Extinction Rebellion Fire Hose - funniest thing

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Has anyone seen this?

Possibly one of the funniest things I've ever seen. It's like a comedy 😂😂

m.youtube.com/watch?v=tHJ7Zn8Sa0E

Overpopulation is not a good thing, but the planet cannot cope with even 2 billion with Western Europe/US levels of consumption. How many people should we get rid of exactly?

The planet will decide.

People will always pick the pieces to suit their own viewpoint, always the way.

Straw man to suggest getting rid of people that are already here.

I can fly to wherever I like because...(insert spurious reasons here)

Ad nauseum.

Don't complain about the climate for your grandchildren that don't yet exist. People are not essential to the survival of the planet.

We'll all be on Mars in 300 years time anyway.

This is hilarious.
Absolute tools

It’s ridiculous really

They have hired a fire engine, so fuel being used, sprayed water and dye, so waste of water and I bet the dye isn’t environmentally friendly, and then vandalised a building...but failed

Yes.

Well done

How did I miss this?! That's hilarious.

They clear expected the fire hose to be like a normal garden hose you'd use for sprinkling your dahlias. Tossers.

I guess they're too young to have watched London's Burning. If they'd seen it they'd see that it needs a fair few hunky fire fighters to hold the hose still. Idiots.

Some poor sod on minimum wage will probably have to clean that up. Over priveleged dickheads with too much time on their hands clearly.

If you can find it some wag has added the Benny Hill Show theme, tis most excellent 🤪

Please can you post a link - I’d love to see that.

It's only beetroot juice and water. Biodegradable and it was all washed off quite quickly.

I do generally sympathise with the aims and aspirations of Extinction Rebellion, even if I privately think the stunts are silly, but Jesus. That was pure comedy gold.

A friend of a friend is a volunteer firefighter and was working in the building today. He said to the colleague next to him:

"That's not how you hold a fire hose! It's going to.. oh! There it goes! So yeah, it's going to do exactly that!!"

Where do you get your hands on that volume of beetroot juice?!

Obviously I know that it's mixed with water but still!

Also, someone could have got seriously injured if that hose had whacked someone around the head when it came off.

Is it really beetroot juice?
It looks too orange.

Whatever their motivations and reasoning, that is very funny

PeterRouse - exactly what DH said (retired Firefighter).

How do you go about hiring a Fire Engine? Why the hell are Fire Engines provided out of the public purse being hired out to randoms who are NOT fire fighters? How did that manage to get through the usual Health and Safety, Insurance, etc., etc., requirements? Can anyone just rock up to the local Fire Station and take an engine out for a spin and put dye in the water?

It's only beetroot juice and water. Biodegradable and it was all washed off quite quickly.

Beetroot juice stains especially on porous surfaces, and so they wasted water in the mixture and water to wash it off, how very environmentally friendly.

Yes, how were they allowed to not only have the fire engine, but also put dye in the water tank and use the hose, presumably without any training/risk assessment/checks? Surely it's an insurance nightmare?

Ah. Vladimir. Glad you could attend.....

Many of you are being embarrassingly obvious.

I came back to watch this again. Still hilarious 😂They really do walk among us

Shot themselves in the foot there 🙄

It is obviously not a vehicle that's still in commission. It's a decommissioned fire engine and you can even - gasp! - hire them yourself, should you wish, for weddings, fairs and parties to drive around and amaze your guests while real engines with real crew head to emergencies. Honestly people, come on, use your critical thinking skills here. They're not taking real fire engines off the road and letting people die.

These asshats are blocking Westminster at several points next week, so be aware if you're working round there.

Oh and they were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.

I'd say they were bloody lucky to get away from that without anyone having a cracked skull or broken back. Charged fire hoses under pressure are very heavy, hard to hold, and notoriously dangerous. There is a reason you have to be trained to use them. I'm shocked that you can actually hire them out. Watching someone trying to catch a flailing hose without cutting the flow at the hydrant is like a real time demonstration of Darwinism......

Did they not realize that

a, you need training in how to operate one of those hoses

b. it takes more than one or two people to hold it.