donated a further £150,000 to this same bunch of anarchists. He is reported as saying that he provided this cash "because humanity is aggressively destroying the world with climate change and there is an urgent need for us all to wake up to this fact". His money could have been more wisely spent.

Like the bulk of those engaged in this spurious exercise, he concerns himself with the consequences of human action, not the principal causal factor which is world overpopulation.

Summer Lovin 12th Oct 2019 01:00

Get airborne and see how strong that glue is.

mrdeux 12th Oct 2019 02:14

Would he have come off at bug speed?

Foxcotte 12th Oct 2019 06:02

I am very curious about something. Regardless of whether he bought a ticket or not, but how the hell does anyone (visually, physically impaired or fully able bodied) get onto the top of a plane?

A maintenance scaffold I can understand, even a crane. But to walk up to the door of an airliner either on a gantry or air bridge or steps .., how DO you get from there to the top of the fuselage without either some serious assistance, gymnastics or other equipment?

fox niner 12th Oct 2019 06:30


Originally Posted by sixchannel (Post 10592021)
Quite so. No JSA etc unless LOOKING for Work
BTW - I wonder how they all got there?

How is he going to look for work, if he is visually impaired?

His dudeness 12th Oct 2019 06:58


Originally Posted by Blue_Circle (Post 10592031)
Why do so many people persist in believing the myth that all these protesters are unemployed or unemployable? Just because you or I wouldn't give up a day or two for it doesn't meant that there aren't plenty of people out there who would.

Wether they are employed or not is maybe harder to tell, that they are unemployable is quite self evident IMHO. Unless you are in the anarchy business, then these people are just what you should be looking for.

hoss183 12th Oct 2019 10:04

Ive seen them do this on the trains in India to avoid buying a ticket, but i dont think it works for planes ;)

763 jock 12th Oct 2019 10:44

Should have de-iced it Hot mix 75/25.

lomapaseo 12th Oct 2019 13:48


Originally Posted by Foxcotte (Post 10592447)
I am very curious about something. Regardless of whether he bought a ticket or not, but how the hell does anyone (visually, physically impaired or fully able bodied) get onto the top of a plane?

A maintenance scaffold I can understand, even a crane. But to walk up to the door of an airliner either on a gantry or air bridge or steps .., how DO you get from there to the top of the fuselage without either some serious assistance, gymnastics or other equipment?

If you somehow figure this out please keep it to yourself

DaveReidUK 12th Oct 2019 19:50


Originally Posted by IBMJunkman (Post 10592211)
What type of glue? Or am I a weirdo for wanting to know?

Presumably wallpaper paste. :O

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4bebb8a2c5.jpg

Fonsini 12th Oct 2019 20:26

Someone should follow this guy around until he takes his next TUI flight to Malaga for his hols.......

SOPS 13th Oct 2019 04:45

Just follow him until he gets into his car, makes a phone call, turns the lights on in his house... you get the idea ...

Raffles S.A. 13th Oct 2019 06:52

They should have just gone ahead with the flight with him glued to the plane. These people are challenged. If they feel so strongly about the subject, why don't they go plant trees in the Sahara desert, or go protest in China, or tell dicaprio and associates (who pay lip service to "climate change") to stop using their private jets, yachts and other CO2 toys?

Webby737 13th Oct 2019 11:52


Originally Posted by Foxcotte (Post 10592447)
I am very curious about something. Regardless of whether he bought a ticket or not, but how the hell does anyone (visually, physically impaired or fully able bodied) get onto the top of a plane?

A maintenance scaffold I can understand, even a crane. But to walk up to the door of an airliner either on a gantry or air bridge or steps .., how DO you get from there to the top of the fuselage without either some serious assistance, gymnastics or other equipment?

It's actually very easy on an aircraft that size.
Provided you have stairs up to one of the pax/service doors.
As I mentioned in my previous post, it's probably best not to go into detail on a public forum. We don't want to be giving the idiots any additional info.

DaveReidUK 13th Oct 2019 12:41


Originally Posted by SOPS (Post 10593104)
Just follow him until he gets into his car, makes a phone call, turns the lights on in his house... you get the idea ...

Are you suggesting that we should all go back to living in caves and sending smoke signals ?

kikatinalong 13th Oct 2019 15:47


Originally Posted by DaveReidUK (Post 10593371)
Are you suggesting that we should all go back to living in caves and sending smoke signals ?

'just think of all that excess smoke in the atmosphere from all those signal fires

Raffles S.A. 13th Oct 2019 17:51

This video explains these crazy people perfectly.


DaveReidUK 13th Oct 2019 18:46


Originally Posted by Raffles S.A. (Post 10593526)
This video explains these crazy people perfectly.

I very much doubt that PJW has ever explained anything perfectly in his life. :O

Airbubba 13th Oct 2019 19:04


Originally Posted by Diavel (Post 10592016)
Just lock the bastard up and throw away the key.
It is interesting,how many people who does not want a real job, but instead decides to become “activists”. They should not be entitled to any kind of benefits, unless they work.



He's already out of jail.

From The Evening Standard:


A former Paralympic cyclist has denied climbing on to a British Airways plane and gluing himself to it during the

Extinction Rebellion protests.

James Brown, who is visually impaired, is accused of causing a public nuisance by climbing on top of the aircraft at
London City Airport on Thursday.The 55-year-old appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday where a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf by his solicitor Raj Chada.

District judge John Zani granted him conditional bail, prohibiting him from going within one mile of any airport in the UK.



https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...-a4260006.html


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