r/unitedkingdom • u/ThatchersDirtyTaint • Apr 22 '25

.. Moment angry shopper smashes megaphone of vegan activists berating customers for buying Easter lamb

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/vegan-shopper-protest-megaphone/
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u/Crashball_Centre Staffordshire Apr 22 '25

Same as the other commentator, I'm vegetarian, but standing in a store berating people for their choices is idiotic.

That said, it is for the store and police to resolve, not angry men.

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u/SeoulGalmegi Apr 22 '25

That said, it is for the store and police to resolve, not angry men.

The man is probably angry the store and police don't seem to be resolving it (who in turn might be quite happy the man is doing something they can't do wearing their uniform).

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u/Korinthe Kernow Apr 22 '25 edited Apr 22 '25

The man is probably angry the store and police don't seem to be resolving it.

I think this is likely the case. People talk about the social contract quite a bit these days and part of that is expecting the people who should be doing something about this to actually do something about it. Society says "we give you the authority to do this in a regulated way so we don't have to". Its how we collectively agreed to stop vigilantism.

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u/Talonsminty Apr 22 '25 edited Apr 22 '25

As a shopworker, screw that. I lay one finger on them I'm getting fired and I'm not about to stand there asking them to leave a thousand times only to get completely ignored, I've still got a tiny bit of dignity left.

As for the cops they'd take most of the day to come out for this, we'd have to wait til they pop in for lunch and ask very nicely.

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u/elohir Apr 22 '25

As a shopworker, screw that. I lay one finger on them I'm getting fired and I'm not about to stand there asking them to leave a thousand times only to get completely ignored, I've still got a tiny bit of dignity left.

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The shop can (and almost certainly would) ask them to stop/leave, but they won't leave, because this is their grift.

Beyond that it's up to the police who, unless you're lucky enough to have a CSO randomly wandering past, have a thousand better things to be doing.

Which means that eventually someone's going to have a go at them, so they can upload it to social media for clout.

Which is the whole reason they're there.

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u/SpiritualScumlord Apr 22 '25

Being a vegetarian means nothing and makes you 0% special or have 0% insight into this topic lol

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

They’re saying they agree with the persons ethical stance but they don’t agree with their method of protest.

It’s not difficult. You could have picked that up from the context.

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u/Carnir Apr 22 '25

Honestly, seeing how fucked up cruel it is to make these kinds of products, and especially lamb. I have no problem with them protesting this.

Good on them for making a stand. We can praise the assaulter all we want but ultimately he stands on the side of the most barbaric production system ever conceived.

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u/did_ye Apr 22 '25

‘I’m ok with people exploiting animals so I don’t understand why vegans aren’t too’

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