Greenpeace Parachute Stunt

[Mozz71]

Anyone see this? Although I support them on environment matters, sometimes they don't help themselves with dumbass stunts like this.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/16/police-hold-greenpeace-activist-after-euro-2020-parachute-stunt-goes-awry

[ToraToraTora]

mozz 14:53, how did they know he wasn't a terrorist with a massive shrapnel bomb to explode inside the stadium??

[naomi24]

Mozz would have known he wasn’t.

[sunny-dave]

A clever choice of venue - anywhere east of the former iron curtain and they'd have shot first and asked questions later - similarly for many of the more gung-ho western european countries.

For historical reasons the Germans now always ask many questions first and shoot with extreme reluctance (if at all) - it's cost them dear in the past (Munich Olympics) and could have done so again here.

A shockingly inept stunt which seems to have badly injured some innocent bystanders - I hope the perpetrator is jailed for a very long time.

[ToraToraTora]

Perhaps they called Mozz on the hotline to confirm he was a fluffy bunny Green peacer!

[andy-hughes]

suny-dave - // I hope the perpetrator is jailed for a very long time. //

Unlikely - they jail people for criminal behaviour, not rampant stupidity, which is just as well.

If stupidity was a crime punishable by imprisonment, we'd have to turn the Isle Of Wight into a gigantic jail!!

[Mozz71]

Tora @15:50. Because the parachute had a huge Greenpeace logo on it, which they were well aware of, as the TV cameras followed him down from their arial shots.

[sunny-dave]

And terrorists couldn't have printed "Greenpeace" onto their canopy?

[Mozz71]

Unlikely that they would've done that, bit if you start shooting anybody who does a stupid stunt like this because they might be a terrorist, where do you stop? Pitch invasion? Crack out the tommy guns. Streaker? Picked off from the stands.

[sunny-dave]

Andy - I'm ignorant of German Criminal Law, as you probably are too?

But I'd guess that they could put together a raft of offences around the themes of Entering Controlled Airspace, Reckless Endangerment of Life, Causing Actual Bodily Harm etc etc.

If (saints preserve us) one of the people in hospital should die, would that still just be 'stupidity' and a slap on the wrist?

[davebro]

I don't know what the laws are in Germany but for contravening International Air Law in such a blatant manner I think a 50,000 Euro fine & 6 months in jail would be appropriate.

[Arksided]

I didn't know what it was about until later reported on the news, I just thought what's this Johnny doing.

[sunny-dave]

Mozz - unlike your other examples, he'd entered a controlled space without going through any security screening - he took a huge risk, screwed up, and got lucky with the meekness of the response.

I really don't want anyone shot - and am pleased that this ended without bloodshed - but I'd find it hard to have criticised 'assertive action' in this particular case, Mozz.

[naomi24]

Perhaps if idiots like him thought they might not be given the benefit of the doubt they’d reconsider their plans.

[Mozz71]

Dave, while I appreciate what you're saying, I think the shoot first attitude is completely unnecessary in this instance. He landed on the pitch, it would've been simple for police, armed or otherwise, to meet him upon landing. He wasn't going to get far was he?

[Stickybottle]

I am all for Greenpeace but this was a stunt too far and endangered too many others as well as the parachutist
Hope they prosecute him to the letter of the law

[naomi24]

Unless he detonated a bomb on landing ....

[Spicerack]

Keep digging, mozz. ;-)

[ToraToraTora]

Tell you what I'm going to check the GB news out, if it's getting all the lefty Alans in a Brahms there must be something in it!

[ToraToraTora]

oops wrong thread ^^^

[ToraToraTora]

Mozz:"Tora @15:50. Because the parachute had a huge Greenpeace logo on it, which they were well aware of, as the TV cameras followed him down from their arial shots." - getting desperate aren't we! So terrorists would never think of pretending to be what they are not! PMSL! Come on sunshine, own up, I'll go easy!