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Moment angry shopper smashes megaphone of vegan activists berating customers for buying Easter lamb (www.lbc.co.uk)
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The angry man can be seen confronting the vegan campaigners, who held up screens showing animal slaughter and used the megaphones to get their point across to shoppers.

One man took direct action against the protesters, grabbing a loudhailer from an activist named Ella Wild and breaking it on the ground before walking away.

Ms Wild posted a video of the incident on her Instagram, calling the shopper who retaliated "an angry customer".

Most of the commenters sided with the shopper, with one saying: "Good man glad someone done it".

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Agreed, in general. As someone who has worked retail, I'd just ask them to leave once and then call the police. There's no need to mediate this situation.

Yeah, if one were really going to support militant action against the meat industry, it should be way higher up the chain where the decision makers and infrastructure are. There are a lot of bigger consequences to doing that, which is why timid people usually just harass consumers.

Also, I'm not a vegan. I don't advocate for harassing people that don't share my ideology, either. I'm just opposed to vigilante "justice."

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Also, I'm not a vegan.

    Yeah I thought you'd pick me up on that phrasing, I was using the more general version of you, talking to vegans as a whole and not the you for you specifically lol.

    I think people have just had enough of these loud people and the cops are obviously not doing anything and trespassing these people doesn't work, look at that Aussie chick who keeps getting banned from shops for her horrible style of protesting, but she keeps on going back.

    Sometimes these people need to learn the hard way by their own choices and sometimes that comes in the form of a pissed off customer ripping a megaphone out of their hands.

    Is it the right thing to do legally? Probably not, but it put a stop to their harrassment of others, they just got upset that they actually had to face some form of consequence for their actions.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sorry, I wasn't trying to be pedantic. I really thought you were stating that I was a vegan who was arbitrarily taking the side of another vegan. I retract that, for whatever that's worth.

    I agree that repeat offenders need to see some real consequences. It's not okay to harass other people.

    I just feel like learning the hard way needs to be handcuffs, court dates, and then bars. If the government doesn't step up, yeah, citizens will start taking things into their own hands, which comes with a lot of risks, especially when people disagree on what's considered acceptable behavior. It's only a matter of time before more significant violence occurs.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Nah you're all good, I wrote that part weirdly.

    We're living in really tough times atm and peoples fuses are a lot shorter than they used to be, I do believe that we're all suffering some mental health issues that came up from the pandemic and the lockdowns that we need to work on as a society, shits gotten worse since then and it's getting hard to keep your cool and remain civil, even I'm having a hard time not overreacting to things.

    I honestly would probably have ripped the megaphone from them as well.

    Too much insanity is happening all at once.

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