Stonehenge Spray-Painted Orange In Broad Daylight As Onlookers Try To Hold Back Vandals

Why Stonehenge? Why not BP’s corporate offices? THAT would be a statement, not defacing an ancient monument that has zero connections with Big Oil.

This does not work for me sorry. I live in Andover 9 miles from the site. As a kid I climbed the stones before they blocked it off and went to a number of solstices with my dad. I understand they need to make news headlines, but the target has to be something else entirely, not ancient monuments.

We need to save the planet, let's draw attention to environmental issues. YES! let's use SPRAY PAINT IN THE OPEN AIR ON A MONUMENT to do that. (Needles to say I am losing faith in activists. they are getting close to influencers nowadays)

Considering spray paint uses a propellent, the act itself was an environmental affront.

So a few years ago Greenpeace caused permanent damage to the Nazca lines with a really d*mb publicity stunt, now these clowns target Stonehenge. What does either of these acts have to do with protecting the environment? The only thing they do is give environmentalists a bad name

That's just ridiculous! Why vandalize Stonehenge? And on top we cant exit fossil fuel in a rush because there is not enough infrastructure and green energy to provide the e cars. And who can f*****g afford an electric car?

Why didn't they just set themselves on fire? That really gets attention and at the same time rids the world of two loons. Win win!

No, just no. This isn't making a stand for the environment. This is just being a criminal and defacing a prehistoric monument. I respect the right to protest, but defacing one of the most visited megalithic monuments in the world isn't how you take a stand. They're damaging their cause by engaging in vandalism; people are now going to associate protesters speaking against big oil companies with ecoterrorism. Do they understand how much water it's going to take to remove the orange powder!? (No, because they are idiots).

F***ing idiots. They need a good long jail sentence to sit and ponder their actions. I am sick and tired or their stupid actions which mean that ordinary people are less able to visit sites like this for fear that they will be damaged by such moronic acts.

Hell’s bells, even I took one look at the photo and thought ‘aw, no, it’s those faux climate change activists, isn’t it’. You don’t mess with people’s cultural monuments, you just don’t; it’s messing with part of the identity of their culture at some point.

I no longer cared about their statement when they attacked Vincent Van Gogh artwork. If I was there k would have beat them to a pulp.

"The rain will wash it away", they claimed of the equestrian monument of Vittorio Emanuele in Milan's Piazza del Duomo. But it turned out that a tender had to be called for a specialist firm, because the orange paint could not be removed easily. The repair required public money and the monument was left damaged for about two months. https://www.milanotoday.it/cronaca/monumento-duomo-vernice-pulizia.html

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My two cents. Sure, we need to do better by our planet. However, not one of the Stop Oil protesters offers up a plausible/workable solution. So we are just supposed to stop using gas and oil? And replace it with what? Sure there is solar, but it does cost money and energy to manufacture the solar panels. Wind power? Sure, but again it takes money and energy to build those huge windmills. And who is going to purchase EV cars for everyone that doesn't have one? They are expensive and from what I hear, those batteries really can't be recycled when they die. So... protesters, give us a workable solution to the problem. If you are just going to b*tch about it and ruin art and monuments, you are no better than the problem you want to solve.

Ugh. I usually defend JSO even while having reservations about their logic and effectiveness but this is just stupid - by far the dumbest stunt they've pulled. Targeting well-protected art was one thing - dubious in it's messaging but there was a logic to it. This is just idiotic. The stones have survived a lot so I don't expect this will matter in the long run, but there's nothing good here.

F*****g idiots

Just stop Oil is a shill for corporate oil and gas. I'm convinced that they use these patsy's to gin up ire against real environmental progress.

Protesting climate change by spraying chemicals into the air. Just when you think we've reached the limits of human stupidity, someone comes along with a better idiot.

I don't understand how this group has only two way of protesting: vandalising artwork and blocking major roads (with no even tollerance for ambulances). Why, WHY, do you want the common people to hate you so much? What 's the point? Who is convincing them that they are martirs and that this is a smart way of protesting. Why none of them has ever gone to some oil company or some political buildings or...I don't know, why don't they go to the Monsanto headquarter?

the british goverment, or whoever is responsible for the monument, should sue this group for every penny they have. Sue them until they have no more money to do sh*t like this.

Give them twenty years in prison to think about it, the slimeballs. Unforgivable.

As fossil fuels are in limited supply and there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of these idiots, perhaps we should be burning people to power our society instead.

How about make these braying jackasses scrub the stones clean while wearing shirts that read Just Stop Stupidity.

I don't get any of these "protestors" - tossing paint onto the Mona Lisa, spraying orange cornstarch onto Stonehenge, dumping red fire powder on the US constitution, et al. How is any of this effective at getting your point across? Yeah, it makes people talk, but negatively, as in, "What stupid, terrible people these activists are!" Protesting used to be about holding marches, boycotts, sit ins, and participating in other socially disruptive activities. Who decided "Hey, let's f**k up national and international treasures to get our point across" and thought it was a good idea/would be successful?

These entitled twats behaving like 2 year olds. Something must be done. #BringBackTheBelt