13 demonstrators hang from Portland bridge to block Shell ship

KATU-TV ^ | Jul 29, 2015 at 4:56 AM | KATU.com Staff

[Inspectorette]

This is ongoing as I type this - the ship is moving. There should be police up on the bridge hauling these idiots up and arresting them!

[A CA Guy]

They are causing reckless endangerment to everyone. Arrest them for sure.

[rjsimmon]

There should be police up on the bridge hauling these idiots up and arresting them!

Or maybe they could cut the ropes.

[tennmountainman]

Why haul them away?

Just cut the ropes they are hanging from.

[Dilbert San Diego]

They are trying to be human shields.

Everyone remember Rachel Corrie played cat and mouse games with a bulldozer, trying to be a human shield??

[JimRed]

Run ‘em over.

[null and void]

Or cutting them loose...

[JimRed]

Run ‘em over. Act of piracy, resist.

[null and void]

Hirsty came up from California to join the protest

Did she walk or bicycle?

Surely she didn't use any means that burned fossil fuels!

[gunnut]

Or cut them down. Arrest the “support crew” on the bridge because they are keeping others from using the bridge.

As for the ship, I suggest ramming speed.

[leprechaun9]

Target practice for our military. OH, I forgot they don’t have ammunition!

[17th Miss Regt]

They were going to use the icebreaker to free a ship full of anti-whaling protestors in the Antarctic before the ice crushed its hull and it sank. Now the protestors are going to prevent that.

Oh, well.

[smokingfrog]

Creating a hazard to navigation and criminal trespass.

Arrest them.

[knarf]

Before I drove sand can for the gas industry, I was hired to assist in hot shot.

ONE of my tasks was to use a long pole to push up power lines when a larger than average piece of machinery is driven through a residential neighborhood.

I'd be on the boats, pushing the assholes up, walking to the stern and dropping their asses as hard as I could after passing through

They never REALLY endanger themselves ...

[rktman]

Uh, doesn’t anyone in Portland have a friggin’ knife?

[Inspectorette]

What’s really infuriating is the local media, who are interviewing the protesters, treating them with kid gloves.

[smokingfrog]

[arthurus]

Pull them down into the ship and take them thence to the Arctic where they can continue their efforts on a suitable ice floe.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Let them hang there for as long as it takes. Then the cops prevent anyone else from replacing them on the ropes. Seal the area and let them come up with their tails between their legs.

[Inspectorette]

Mr. Inspectorette is having a cow watching this - he was working at Diablo Canyon back in the '80s when it was being built.

Workers had to be bussed in, and the protestors (Mothers for Peace) would lay down on the road so the busses couldn't pass. At one point, they had to be flown in on a chopper.