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So, here's an interesting article. Something our friends in England ought to be wary about. Be ever vigilant against terror, friends, because if you can't trust Batman.. who can you trust?


http://newsbox.msn.co.uk/article.aspx?as=article&ae=windows-1252&f=uk_-_olgbtopnews&t=11881&id=258989&d=20041016&do=http://newsbox.msn.co.uk&i=http://newsbox.msn.co.uk/mediaexportlive&ks=0&mc=5&lc=en

16/10/2004 2:30:56 PM ( Source: Reuters)

Fathers' activists scale rollercoaster

By Katie AllenLONDON (Reuters) - The fathers' rights group behind a security breach at Buckingham Palace said campaigners scaled a rollercoaster in the seaside resort of Blackpool dressed as Batman and The Hulk. Police were trying to get Rory Wilmer and Colin Wallace down from the 70-metre (230 feet) high "Big One" ride after they climbed up mid-morning with the intention of staying all day, the campaign group Fathers 4 Justice said on Saturday.

Matt O'Connor, who founded the group two years ago, said such actions were helping to make its cause heard."The tide is unstoppable. It is definitely working," O'Connor told Reuters, referring to his group's campaign for a change in the law to include a presumption of equality of child access rights between divorcing parents.

The group has fast grown into a militant force. Last month, a campaigner dressed as Batman caused a major security breach, when he evaded police to scale the front wall of Buckingham Palace.
In May, two group members pelted Prime Minister Tony Blair with flour-filled condoms in parliament.


Soo... this is kinda... yeah. Anyway, couldn't those condoms have been filled with anthrax or what? Feel free to fearmonger.

Dude wtf

Dude wtf
My reaction exactly. It's funny and scary all at once.... but it's a good cause, I guess. Right?

what.the.flying.****.?!?!?!?!

The mentioned events aren't terrorism, but the one about the flour-bombs, and buckingham palace show vulnerability to terrorism.

The mentioned events aren't terrorism, but the one about the flour-bombs, and buckingham palace show vulnerability to terrorism.
True, and I'm sure they're breaking a variety of other laws. I just put the terrorism thing up to get attention. LOOK AT ME, DAMMIT! Admittedly, "Batman and the Hulk Invade amusement park" may have been effective, too. However, here's a more important question: if these guys are arrested, do they have to go to jail dressed like that? And if so... damn!

True, and I'm sure they're breaking a variety of other laws. I just put the terrorism thing up to get attention. LOOK AT ME, DAMMIT! Admittedly, "Batman and the Hulk Invade amusement park" may have been effective, too. However, here's a more important question: if these guys are arrested, do they have to go to jail dressed like that? And if so... damn!

I don't think anyone would really get a jail sentence for those things (but I don't know)

roffles anthrax

I don't think anyone would really get a jail sentence for those things (but I don't know)
Not a sentence, necessarily, but if you're charged with something, even if it doesn't bring a prison sentence with it, I believe you're taken to the police station for fingure printing etc. and you'll be in a jail cell for a while. Few hours, overnight maybe, whatever. And do you really want to be in there with the other criminals dressed like batman? (Thinking of Adam West... yech.)

Anyway, couldn't those condoms have been filled with anthrax or what? Feel free to fearmonger.

Of course they could have. But they weren't. Actually, this group has performed a major public service by pointing up the holes in the security of the Palace and Parliament.

Of course they could have. But they weren't. Actually, this group has performed a major public service by pointing up the holes in the security of the Palace and Parliament.

Yeah, but the fox hunting ban protestors did the same thing only a month later.

Yeah, but the fox hunting ban protestors did the same thing only a month later.

Yup. And what conclusions can you draw from that?

Yup. And what conclusions can you draw from that?

That security there is so lax that I may as well assasinate Blair by pretending to be the tea-lady. An inside source tells me they tend to be over-zealous in the "equal rights" employment programme, and since my skin is brown I'm a shoe-in.

terrorism is a tactic that uses peoples fear to influence their enemies into surrender.

this is at the best public menace.

Anyway, couldn't those condoms have been filled with anthrax or what?

That was the original fear, and parliament was shut for several hours until they could determine what the powder was.

These guys were just protesting, highlighting an important issue which has a great deal of public support in a manner that doesn't upset anyone (except maybe the police who has to get them back down! or Mr Blair who has to get his suit dry-cleaned!)

So...

...am I the only one who thinks climbing a roller coaster dressed like Batman and the Hulk is totally awesome?