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# Buy That Man a Beer
- URL: https://goodoil.news/buy-that-man-a-beer/
- Published: 2019-07-21T04:00:23.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-21T04:00:23.000Z
- Author: WH
- Tags: Climate Change, World, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

What are the police paid to do? An illegal roadblock is installed and the police leave it in place. A senior citizen removes it to go about his lawful pursuits and the protestors call the police. Madness!

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/salt-roadblock002.jpg)

> A Redfield retiree ripped down an Extinction Rebellion blockade so he could drive through.  
>  
> Brian Salt, 73, usually drops his friend Lynne Mattin off for her evening cleaning shifts at a barristers’ chambers in Broad Street without trouble.  
>  
> But this week he encountered a road-block on Newgate when trying to drive his camper van to Ms Mattin’s workplace at 5.40pm.  
>  
> Extinction Rebellion (XR) has closed the route with a banner and signs each day this week as part of a bid to raise awareness of the ‘climate emergency’.  
>  
> Mr Salt says activists have repeatedly refused to let him pass each evening, meaning Ms Mattin, 65, has had to walk about a quarter of a mile to work.  
>  
> “She was in tears from the pain,” Mr Salt said. “She has a false knee and she can’t walk long distances.

> “I tried to tell them this but they didn’t listen. It’s disgusting. Any sympathy people might have had for the protesters is gone.”  
>  
> He says things have “turned nasty” each time he has tried to get through, so he decided to “have a bit of fun” just before 8pm yesterday (July 17).  
>  
> Mr Salt continued: “I tried to do it nicely and it didn’t work. So when I went back to collect Lynne after her shift, I ripped down the banner and moved the signs.”  
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> He laughed as he recalled: “They were shouting, ‘Call the police, call the police.’ I told them it wasn’t a legal road closure.  
>  
> “I will repeat it the next time I drive Lynne to work. I am quite willing to get arrested. I am open about it.”  
>  
> Avon and Somerset Constabulary and Extinction Rebellion have been approached for comment.  
>  
> [BristolPost](https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/extinction-rebellion-bristol-protest-traffic-3104325?ref=goodoil.news)