Thursday, February 17, 2005
Greenpeace activists vs. Oil traders...
Yeah, that turned out about the way you'd expect it would.
Contender for funniest line uttered by a guy who was completely serious:
Tip - Instapundit.
Contender for funniest line uttered by a guy who was completely serious:
“I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”Method of exposing oil traders to their "point of view":
When a trader left the building shortly before 2pm, using a security swipe card, a protester dropped some coins on the floor and, as he bent down to pick them up, put his boot in the door to keep it open.Stunned, truly stunned I am that the oil traders were so unamenable to such reasoned discourse.
Two minutes later, three Greenpeace vans pulled up and another 30 protesters leapt out and were let in by the others.
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.
Tip - Instapundit.
