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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago

You walk into a shop with a megaphone and start taunting people through it, you deserve what you get, regardless of why you were doing it.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Yep. Don't tell people how to live their lives.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

"live and let liv- wait a minute!"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

unless you're telling them to live their life without megaphones

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Think I will actually

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Respectfully, I disagree. She deserved to be asked to leave. When she refused, she deserved to be arrested for trespassing and probably harassment, too. That guy deserves some charges as well.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Retail workers aren't paid enough to deal with some self important asshole who thinks that screaming at people through a megaphone is their right.

Protest the horrible meat industry by making their lives hell, don't go after the consumer go after the source ffs, but that would mean actually putting in effort to your cause, which these megaphone blasting people don't want to do.

These people are why us non vegans have an issue with vegans, most of you are chill people enjoying your life, but these pricks make you lot look insane and then you defend them because you agree with their message, but while you defend their message, you also defend their actions!

Start holding these people accountable for making the rest of you look bad, I know most of you vegans are good people, you don't deserve to be made to look like idiots.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

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."

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Retail workers aren’t paid enough to deal with some self important asshole who thinks that screaming at people through a megaphone is their right.

That's what the security guard is there for.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

If your stores lucky enough to have one, mine doesn't, so we have to deal with this type of shit.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Really? I haven't been to a supermarket without one in years. Perhaps it's a Liverpool thing.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ohh nah I'm in Aus lol, but we got our own version of this shit.

Its bullshit that we don't have a security guard, but the billion dollar company doesn't want to have its own security, so if the place the shop is in has security you're fine, if not, tough luck bitches.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Nah. If you're shouting at someone through a megaphone, you don't deserve that level of civility.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

She deserved to be served with the appropriate charges, given due process, and put in jail/prison for the amount of time prescribed by law as determined by the court. Vigilanteism isn't democracy. I agree she's being antisocial here. So is that guy. It doesn't matter how much worse her behavior is. His was still bad, too. He made the situation worse by escalating and violating laws.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

She wasn't hurt. Her megaphone was destroyed. She deserved it.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Ah yes the holy and sacred temple of the supermarket. Under no circumstance can there be protest here, especially not protesting mass murder and incarceration, because it might hurt the feefees of the most important and precious class: The Consumer.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

No-one is gaining the moral high ground there.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Luv lamb. Ate megaphones.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It's funny how the attacker has a super fat ass and the vegan is healthily skinny 😄 This is so cliché.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Easter lamb? Did Jesus love young sheep as much as he liked chocolate eggs?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Using a megaphone indoors in a store should considered assault. My child and spouse both have sensitive hearing, if someone was within a couple meters of them and shouted into a megaphone it would instantly reduce my child to tears and cause pain and distress, and my spouse would probably drop anything they were holding from the shock and pain of it.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I get what vegans are trying to do, I really do, but man are they tone deaf.

Pissing people off is not the way to get your point across, neither is blaring nin their ears with a megaphone.

Having said that, being violent against vegans also does not solve anything. I get the sentiment, but you're onlyaking yourself look like a shit bag in front of the whole world.

Vegans: find better ways

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

easter lamb is fucking insane. you're celebrating the death of the lamb of god by eating one?? stick with ham

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

When I used to go to mass, we'd be told we were eating the body of Jesus and drinking his blood. And they were not as delicious as lamb.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Are you part of Jesus's vampire coven now?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That'd definitely be cooler than the reality.

I was born in a European country much further to the east, escaped when there were soldiers on the street, ended up arriving in Britain not far from Whitby and have issues with sunlight, so....

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think I've passed through there by car once. It's either the country with the bullet holes in the neighbouring houses, or the one where the police pull you over for a bribe.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

If you have issues with sunlight, Britain is the right place to be

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Carnists get so fucking mad when you point out that they're eating literal dead babies. Fucking snowflakes. You don't like being reminded you're eating the corpse of an adorable baby? Well, maybe you should stop doing it then, no one is forcing you to eat animals, you can literally just not do it

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't find sheep adorable. They're also quite smelly. Cats however, are super adorable. That's why I don't eat them. Sharks? Ugly af, right into the soup pot.

Mushrooms are adorable though. You are a monster if you eat mushrooms.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

We're still right though

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

grand, nobody needs to hear about your cause when they're trying to shop, they aren't all slaughterhouse proprietors (and most of them don't care about eating the same stuff humans have done for hundreds of thousands of years)

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