If you happened to be in and around the Heathrow area last week, you may have been fortunate enough (if the riot police weren’t too much of a distraction) to see me supergluing my hands to one of BAA’s 4x4 security vehicles. Reviews were mixed.
The Mirror said: “One 22-year-old man glued himself to a BAA car before being removed and arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.” According to the ever-attentive activist resource Indymedia: “A man superglued himself to a security vehicle at the Heathrow business academy. He was unstuck and arrested.”
In the (frankly misleading and inaccurate) words of the Times: “a man was restrained while attempting to glue himself to a car. He was arrested, one of six arrests that had been made by 8pm yesterday.” (One of the subsequent commenters on the piece, incidentally - one Jim from the Midlands - asks “Why on earth would one think that glueing ones self to a car would have any impact on BAA?”, actually not an unreasonable question in the circumstances. Unfortunately for Jim, since he chose the Times as his news source - in preference to, say, Indymedia - the answer is likely to remain a mystery.)
No pictures of the event yet, sadly. So in the meantime, you’ll have to make do with the above picture of three fellow troublemakers stationed nearby at the time, who were kind enough to cheer me on my way to the cells. And, in addition, a picture of the extremely powerful and impressive march by London-based Climate Campers, wielding pages of the Tyndall Centre’s aviation report and boards depicting faces of victims of climate change.
On a separate but related note, I have just written a short blog entry for UK Watch on some of the mainstream press’s more ridiculous coverage during the Camp for Climate Action. Read it here.
