Funniest thing this month...

I really laughed over this one. Maybe there's still hope for the English...

Times Online - Britain. WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail...What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement...

...Protesters conceded that mounting the operation after lunch may not have been the best plan. “The violence was instant,” Jon Beresford, 39, an electrical engineer from Nottingham, said. “They grabbed us and started kicking and punching. Then when we were on the floor they tried to push huge filing cabinets on top of us to crush us.”

I love it! I love it! Crushing them with filing cabinets! (Considering the mental processes of the type of pathetic creatures who join Greenpeace, "huge filing cabinets" probably means somebody's in-box or a pencil-drawer.)

...They made their way to the trading floor, blowing whistles and sounding fog horns, encountering little resistance from security guards. Rape alarms were tied to helium balloons to float to the ceiling and create noise out of reach. The IPE conducts “open outcry” trading where deals are shouted across the pit. By making so much noise, the protesters hoped to paralyse trading.

But they were set upon by traders, most of whom were under the age of 25. “They were kicking and punching men and women indiscriminately,” a photographer said. “It was really ugly, but Greenpeace did not fight back.”...

So, they break in and violently disrupt things, then become "non-violent" and let themselves be beat up? Which chapter of Gandhi For Dummies is that in? Ludicrous.

(Thanks to Juddblog)