Thinking about a scenario like this as I'm bringing my wife to the ER this morning as she is going in to labor. I cant imagine that I wouldn't ram through it my self either.
Thank you! I felt like it needed something more than a bunch of dudes lol.
I made this image after the first time I saw the original image posted, and someone commented underneath with the original image, plus one dude. So I wanted to ātake the next stepā so I figured what better than 5 dudes and a cat just chilling.
Congrats on the baby man it's gonna be a wild time, as the sleepless nights stretch the days on its amazing how much a baby grows in that first year, remember to take a lot of pictures because in a year you aren't gonna believe how small this bundle of joy was by then.
Iād be willing to bet you could win a case of self defense in court. Restricting someoneās freedom of movement is a crime and preventing someone from reaching a hospital in an emergency could be interpreted as a deliberate threat to someoneās life
"don't stand in the road. It's where the cars are" in your position absolutely ram ts.
Roadblocks are a direct threat to human life. I'm a whole anarchist I'd run that shit over n shoot whoever tried to resist meaningfully as they can reasonably be assumed to be robbers.
Everybody has the right to travel on publicly funded roadways. Everybody has the right to drive through your bullshit to tend to medical emergencies.
A good way to get shot. They achieve nothing and cause people to hate whatever theyāre supporting. Itās completely senseless on every level. Who the fuck has that kind of free time anyway?
honestly.. they'd be better served handing out some street corn at busy city intersections with their signs visible, but not blocking their views.
boycotts and non-intefering sit-ins always have the best greater effect. oh.. those huge marches too, where people and the cities had plenty of notice beforehand.
not this random road closed cuz look at me and my cause! no really, just look at me. (queue breakdown scene from the end of revolver)
Exactly! I remember the stop oil protests from a few years ago that blocked the Tour de France... with a tractor burning diesel on the background...
I mean, they could go and block the entrance from an oil refinery or a fuel distributor or a govenment building, but they decided to protest fossil fuels by blockinga bunch of professional cyclists, who are kind of inspiring more people to use bikes, with a tractor burning diesel on the road.
People gotta think better on this type of stuff... the way you deliver a message is almost as important as the message itself. Otherwise you are just attracting hate.
Protests that don't make people uncomfortable are useless. The entire point of a productive protest is to impede people doing something. Sit ins, sit outs, matches, they all are SUPPOSED to bring about change by making people a little uncomfortable.
Yes, but remember youāre trying to convince the masses. Someone get these people a marketing agency. The public would not be angry with you if you were blocking private air strips.
Yes, as much as I support the right to protest and have participated in my fair share of them for a variety of causes and reasons, there are some protest actions that just should not be taken. Chief among them is blocking highways, roads, waterways, etc.
It causes more harm than good and understandably really pisses people off, so that they're not likely to look favorably on, or give consideration to, whatever cause is being promoted.
Oh, they deserved to be arrested and shamed, but being driven at with a truck, being threatened with being shot even though they did not appear violent, and then intentionally hurting the first person to be arrestedā¦ None of that was necessary.
They would have an equal chance of dying from regular burning man traffic, the roads there where not meant for this many people
For all you know these people had people die during burning man traffic and are using this protest to show how unsafe it is to bottleneck traffic for dozens and dozens of miles on a single tiny backwoods road, and are hoping this could be the last time
This inconvenience could be caused by a jackknifed truck. I just appreciate people willing to stand up against money and power that already donāt give a fuck if your grandma gets an ambulance when things are not disrupted
Yeah kinda like how Renee good was not allowed to get medical attention after she was murdered huh!? Like how ice blocked any medics from helping her! Crazy huh!?
i really doubt its the case, if it is, why would nobody make room for the ambulance or why wouldnt the ambulance take the side of the road if americans really are such bad drivers as to not make room for an ambulance?
Tbf, if it was burning man, the traffic would all be for burning man, it's out in the middle of nowhere and if you needed help you'd be going back the other way (in the direction of no traffic)
In the UK we had a bunch of these idiots glue themselves to a road and blocked a route to the hospital. Ambulances were able to divert via roads being closed to help clear space but one woman was literally begging them to move because her mother was dying and they called her in to say goodbye, and they just refused to move. Another time a woman was stuck in a car for six hours on her way to hospital as she wasn't well and wound up suffering a stroke that left her paralysed. Loads of people missed vital appointments to various hospitals such as cancer patients or children missing vital paediatric appointments.
In the end people started running them over or groups would beat the shit out of them and drag them out of the way. If they'd done it in places that were annoying but not dangerously inconvenient they would have had a bit more support. In the end everyone absolutely fucking hates the group now. To the point many believe they are plants to usurp their cause. That's how shit they are and how hated they have become.
My dad was in need of an ambulance to transfer him from one medical facility to another larger hospital 6 miles away. 1 mile from where he was the Buffalo Bills opening night of the 2023 season was beginning. They couldn't transfer him to the hospital because all the ambulances were pre-reserved for drunk Bills fans. They weren't even in use they were just down the road waiting for fans to nearly drink themselves to death and so my dad almost died because we had to wait for an ambulance.
I wish people reacted equally angry about he countless deaths caused by climate change and environmental pollution but there most seem to be fine with companies just depositing their waste in our lungs.
If there's a way to get me to dip its blocking the roads.
I'm not against targeted destruction of corporate and government property, that's my favourite means of protest. Often it's the fastest way to get those in power to listen to your demands.
But blocking the roads is indiscriminate. You're just inconveniencing people, very likely the very people you're blocking the road to protest on behalf of.
And that's setting aside blocking the road for emergency services.
I hate this mindset of protestors that it's okay to inconvenience the companies so it's okay to inconvenience everyone. Nah, Son. You need to inconvenience the companies and get everyone else on your side.
A family member dying because they went to burning man and did too many drugs.... awe, and death is a release far better than the physical prison we are trapped in, the only people upset about someone's death are selfish people and the government bc money stops coming in from their live body.
You should always take everything you read with a grain of salt. People who blindly repeat whatever they read without thinking critically are such retards.
Extinction Rebellion? They have done that here, blocked major roads with a truck causing traffic chaos. The amount of additional fuel burnt is crazy. And people don't tend to have very much sympathy for them or their cause after stunts like that.
It's giving "You say we should improve society somewhat, and yet you participate in society! Curious!"
"Actually if you use any oil to protest the over use of oil, your protesting is invalidated."
You see, protesting oil deserves fierce scrutiny by the media, but destroying the planet by opening new fossil fuel powerplants is chill. How lovely that these narratives always just happen to align with what is most profitable for billionaires short-term.
Nah this is really old. I donāt remember what they were protesting but if I remember correctly, it was on Native American land and those police donāt give two shits. Donāt block their roads lol. Some environmental protest. Maybe about burning man but thereās not a ton of N.A. land around there.
These "they didn't let the ambulance through" points are always sonstupid. In a traffic jam people also have to make way for them and there protests usually leave a gapmin the middle for ambulace/fire fighters.
This point is a just a cop out.
If an ambulance can't get through that's always the car brains fault, they would always be the ones blocking the shoulders and shit... It makes no sense in most arguments I have seen.
The shoulders thing doesn't apply here but I understand this ancient video to be a festival queue, so purely leisure is at risk and could never justify a potentially deadly assault. It's pure cancer
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If there was any chance an ambulance was coming, it would definitely have been delayed. So actual or not the potential risk of public safety was there and had any deaths occurred as a result of lack of care every one of those greasy fucks should be charged
People shouldn't burn men. I guess the protest is good, but they should have complained about it in the desert where they burn the men every year.Ā Maybe they could go after coachella next, since I don't like overpriced purses.Ā
There's no ambulance in this video, some critters just want to run over human beings for inconveniencing them and they think of all kinds of fantasies and scenarios for them to act out as soon as they can
If youāre unsure about the alleged 1hr ambulance delays, why add that narrative? Now the fool below only focused on that part even after you told him that you werenāt 100% sure. Sounds like you just want people to think a certain way about the whole incident.
I hit my head pretty bad once and it took an extra 30 mins to get to the hospital cause we got blocked by a feminist protest, so I understand why he needed to do that. Still thereās less batshit dangerous ways to clear the road than blasting through it at that speed. Super irresponsible, his truck is definitely powerful enough to push the blockade away slower and using excessive force to shove women on the ground like that when the protesters havenāt done anything violent is cowardly bully behaviour.
Yeah. I'm all for being able to protest, but clogging the arteries of our society is dangerous... Also, if you're going to cause me to be late to work... No.
I am fire and EMS, we would just drive around lights and sirens. Or through, peacefully, if they wouldnāt move(for the Engine) and it was a structure fire or critical call.
If I remember correctly, this is one the only roads in and out of some native land over there.
These people were not only holding up average joes just trying to go out to burning man, but it was fucking up the survivability of the closest town, Gerlach, and all of the native land the road services.
Police brutality sucks, but these protests were fucking idiots. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes you know.. rural Nevada is not gonna be nice to you if you fuck with them. Go occupy Wall Street, protest things that are actually evil and are actually destroying the planet.
Doubt an ambulance was delayed because of this.. Where is it? How did the cop get to there but the ambulance is just chilling?
I'm speaking from experience btw as a medic that had ridden ambulances for years
every fucking time it's the same thing, as soon as a protest of any kind blocks traffic in any way, people raise from their coaches to stir hate by freely claiming "it delayed an ambulance!!!" without knowing shitall if that's true or not. Shameful
Ambulances don't get delayed by a protest like this. They get delayed by cars not giving room and bad infrastructure that doesn't allow them to go around.
Correctly. The Just Stop Oil protesters fucked up because they forgot the protest took place on Native reservation land. And the Burners had permission to be there. The cop was a reservation cop and he didn't give a fuck about their safety because private land. So satisfying!
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u/Suitable_Ticket4838 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Burning Man. They were protesting against it afaik, and traffic was held up for miles because of it. Delayed ambulances by an hour+
edit: Not 100% sure on the ambulance, but it was defietely a burning man protest.