Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Floor traders 1, Greenpeace 0

What happens when you screw with raw capitalism:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1487741,00.html

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.
“We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs,” one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. “I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”
Another said: “I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot.” Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: “Sod off, Swampy.”

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

ahhahahha GOD DAM HIPPIES

Anonymous said...

i can't wait for the oil to run out. then we'll see who's laughing

Anonymous said...

Maybe if those greenpeace hippies got jobs and tried to develop alternative energy sources rather then get their assess beat by brokers we wouldnt worry about oil running out!

Anonymous said...

are you working on alternative energy sources? yer a moron...

Anonymous said...

I wish this was televised. I can’t believe that a bunch of brokers kicked the tar out of those hippies. I think this should be an annual event that is reenacted each year like a Civil War battle.