Just Not Cricket

[Ken4155]

The JSO mob are at it again;


https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/other/breaking-just-stop-oil-protester-storms-onto-twickenham-pitch-to-bring-final-to-a-halt/ar-AA1bLOin?ocid=msedgntp&;cvid=a456210adb464c82a4d5e21a7385e25e&;ei=60

[bhg481]

I wonder if they'd dare try it at a football match; football fans aren't quite so docile as rugby fans.

[douglas9401]

Can one protester "storm" anything?

A bit breathless and sensationalising.

[Old_Geezer]

Until there is an effective penalty for such activity there is no incentive for them to stop, and it, and maybe worse, will continue.

[Bobbisox1]

Water cannon every time

[New Judge]

Leave a few of the team members to "encourage" him to leave the pitch.

[webbo3]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-gp-interrupts-premiership-rugby-8476085

\\Dr Patrick Hart, 37, a GP from Bristol and Sam Johnson, 40, a construction worker from Essex. Dr Patrick Hart said in a pre-prepared statement: “I am doing this because it’s my duty as a doctor. The climate crisis is the greatest health crisis humanity has ever faced. People are dying now and more will die every day unless we stop new oil, gas and coal.//

How much oil does this construction worker use and how many products used in medicine are oil based

[DTCwordfan]

and how did they get to Twickenham - I seriously doubt they walked all the way. what pratts.

[Ken4155]

I believe it would take a very brave person to do this sort of thing at a football match. Streakers are one thing - and, if they're female, the majority of fans wouldn't mind - but football fans are a very volatile lot at the best of times.
Mind you, the FA Cup final isn't that far away................................

[kuiperbelt]

OG\Until there is an effective penalty\

How effective must it be. More than 3 years??

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/21/just-stop-oil-protesters-jailed-for-dartford-crossing-protest

[New Judge]

//How effective must it be. More than 3 years??//

Yes, considerably more than that. A person sentenced to 3 years' custody will serve a little over 13 months inside, so no deterrent whatsoever. Whatever opinion these cranks have, they should not endanger the safety of other people. The idiots climbing the Dartford Bridge not only endangered themselves (for which I have no particular concern) but they jeopardised the safety of many people using the bridge. And that's before the inconvenience caused to thousands is taken into account, and before it is realised that stopping four lanes of motorway traffic causes more environmental harm than simply allowing the vehicles to continue unimpeded.

These people seem to have acquired a mental illness and the remarks of the Good Doctor mentioned above suggest he should seek immediate help from one of his colleagues who is experienced in treating delusional behaviour.

[Deskdiary]

I was at the game with my 14 years old boy (who is in the Saracens academy - not that means anything other than I’m immensely proud), and the thing that irritates the bejesus out of me is that they’re so bloody arrogant and self-entitled that they think these ridiculous stunts mean anything. They do not.

As they were being marched off the field, which wasn’t shown on the TV, was the fans unanimously having a go at them.

The Tristans and Jacindas need to know the vast vast majority think they are idiots. Which they are.

[retrocop]

Committed to the Crown Court.!
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/just-stop-oil-activists-court-125203045.html.
Could mean a GP won't be practising for a while. I wonder if his patients will miss him should he get a hefty sentence to deter les autres. Won't hold my breath. :-(

[youngmafbog]

He wont, as we have seen before some members of the Judiciary are in line with the protestors.

Sadly we do not elect judges and cant remove the bad apples who cannot remain impartial.

It will of course end in someone getting seriously hurt. Just waiting for some idiots to disrupt a Millwall game, that may wake them up.

[drmorgans]

Millwall's proud claim is "everybody hates us / we don't care", which Just Stop Oil protesters might happily adopt.

[CoolBritannia]

"Just waiting for some idiots to disrupt a Millwall game"

Exactly what I am hoping for !

[New Judge]

//Committed to the Crown Court.!//

But it isn't clear who made the decision, retro.

Criminal Damage where the value is greater than £5,000 is an "Either Way" offence, meaning it can be tried in either the Magistrates' Court or the Crown Court. The initial decision on the venue is made by the Magistrates. If they believe the matter is too serious for their court, they commit the defendant to the Crown Court for trial and the defendant cannot override that decision. However, if they decide to retain the case, the defendant then has the right to elect trial before judge and jury (and if they do, that is their right and the court cannot override it).

Most of the eco-looneys elect Crown Court trial in an attempt to frustrate the Criminal Justice System.

[retrocop]

NJ
It's a chancer though. If the idiots elect trial by jury and they don't have a sympathetic jury it could back fire on them especially, as I understand it, the total cost of damage and clear up costs are yet to be assessed and were unavailable to be given by the prosecution to the magistrate (s)

[New Judge]

Yes quite true, retro. But these nutjobs don't seem to think in the same way as rational people do. They see their cause as paramount above all else. The damage must have been assessed as being more than £5,000 for the court to have declared it "Either way" but I must say I am surprised to see that value put on it. As far as I know they simply chucked some orange powder on the pitch.