Eco-wackos Occupy Coalmine, Get Beat Up

[CG6468]

Da widdle treehuggers get their butts kicked.

Activists attacked at Mainshill Opencast as Huge Excavator is Occupied for over 4 hours
1 Comment March 11th, 2011

On Wednesday morning activists entered Scottish Coal’s Mainshill Open Cast Coal Site in South Lanarkshire to disrupt coaling operations. As two activists managed to reach and scale a huge 260 tonne “prime mover” in the bottom of the pit, one of the two biggest machines on the site, other activists there to support them were brutally attacked by Scottish Coal employees and Trustcare Security.

The action lasted for over 4 hours before a specialist police team from Glasgow removed the people occupying the excavator, which was in the process of loading coal from the seam on to dump trucks. Police arrested four people, two of whom were only supporting the action, and all have been charged with aggravated trespass.

The poor widdle treehuggers

[true_blood]

Now that,...is ****in' awesome. That's what happens when you trespass.

[CG6468]

They're fortunate that the operators of the machinery didn't run over them - accidentally, of course. 

[thundley4]

They're fortunate that the operators of the machinery didn't run over them - accidentally, of course. 

Fiona Reed who was at Mainshill said: “We were attacked from the minute we entered the site. At no point were we confrontational or threatening, we just wanted to do the action safely so that no one got hurt. First of all huge dump trucks were deliberately driven at us and tried to box us in, then the excavator driver swung the machine’s bucket at us, blatantly disregarding all health and safety rules. Most deaths and accidents that occur on opencasts are because of how dangerous these dump trucks are. A lot of people’s lives were put at risk. We were then pounced on by workers and site security who punched us in the head repeatedly, threw us to the ground and kicked us in the back. They also stole our video camera.”

She lived to complain, the miners failed. 

[DefiantSix]

Shit.  Once again, you can't make a good parody anymore without some moonbat DUmbshit trying to act it out in real life.

Here's the parody that came to mind when I read the story:

Activists Missing After Declaring “War on Leather” at Motorcycle Rally
Posted on January 07, 2010.
Posted by Fuzzy Duffy

Johnstown, PA (GlossyNews) – Local and state police scoured the hills outside rural Johnstown, Pennsylvania, after reports of three animal rights activists going missing after attempting to protest the wearing of leather at a large motorcycle gang rally this weekend. Two others, previously reported missing, were discovered by fast food workers “duct taped inside several fast food restaurant dumpsters,” according to police officials.

“Something just went wrong,” said a still visibly shaken organizer of the protest. “Something just went horribly, horribly, wrong.”

The organizer said a group of concerned animal rights activist groups, “growing tired of throwing fake blood and shouting profanities at older women wearing leather or fur coats,” decided to protest the annual motorcycle club event “in a hope to show them our outrage at their wanton use of leather in their clothing and motor bike seats.” “In fact,” said the organizer, “motorcycle gangs are one of the biggest abusers of wearing leather, and we decided it was high time that we let them know that we disagree with them using it…ergo, they should stop.”

According to witnesses, protesters arrived at the event in a vintage 1960′s era Volkswagen van and began to pelt the gang members with balloons filled with red colored water, simulating blood, and shouting “you’re murderers” to passers by. This, evidently, is when the brouhaha began.

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“I…I was trying to show my outrage at a man with a heavy leather jacket, and he…he didn’t even care. I called him a murderer, and all he said was, ‘You can’t prove that.’ Next thing I know he forced me to ride on the back of his motorcycle all day, and would not let me off, because his girl friend was out of town and I was almost a woman.”

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[FreeBorn]

 

[Ptarmigan]

[thelaughingman]

Now that,...is ****in' awesome. That's what happens when you trespass in Scotland.

Fixed for accuracy.  Don't mess with burly, hard-workin', harder-drinkin' Scotsmen.

[dandi]

On Wednesday morning activists entered Scottish Coal’s Mainshill Open Cast Coal Site in South Lanarkshire to disrupt coaling operations. As two activists managed to reach and scale a huge 260 tonne “prime mover” in the bottom of the pit, one of the two biggest machines on the site, other activists there to support them were brutally attacked by Scottish Coal employees and Trustcare Security.

The stupid shall be punished.

[JohnnyReb]

The stupid shall be punished. crushed, smashed, quashed, just take your pick.

260 ton truck plus load = 520 tons or 1,400,000 lbs....that's heavy.

[Texacon]

I hate how this stuff gets written up.  "They were brutally attacked ..."  Yet no mention of how they agressively entered a work zone and tried to shove a video camera in somebody's face.

They got what they had coming.  I'm of the mind we should beat the shit out of people like this every single day.  Fred Phelps is no different.  IF we would man up and just beat the shit out of these folks they would think twice before they pulled this crap.

If there were a legal fund set up to protect those who were going to administer the ass whupins' you would see more of them.

KC