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Ryan Bridge: Greenpeace protest - Just hang your banner and piss off · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: It's time I reckon we started sending bills to those
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  Speaker 1: protesters for wasting police time and resources. I watched yesterday
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  Speaker 1: with growing anger as a couple of Greenpeace people climbed
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  Speaker 1: on top of an awning on the terrace just one
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  Speaker 1: floor up. Stood there looking like numpties with their overalls
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  Speaker 1: and their helmets on. Nothing wrong with protesting, but there
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  Speaker 1: were eight first responders on the scene, at least three
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  Speaker 1: police cars, a fire truck. They even had to use
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  Speaker 1: their cherry picket to get these guys off the roof.
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  Speaker 1: The cars were at a standstill. Instead of solving crime,
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  Speaker 1: a poor cot was marshaling traffic to allow the fire
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  Speaker 1: truck to position itself in place. What a waste of time.
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  Speaker 1: Just hang your banner and piss off. Please, don't waste
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  Speaker 1: any more of our time. It's like those crazy ones
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  Speaker 1: that used to block the motorways and willing to remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Thank goodness, they seem to have given up and gone away.
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  Speaker 1: Good riddance. They made people the motorway ones, they made
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  Speaker 1: people late for their cancer appointments. I do hope they're
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  Speaker 1: ashamed of themselves for that. Though. On the terrace they
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  Speaker 1: can just jog on the courts. If there are courts,
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  Speaker 1: initial reaction to the motorway ones was anything to go
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  Speaker 1: by it, you can expect another you know, slap on
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  Speaker 1: the wrist with a wet bus ticket for this lot,
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  Speaker 1: I say send them the bill for the police, the
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  Speaker 1: use of the police cars, the communications center, the fire
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  Speaker 1: truck fee, the cherry picker fee, the firefighters charge out rate,
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  Speaker 1: double it and make them pay it. And if the
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  Speaker 1: individuals won't pay for that, then send the bill a
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