Woman driving at protesters

[ivykaty44]

The woman driving at protestors this week in the news, in a range rover that it turns out, isn’t taxed, hasn’t got a valid MOT & therefore insurance

Should have it impounded as she’s driving it illegally to take her son to school AIBU to think you can’t driving round illegally and then shout at protestors blocking the road - regardless of the rights or wrongs of the protestors or how annoying she may find them

Yeah that's insicive

Belle - everyone? Surely it doesn't anger everyone as much as you

Every other thread has had around 98% of people saying xr and ib are awful.

How does it help to reduce carbon emissions by blocking roads though? Surely an idling car engine is producing emissions? Therefore by causing road jams they are causing more pollution? As you now have cars not going anywhere with the engine running.
So their protests about saving the planet don't really work. How many of them are on the beaches at weekend picking up plastic? How many of them clear up after themselves? I bet the tube of glue they used got thrown into the bushes.
It's the hypocrisy I hate most.

Yes! In the same piece as the doctor said that one person in an ambulance was acceptable collateral damage an other speaker said that the traffic jams caused had put another 30 years - I went back and checked that too - 30 years worth of pollution into the air.

I think that 'fact' was repeated during a discussion about space tourism and it's pollutiuon levels too.

How does it help to reduce carbon emissions by blocking roads though?

It doesn't. But the thing about fanatics is they believe any means justify the end result. So, causing unnecessary extra air pollution, no problem. Someone ends up missing their medical appointment, no problem. An ambulance can't get through, no problem. Kids miss school, no problem. Apparently they do have a problem when someone nudges a car into them though, so really, they could up their game a bit.

A man tied an insulate Britain protester to railings using his own protest banner today. Excellent.

Belle, that's still not everyone, and you don't have to be a supporter of xr and ib to think the woman using the car as a weapon was crazy. Not everyone lives in such a car centric world as you.

@ufucoffee

A man tied an insulate Britain protester to railings using his own protest banner today. Excellent.

Lol. The modern day equivalent of being hoist by your own petard!

Fair play to her.

If insulate Britain want to force my landlord to properly insulate my garage and therefore make my ground floor warmer then all they need is my address. No idea what the m25 has to do with it 😂

Mmm, dunno, could it be both are connected to climate change

Re the Twitter link

If Diana Warner decided to do something about climate change in October 2018, why didn’t she pass the message on about the governments free £5000 you could claim to help with insulating your home instead of asking the government for something that was in offer already that was eventually withdrawn because of the lack of uptake.

Not everyone lives in such a car centric world as you.

What you mean rural? Someone's gotta live in houses. They're already here. Bit wasteful for us to move to the overpopulated city.

Or are you referring to my dependents mobility issues?

So sorry.🤨

I'd have to change my username to BelleOfTheCIty. Now that would be a hardship.

Belle no not just rural, plenty of people live in cities without cars

The last time I ever drove, ds2 was seriously ill in the car beside me. I was 2 miles from the hospital and the ambulance was going to take too long. He was unconscious by the time I dumped my car, keys still in so it could be moved from the ambulance bay.

If I'd have come across those protesters I'd have flattened the lot of them to get my son to hospital. They need dragging away immediately every single time they do this. There are ways to protest without risking others lives.

@FourTeaFallOut

How does it help to reduce carbon emissions by blocking roads though?

It doesn't. But the thing about fanatics is they believe any means justify the end result. So, causing unnecessary extra air pollution, no problem. Someone ends up missing their medical appointment, no problem. An ambulance can't get through, no problem. Kids miss school, no problem. Apparently they do have a problem when someone nudges a car into them though, so really, they could up their game a bit.

I am really struggling not to agree with this.

I mean, it's obviously not ok to nudge people with your Range Rover but if it were my mum having the stroke I would gladly drive back and forward over their sanctimonious faces.

I really do know this is not an ethical position but there we are.

And I am rural.

I am sure people in cities with good transport links don't need cars. It doesn't make cars less of a necessity for those who do need them. I mean, there's no actual pavement in a mile either direction where I live. My nearest tube is 50+ miles. No foldable bike or handy scooter is going to solve that conundrum.

The rural people, including the farmers who grow your food need transport.

No she shouldn’t have an illegal car but some action should be taken against the protesters who are stopping everyone else going about their own business

Really dont understand why the police can't just drag the idiots off the road.

Really haven't got any sympathy for the woman sat in front of the car. If she doesnt want to be pushed by the car- she should move out the way.

If we can clarify that firstly, the woman didn't drive at anyone then this will become a more reasonable debate.

Other than that these people have disrupted people who've got very big hopes of normality returning after 18 months of horrific living. They've stopped ambulances, they've had a ladyin tears trying to get her husband to a much needed medical appointment, they've stopped people who probably have businesses on the bones of their arse getting to work. How dare they? And shame on anyone who judges the woman who takes it personally when she's trying to get her son to school. She's got places to be and quite honestly I still don't know what the clear objective is of these protestors. Not a tinkers sausage what the point or the message is. So we'll done them for causing all this chaos and not really getting the message across.

So who's side do I take? Of course I take the side of the woman who probably just wants to get her son to school on time (yes in her big fat lovely velar) and she probably has a gazillion other things to do today. Didn't we all?

Well quite, but her anger was not about medical emergencies.

If we can clarify that firstly, the woman didn't drive at anyone then this will become a more reasonable debate

But she did.

In the second clip in one of the Twitter links from the OP she gets in and drives forward enough to push forwards quite sharply two of the protestors who are sitting in the ground. She hits two protestors with her vehicle.

She was in a mad rage, she is not a trained stunt driver, the protestors had their backs to her. A slip of her foot or enraged misjudgment and she could have done them very serious damage.

The protestors are immoral and infuriating. The police should deal with them. But how can it be OK for anyone to deliberately drive a huge powerful vehicle into a human being?

The driver who did it was off to work, not on a hospital mercy dash.

And yet, they were sitting in the actual road

Don't want to get hit by cars? Don't piss about in the road.
This was deliberate yes. Thank god for that because I dread to think of the trauma it will cause when some poor person hits them accidentally through no fault of their own.

But how can it be OK for anyone to deliberately drive a huge powerful vehicle into a human being?

How can it be ok for protestors to block ambulances and decide that the person in the ambulance is collateral damage? While she shouldn’t have deliberately driven at them I will have no sympathy of one of the idiots gets run over. My sympathy would be with the driver.