Two of the seized barrels.
State Police report arresting five Extinction Rebellion climate-change protesters they say were getting ready to use several pink 55-gallon drums outfitted so they could lock arms through them to make traffic even worse than usual this morning on the Leverett Circle Connector and on the ramps that connect to it.
Troopers arrested the five in the middle of the roadway on the Leverett Circle Connector for trespassing on state property and other charges.
Troopers also seized two vehicles that the trespassers had parked in two separate travel lanes to block traffic at the busy intersection. One of those vehicles, a 2017 Ford F250 pickup truck, was carrying three 55-gallon steel drum barrels with holes cut into them and pipes running through the holes, a device known as a “sleeping dragon.†The truck also contained a fourth “sleeping dragon†pipe device not fed through the barrels. A “sleeping dragon†is an improvised device made by protestors to secure themselves together, with their arms fed through a pipe or tube that runs through barrels through holes cut into them. Generally, a protesters hands are then locked to the hands of those next to them inside the barrels, to form a roadblock consisting of a connected series of protestors and barrels.
The four “sleeping dragons†seized from the trespassers this morning were made of steel pipes. Three of the devices were fed through holes cut into the three steel drum barrels. The seizure of the “sleeping dragons†by Troopers prevented the protestors from chaining themselves together in the devices to block traffic at the busy intersection, which is used by motorists connecting to and from the Tobin Bridge, Route 93, Storrow Drive, Nashua Street, and Charles River Dam Road.
State Police add that minutes later, two ambulances made their way through the circle " that would have otherwise been gridlocked, underscoring the importance of not allowing protestors to block roadways."
Arrested around 6:45 a.m.: Grant Rockett, 64 and Mary Hansen, 67, of Jamaica Plain, Joseph Rogers, 55, of Lyndeborough, NH, Mark Dugan, 54, of Newton and Jennifer Smith, 48 of Watertown. All were charged with trespassing on state property, disorderly conduct and conspiracy to commit a crime, police say.
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By Line Kook
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 5:13pm
Pay the enemy Clear Channel for billboard space. Shame drivers. Most drivers aren't aware of hidden costs, as they are... hidden.
Looks dangerous
By anon
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 3:28pm
What if a vehicle comes speeding into them? They can't get out of the way, and at least a couple people will at least lose arms.
Also, I was visualizing 20yo trustafarians, but the arrestees seem to range from middle-aged to pushing retirement. I hope they can find some way to help effect positive change that doesn't risk their limbs while discrediting climate activists as crazies in the minds of motorists.
That's a horrible thought for
By Matt Frank
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 8:34pm
That's a horrible thought for anyone but this actually goes to my point about access to hospitals. If God forbid one of them sliced their arm on the Barrell how would we get them to a hospital if the ambulance couldn't get to them? Then they would blame the paramedics for not saving their arm.
Meanwhile
By anon
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 9:11am
Your strawman just caught fire and is burning down the local conservation land due to the drought.
The Globe is reporting
By anon
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 3:44pm
15 of these clowns were reported during their morning temper tantrums.
And that was just the drivers
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 8:31pm
And that was just the drivers!
The apartment the first
By Matt Frank
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 3:44pm
The apartment the first couple lives in is valued at over 520K
The land and home of the second guy in NH is 450K
The last one is living in a condo worth 650K
And Newton guy I can't tell but the multifamily home is worth over 1M but I don't know how many units etc
They were driving big vehicles, they all seem to live in fairly nice places among people that burn a lot of fuel flying around etc. None of them seem to live in places that I would consider all that efficient...
Maybe they could all move into the large NH property together and use their resources towards the climate before blocking traffic for working people and those in need of medical care.
Remember, just because you Can cyber-stalk.
By Section 77
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 5:06pm
Doesn't mean you should. Ok, good talk.
He didn't tell them to own property
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 7:50pm
You want a slice of our community, you get your name published in the record. Fair game.
"Our community"...
By lbb
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 8:13am
...says the libertarian.
How's the view from the redoubt this morning, Will?
How the (expletive)
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 10:06am
Is that a counter? I'm not anti-community, I just demand better critical thinking and less desire for state-sponsored abuse from the electorate.
Critical Thinking
By Shreve
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 12:14pm
A critical thinker would weigh the evidence from all perspectives and make an unbiased decision. You can find countless times where Will said something that had no critical thinking attached to it, and when a critical thinker showed he was incorrect, he just stops responding.
Often times Will takes the exact same debunked opinion and just repeats it again where the critical thinker hasn't posted yet.
We demand more critical thinking from Will, who btw usually votes abhorrently.
Hey, I take accountability
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 4:42pm
See last week where I misread NU as BU and said that Howard Stern and AOC went there. I ate my (expletive) on that one.
Cyber stalk? Their name and
By Matt Frank
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 8:26pm
Cyber stalk? Their name and city were listed on an arrest report. It took me three seconds per person to look. You make it sound like I'm in cyber command over here hacking into main frames. Copy, paste into Google, copy paste into Google boom. I didn't put down their addresses, who else lives in the units, their voting records, the square footage and layout of their homes including pictures... All things you could find with even minor digging. Don't make it sound like I doxxed them you silly silly unregistered account.
Edit: Also isn't this group one of those groups that literally protests in front of the homes of politicians? A move that I find in very poor taste personally. Still seems a bit hypocritical tho
Purity fallacy
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 8:32pm
Purity fallacy
Hi there... Where is the flaw
By Matt Frank
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 10:08am
Hi there... Where is the flaw in my reasoning. If you are going to cite logical fallacies without defending them that is actually just a form of Appeal to Authority. Where you simply show up , use big words or logical idioms and think you (or want others to think) you dropped the mic. We should believe you simply because you say it is true and here's my phrase to prove it.
I did enjoy a few semesters of philosophy and logic back in my day. 7am Early Greek Thinkers class, I took a bus to reading about game theory along the way at 5am when I was 21, good times. So I'm happy to swap canned logical beignets back and forth if you'd prefer to do that rather than focus on the point.
Isn't that a waste of good
By Rob
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 10:46am
Isn't that a waste of good beignets?
I'd much rather sit somewhere in New Orleans with beignets & good coffee, discussing philosophy and logic.
That is something I can get
By Matt Frank
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 10:51am
That is something I can get behind. There's a good sweet version at the Cunard Tavern I can't have anymore due to my reaction to gluten with marshmallow fluff that's amazing. I recommend checking it out sometime , perfect place to rhapsodize.
"How dare a person
By anon
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 4:40pm
"How dare a person constrained by society demand changes in that society!"
That's an old fallacy and it's getting very very tired.
It is also extremely intellectually lazy, no matter how much privileged rhetoric you spew in the name of isolated privilege and academic self gratification.
The world is burning. Nobody cares about colonial formalities.
Purity fallacy
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 8:32pm
Purity fallacy
How do these property values
By anon
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 10:40am
How do these property values imply energy inefficiency or hypocrisy?
What is the maximum home value an environmental protestor should have, by your decree?
This was a calculated risk
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 8:53pm
Grassroots activist groups take the volunteers who have the least to lose in our carceral society.
If you are retired, you can't lose your job and be shitlisted for a conviction. If you are white the cops are less likely to beat you up. If you own your home free and clear you can't be evicted.
People who live in society should not be expected to live like Jesus Christ - outside of society with a vow of poverty - to be "qualified" to change things. That is the Purity Fallacy. And appeals to formal logic are bunk when that logic is predicated on falsehoods - like the idea that people have to be "pure" in order to advocate for structural change.
I say this a lot
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 9:11pm
But that first paragraph really is a terrific argument in favor of UBI.
Periodic reminder that this ideology was in the 2020 Dem primary, but voted against in favor of a septagenarian weirdo who couldn't get the job in 1988.
Weird detail to bring up in this context
By brianjdamico
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 9:21pm
I mean, he wasn't even actively seeking the 1988 job in 1988, that campaign was suspended in September of 1987. But what does this have to do with the story at and how did you arrive there?
Forgive me
By Will LaTulippe
Fri, 09/23/2022 - 10:11am
I was three.
Swirly (as she often does) made a salient point about activism being blunted by financial incentives, namely, the common one among many of us to retain employment to pay for shelter.
Ask the folks of Stockton, CA how UBI is working. Quite well, I've read: Amazing how well folks function positively when getting money isn't used as a cudgel against them.
Andrew Yang Loses to Donald Trump!
By Mason
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 10:02pm
Yeah, that would have been a muuuuuch better outcome. Guy couldn't even get the job in 2020! If your argument is that a person's worth is based on if a person can win an election or not, imagine how sad a candidate is who lost to Joe Biden . Also that would mean Trump better than lots of people who lost to him. Because he got elected!
Yes, it would have
By Will LaTulippe
Fri, 09/23/2022 - 10:08am
Would have gotten us to the revolution faster instead of another four years of treading water.
How's your household budget today?
What Revolution?
By Mason
Fri, 09/23/2022 - 12:38pm
That's a bold claim to just throw out. The one thing I learned is that ANYTHING might happen with Trump. He's way more likely to militarize his army as the leader of America's military, and through his fanbase who literally go to support rallies. So his opposition would have to get through the military and militias? Then what? A recently overthrown country would be good for stock markets and economies?
My household spend is awesome. I comfotably go on trips or events almost every weekend. Also, why don't we talk to thousands of people who had their loans forgiven, or just to my friend who owns a business that was given a big relief by the Biden administration. They suddenly lost most if not all of a giant payment they have had to make every month since they were 18.
Government shouldn't be picking winners
By Will LaTulippe
Sat, 09/24/2022 - 11:21pm
But I'm glad your friends won one instead of corporations one time.
gas fumes! bus exhaust!
By scollaysq
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 5:57pm
Really doesn't help "the cause".
Who thought this a good idea? Epic fail.
It's all about feeling good
By Quantum Mechanic
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 7:34pm
It's all about feeling good about themselves and trying to put some meaning in their narcissistic meaningless lives.
So
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 8:33pm
Narcissism isn't just confined to the drivers who act like everyone else causes traffic except them, and everyone should get out of their way?
I'd say that those who drive everywhere and never even think about it, then react violently at the mere suggestion that they can do things differently are the true narcissists living meaningless lives.
So you think climate activists are disruptive?
By anon
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 7:45am
Try climate change.
Maybe call someone in Halifax NS on Sunday. If they can answer, ask them how their Saturday with Fiona went.
She's going be visiting at high forward speed at a cat 2 or 3.
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By Matt Frank
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 2:16pm
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Morrisey Blvd.
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 9:00pm
How many days a year is that blocked by rising seas?
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