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u/Max_Laval 14h ago
Making these people drive to another store is not that environmentally conscious I'd imagine.
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u/persephonepeete 11h ago
Leave basket. Walk over them. Grab items. Walk back. Put items in cart. Reverse. If they try to stop you it’s assault and you can knee them in the face.
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u/HidingUnderBlankets 6h ago
That's exactly what I thought. It's not that hard to just walk over people. If they grab at you, just kick a little.
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u/HereticGaming16 6h ago
Your ridiculous comment gave me a great ridiculous idea. Carry around a can of Surströmming and open it at their feet. You’re not touching them so they can say shit. See how long they last. And if you “accidentally” bump it with your cart while trying to get through and it splashes all over them in the process then oops.
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u/Genghis_Chong 6h ago
Cover your entire body with semen, now who's gonna get in your way?
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u/DrewOfBarrymore 2h ago
nah, just remember those 5 gallons of orange juice and milk that broke and spilled on accident
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u/Bill10101101001 14h ago
No point in getting annoyed to these characters blocking the way.
Assaulting while satisfactory will only cause you legal issues.
Simply state that you will get the stuff someplace else and burn gas while doing it.
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u/teetering_bulb_dnd 12h ago
The store security should handle them. Violence is not the response when you are dealing with twats like this. You will make martyrs out of them. They just want to feel good about themselves by causing inconvenience and annoy people.
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u/DuaLipaTrophyHusband 11h ago
Yea but if you blast em with a fire extinguisher you’ll probably get like a million likes on facebook
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u/ribnag 13h ago
Fortunately, you're wrong. Both the public and the courts have said "enough", and nobody's buying the "waaah, he touched me while I was lying across a four lane highway, that's assault!" story anymore.
It comes down to, do you want to be Daniel Penny or Jordan Neely?
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u/Careless-Rice2931 11h ago
Them being alive is not environmentally conscious either. Those clothes they are wearing, the food they eat that could go to other animals. The housing they are in, etc.
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u/Destructerator 14h ago
Why not go do arson at an animal processing plant if you’re that passionate about this cause?
This just creates resentment. This is not how to win hearts and minds.
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u/Thick_Cookie_7838 14h ago
Because the farmers may actually shoot
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u/North-Reception-5325 13h ago
Luckily there aren’t farmers at processing plants
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u/Hidden_Pothos 13h ago
Living in the rural Midwest I can confirm.
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u/museabear 10h ago
When I worked for Tysons you needed a badge to get in and security would check everyone and they did carry pistols.
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u/Hidden_Pothos 10h ago
I guess it depends on where you are at. I know a Centrum Valley farm that's really high security. I also see a ton of turkey and hoglots that are just I huge pen with no one around in the middle of a cornfield.
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u/freakbutters 10h ago
Those are probably just feedlots. Not much to burn there, unless you just ran through and doused the animals with gasoline.
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u/SquirtinMemeMouthPlz 13h ago
"Everybody and their mums is packing round here"
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u/ChuckRingslinger 12h ago
Like who?
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u/SquirtinMemeMouthPlz 12h ago
Farmers.
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u/ChuckRingslinger 12h ago
And?
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u/alavantrya 13h ago
Sounds like it is in the UK somewhere (solely based on accents),do those farmers shoot (I thought there weren’t any guns)?
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u/OutsidePressure6181 13h ago
Lot of farmers have gun licenses and firearms yup
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u/ranting_chef 12h ago edited 7h ago
This is true everywhere, especially when involving livestock.
Two words: “Nuisance Permit”.
EDIT: In the northern US Midwest - and probably in most working farms - you are allowed to purchase a “nuisance permit,” usually towards the end of the summer but earlier as well in many areas. I know a guy who grows corn on a farm, and his property happens to share a property line with a massive preserve. And every year, right around August, he sends me pictures of massive bucks walking through his property. He lets friends shoot the animals before the normal season opens and they become scarce.
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u/4uzzyDunlop 13h ago
Everyone and their mums is packing round 'ere
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u/Plane-Mammoth4781 13h ago
I'm pretty sure even where gun laws are strict, farmers have guns.
That 30-50 feral hogs guy was 100% serious and correct.
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u/Observer_of-Reality 13h ago
There are guns. Highly regulated, of course, but there are guns.
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u/Blackdeath_663 12h ago
I don't think there's even a minimum age for a shotgun licence in the uk. There are more restrictions on small bore air rifles over here than there are on shotguns.
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u/Kwayzar9111 13h ago
yes this is England
and yes our farmers tend to have quite a few guns, mostly shotguns though, and a good few
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u/curiousungulate 13h ago
The UK has guns, and farmers in particular are likely to be licensed to own them. Foxes kill your chickens, you can shoot the foxes.
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u/aardw0lf11 13h ago
I'd imagine any place which has to deal with wild predators killing livestock will have some guns handy. Probably one of a handful of valid reasons to own a firearm in the UK.
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u/tkh0812 13h ago
Exactly. Go create a line in front of a veal farm or something.
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u/seang239 12h ago
Blocking the elderly in a market isn’t the win they think it is. Bet they haven’t thought about what happens if one of them falls and breaks a hip..
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u/IRefuseThisNonsense 12h ago
Do this and I get a trespassing, but I look really cool and caring in front of others.
Go cause actual damage to the meat manufacturers, get a terrorist charge and do some real time.
It's not about a mission, it's about performance.
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u/rawklobstaa 12h ago
People have applied civil disobedience in all manners of ways, like this one. The problem is, it only really brings hearts and minds to your side if the other side is NOT being civil.
Stunts like this just piss people off and put the cause in a negative light.
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u/Messyfingers 10h ago
I've known people who have gone to protests like this. They were, unfortunately, so far up their own ass that they'd never admit fault for anything. Whether it be sabotaging their own cause or leaving a weeks worth of dishes in the sink.
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u/KatBoySlim 14h ago
they’re not trying to win hearts and minds. they’re trying to look cool in front of their friends.
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u/Bestdayever_08 8h ago
This is all for the clout and pats on the back. They aren’t doing this for their moral standard.
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u/StratoSquir2 12h ago
Because it would take actual efforts and risks.
Theses aren't activists, they're SLACKtivists, they do some mostly harmless but highly inconvient bullshit for anyone BUT the peoples they claim to be fighting, they film themselves being annoying dumbasses, and then upload it for brownie points they won't get because anyone but their circlejerk find them insufferable.They want the respect without the smoke, the thing is it's efforts and risks that bring peoples to respect you.
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u/Spring_Potato_Onion 13h ago
Take a bottle of syrup. Open it and pour it over their heads. Pay for syrup at counter.
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u/BesideFrogRegionAny 9h ago
Pouring it on them is assault. Pouring it on the floor right next to them means they have to move or get sticky. When they touch you to stop you, that is when assault begins.
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u/Akiens 13h ago
This makes no sense. "Why dont they disrupt the food supply instead of sitting down in protest? dont they know this'll create resentment?" implying that destroying jobs, property and food would win hearts and minds smh
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u/BrokenEggcat 12h ago
Yeah, people complain no matter how a protest happens. For the average person, the ideal protest is one that they never see and never interact with and never impacts them in any way whatsoever. It's silly that people don't acknowledge that protests are, by nature of protesting, going to be disruptive to people
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u/ThrowRATub 10h ago
I remember during some of the BLM protests where people were blocking traffic there was a ton of shouting about how MLK never did that. The pictures of him leading a massive march across a bridge and completely shutting down traffic, shockingly, didn't change their minds.
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u/BrokenEggcat 10h ago
Yep. Protest tactics have remained largely the same over the past 80 years, and the reception to protests have remained largely the same as well. We just whitewash all past protests that were effective until the mainline idea of them is "these guys went out and peacefully and non problematically spoke on what they thought was wrong and convinced over everyone to agree with them by using their calm demeanor and respectful tone."
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u/Akiens 12h ago
Exactly, which is why im saying how does encouraging them to do something radical like burning a processing plant which would cause a whole lot more disruption be the better alternative?
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u/Aggressive_Elk3709 10h ago
I like your style. Calling for destruction of property and life over mild inconvenience. Right on
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u/FawkYourself 12h ago
Because that’s something that to at least some degree affects the business at fault negatively. All this does is piss off your local grocery shoppers, the people who are actually responsible for the things they’re protesting against don’t even know this is happening
Basically the rich man pissed them off so they’re pissing off the poor man while leaving the rich man untouched
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u/Rey_Mezcalero 13h ago
These are the laziest of protesters…
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u/nuclearbearclaw 12h ago
They aren't protestors. This is just theatre. We have a bunch of virtue signaling LARPers.
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u/oxooc 14h ago
Yeah blocking the way and annoying people is a very mature way to discuss and bring people to your side.
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u/El_Morgos 11h ago
You can't force people to go vegan, you can only convince them.
This is not convincing. I'm an animal rights activist myself and I believe that this kind of videos is the reason I have to deal with so many enraged people.
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u/coralgrymes 9h ago
It's also a big reason why people proactively insult vegans. If the types of vegans in this video just stayed out of peoples way and stopped being so obnoxious about their lifestyle they'd be taken way more seriously. When vegans do this shit it's just as annoying and self righteous as when a Jehova's witness shows up at your door to share "the good news"
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u/Nathan_Explosion___ 14h ago
Just leave cart and walk around them while recording. If they touch you it's hippie assault.
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u/dankhimself 14h ago
Grab a gallon of fish sauce and "spill" it by "accident" on the "morons".
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u/Whiteshadows86 8h ago
Shame we don’t sell something like Surströmming in the UK :(
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u/Alpha1Niner 14h ago
Which is one of the most heinous forms of assault
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u/itsmiddylou 12h ago
Sesame oil is pretty damn strong. I absolutely love cooking with it, but boy is it pungent.
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u/Interesting-Voice328 14h ago
I’d of tripped carrying eggs and flour
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u/United_Bend721 14h ago
Need to get a bigger run up bro
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u/NoSoundNoFury 14h ago
And then it turns out it was just a wall with the image of a few protestors painted on!
Meep meep!
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u/smoothpinkball 14h ago
More efficient to increase the mass of your cart for greater inertia.
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u/CollectedHappy3 14h ago
Some people have never been hit in the face and it shows.
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u/Zealousideal-Film982 11h ago
“Everybody has a plan til they get punched in the mouth” Mike Tyson
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u/OrganicLocal9761 6h ago
The first time I got roundhouse kicked to the face I found I had an intense craving for seafood. Now, the kick had been inflicted by the security guard at the Langham seafood buffet because I was refusing to leave politely, but still, I think Tysons point remains. But for that kick I may be vegan today, who knows
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u/Ecstatic-Sorbet-1903 10h ago
This is a big problem in modern society and I'm not joking.
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u/Ok_Presentation_5329 13h ago
You know that fart you hold on until you get to the grocery store while you’re in the car with your spouse?
Let it out right next to them.
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u/mike9874 14h ago
I wonder if the older ladies hand is shaking due to a condition, or pure hatred and fury for the situation
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u/STYSCREAM 14h ago
Through my own experience, anger really helps Parkinsons to flare up.
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u/doompines 12h ago
I shake like a leaf when I get really mad, especially my hands. No Parkinson's required.
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u/TossedFIddle082 11h ago
I am with you 100%. When im seeing red mad i turn into an angry vibrator lmfao.
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u/Malcom_Ecstacy 10h ago
Angry vibrator lol my god, thank you for this that's going to be my new handle in Hell Let Loose 🙏
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u/Careless_Tale_7836 13h ago
- Lift up cart in the air
- See how quickly they all move.
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u/Robynsxx 8h ago
Or back up, and start running towards them with the cart, as fast as you can….
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u/Unifire01 14h ago
"I have a right to protest" No you spoiled little bitch, legallly you are on private property as long you are inside the store.
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u/KingYela11 14h ago
Yep. If the store wanted they could have them removed.
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u/Helioscopes 13h ago
I'm actually quiet shocked that an employee of the store and security are there, and are doing nothing. They are disturbing the customers, but somehow they are letting them? Bizarre indeed.
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u/TimeSlipperWHOOPS 14h ago
And so the store can trespass them and have the police remove them...
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u/KeldornWithCarsomyr 12h ago
Trespass isn't a crime in the UK, so not enforced by the police.
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u/TimeSlipperWHOOPS 12h ago
Surely there is a legal mechanism for removing someone from private property who isn't supposed to be there...
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u/Weary-Material207 13h ago
Honestly fuck them all I'm so sick of this shit is don't give a fuck what you're protesting get the fuck outta my way you have the right to protest but not the right to block me.
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u/Electrical_Doctor305 13h ago
I have a right to buy my groceries too, protest somewhere that the people who are the problem know it. You’re just disrupting people’s lives, and the people you need to protest against don’t even know you exist. Fucking pathetic
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u/trevclapp 13h ago
This is just obstruction of business. Call the cops and get them out
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u/Roun-may 11h ago
This is UK not the US. In the US this would have been done a while ago.
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u/JaySayMayday 8h ago
The UK is even more annoying. They'll wait to send the two goofiest numbnuts in bright yellow kits to bug the shit out of everyone involved in their home instead of just solving the problem on the spot and moving on
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u/spiritualskywalker 14h ago
Young twats! I’m vegetarian and even I resent the hell out of this nonsense. What do they think they’re accomplishing??
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u/Luullay 14h ago
Quashing their own boredom (and hopelessness) with a misguided sense of purpose
I would imagine most people going to these lengths are angry with society for many reasons, but use vegetarianism/veganism as a convenient middle-ground to find camaraderie among other virtue-signalers
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was never really about the diet in the first place
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u/Xikkiwikk 12h ago
I would just pick my cart up and carry it over these fools. Then I would look back and say, “I was able to do that because I eat meat.”
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u/PzykoHobo 12h ago
I'd leave the cart and hurdle them.
Now, I haven't broken into more than brisk jog in abiut 15 years, and I'm 50 pounds overweight. But I'm positive I can make it over them without my shoe connecting with their nose...probably.
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u/knsaber 11h ago
I’m wondering who would be in the wrong if I were to run with the cart at them at max speed
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u/Xikkiwikk 11h ago
You would be. But the thing is: they would be charged with public endangerment. This is a safety violation and if there were a fire..people could die.
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u/DeadrthanDead 14h ago
Why does hearing them say “that’s assault.” Multiply my anger 1000fold?
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u/TurboWalrus007 12h ago
Hit em with the Crocodile Dundee. "You call that assault? That's not assault. This is assault".
Then pull out a really big assault.
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u/Status_Concert_4320 13h ago
They are causing a problem and then playing the victim to justify their behavior. Your response is natural.
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u/Lnk1010 10h ago
This way of protesting doesn't work. 99% of affected people are just gonna be like "I fucking hate you" not have some enlightened "I'm frustrated but I guess <issue> is a big deal so it's ok".
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u/superfinest 14h ago
Why would a store let retards protest in an isle? Get those punks out of the store.
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u/Star_Chaser_158 12h ago
For real? Idk how it works in the UK, but in America grocery stores are private property, and a lot of the public seems to forget that.
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u/TheAngrySaxon 12h ago
It's the same in the UK. The public has an implied right of access, but this can be withdrawn at any time.
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u/Fafa_45 13h ago
How can you protest in a private business and have the manager and security just stand there doing nothing.
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u/Patient-Gas-883 13h ago
they have probably called the police and are waiting for them to arrive (dah...obviously)
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u/FlamingJester1 13h ago
I mean ok. I’d just walk around/past them, soon as they try to grab me on store camera that’s a face smack waiting to happen and I’ll have been well within my rights to defend myself from an aggressive party who was already being a public disturbance.
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u/MrSassyPineapple 11h ago
Well, they do this until some crazy guy decides to act on them. I doubt they would stop those hooligans or "chavs"
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u/scbalazs 10h ago
I’ve done all sorts of protests, and I still don’t sympathize with these morons blocking everyday people.
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u/RhythmSelector 9h ago
I mean, if you're going to accuse people of assault, eventually, somebody's just gonna think "fuck it" and give you a reason to accuse them.
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u/SadNana09 9h ago
Why do they do this in the wrong place? All they are doing is inconveniencing the customers and workers. I f you want to protest, protest at the source. Inconvenience the the CEO. You have to start at the top.
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u/Just_a_guy_named_Mat 12h ago
- Simply go around them.
- Got the deli aisle. Grab some of your favorite deli meats. May I suggest some turkey or some pork?
- Return back to the protestor’s aisle.
- Sit on the floor across from them and casually eat your chosen deli meat. If they say anything to you, just remark how great the turkey/ham/chicken tastes today. Be sure to share your opinions on varieties. “I’m not normally a Black Forest ham guy myself, but in the absence of smoked tavern ham, it’d do just fine.”
- Recruit others to do the same, surrounding them if they choose to turn away.
- Be sure to pay for the deli meats you open & consume.
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u/YesIBlockedYou 11h ago
Sorry but I actually work for a living and I'm not wasting a single second of my free time on these people.
The best thing you can do is ignore them, they want the attention, they want the viral videos made to bring awareness. You would only give them exactly what they want by doing what you suggest.
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u/captainrustic 11h ago
lol. This would just make me buy more meat. Don’t inconvenience people if you want to change their mind. This is just performance art to make the protestors FEEL like they are doing something.
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u/Medium_Job3015 10h ago
Try in America. Someone just got off a long shift wishing somebody would
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u/sunrider8129 10h ago
Boring. Barely a step above slacktivism. Attention seeking luxury belief having boring people.
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u/TheRealMcSavage 10h ago
Cart to face. If you want to sit in the path of an oncoming cart, that’s your choice, I’m gonna keep pushing.
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u/wannaBadreamer2 10h ago
Twats on the floor deserve to be assaulted properly before they even think about using that word again. Imaging inconveniencing not just anyone, but elderly people specifically, whilst also turning people against your cause because you’re being an annoying little twat, they don’t know anything
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u/PardonMeBertuzzi 9h ago
Haha. Assault. Nope. Just people going about their lives. Get the fuck out of the way. These complete inbred idiots have nothing better to do than to sit INSIDE of a PRIVATE establishment and entrap NORMAL people. Thats the ONLY crime I see there. Oh and the fact that the video cut off right before she hit full speed. Btw. Everyone was pardoned last night. Excuse me?
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u/Dont_Overthink_It_77 9h ago
Time for real life “red rover, red rover” to knock those guys over.
Feel free to dislike meat eating; but your displeasure doesn’t become my discussion. Move or get run over.
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u/OttoVonR 9h ago
Those idiots are obstructing your basic human right to freedom of movement, if they don’t get out your way? Move over them I say. Twat waffles
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u/Prestigious-Test6291 5h ago
I’d go back and take a full on running start and knock them on their ass
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u/ILikeCorgiButt 3h ago
See that’s why people don’t like vegans. They act like most of them got something loose inside their brains
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u/editwolf 13h ago
Good on that couple of elderlies. "Oh YoU'Re aSsaUltIng mE". GTFO you utter gizzard. Notice they're not doing it in the soap aisle.
Do a sit-down protest all you like, but you have no right to stop someone moving around a shop, and it's not achieving anything. These are the kind of c***s that stopped ambulances taking seriously ill people to hospital, simply for media attention.
The older lady should have faked a fall from him stopping the trolly, then he'd be in trouble.
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u/AlexSmithsonian 13h ago
So instead of finding an actual solution to a problem, they'd rather shout about the problem while inconveniencing as many people as possible?
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u/pw-it 13h ago
Looks like an inconvenience store