Tomato Soup on $84 million Van Gogh painting

[Mik]

Looked like he was going to take a whiz on them. Effective, but nonviolent.

[Renauda]

@George-K

Because they were scared. At the top of the clip he yelled - “le premier qui bouge, je l'encule"

I let you put that to the Google translator.

[George K]

@Renauda said in Tomato Soup on $84 million Van Gogh painting:

@George-K

Because they were scared. At the top of the clip he yelled - “le premier qui bouge, je l'encule"

I let you put that to the Google translator.

All righty then...

[George K]

Your feel good post of the day:

[89th]

Hahahah that is awesome. Reminds me of some protestor who clued himself to a table on a TV talk show, so they just lifted and moved the table off the set.

[Horace]

No matter how well you plan your dignified and stately protest where you recite a communist monologue, pour soup over your head, and superglue your hand to the building, something embarrassing might still happen.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Horace said in Tomato Soup on $84 million Van Gogh painting:

No matter how well you plan your dignified and stately protest where you recite a communist monologue, pour soup over your head, and superglue your hand to the building, something embarrassing might still happen.

Well what's fun is that their own dumbfuck social protocols paint themselves into a corner. They ever fight back, even a little, and now we're talking about something very different from protesting. So If you find a creative workaround to their shenanigans, they have to go along with it.

The I'm-pretending-this-is-part-of-my-protest going along with it is better than The Titanic.

[George K]

[Jolly]

And the couple never missed a beat...

[George K]

Lock them up.

[Jolly]

I agree.

[Horace]

@George-K said in Tomato Soup on $84 million Van Gogh painting:

Lock them up.

WTF posters?

[Renauda]

@George-K

Lock them up.

Yes, a secure long term care facility for seniors just might be the answer to their geriatric shenanigans.

[Mik]

They meant Olive Oyl. A bit batty.

[jon-nyc]

Can’t think of a better tactic to get China to stop opening new coal plants every week.

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc

[Copper]

@George-K said in Tomato Soup on $84 million Van Gogh painting:

Lock them up.

Put them to work in a petrol station.

[Doctor Phibes]

One of the ladies is apparently an Anglican vicar.

[George K]

[George K]

https://juststopoil.org/2024/09/27/sent-down-for-throwing-soup-judge-hehir-turns-state-repression-into-an-art-form/

Sent down for throwing soup? Judge Hehir turns state repression into an art form
Press, Uncategorized / September 27, 2024
Two Just Stop Oil supporters who threw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 2 years by Judge Christopher Hehir at Southwark Crown Court today. [1]

Phoebe Plummer was jailed for 2 years for the soup throwing plus 3 months for a S7 offence, while Anna Holland received a prison sentence of 20 months. They are also subject to 3 year Criminal Behaviour Orders and are expected to serve at least half of their sentences in custody.

In July, Phoebe and Anna were found guilty of causing criminal damage exceeding £5,000 after they threw tins of tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting at the National Gallery in October 2022, although the painting was protected by glass and was unharmed. Judge Hehir preemptively dismissed all legal defences—including the defence of ‘proportionality’ and their Article 10 rights under the Human Rights Act 1998—without hearing any evidence from either side. [2]

Seems to me that they got off easy.