Just Stop Oil get a taste of their own medicine after counter group crashes their banquet with ‘rape alarms’ attached to balloons
Just Stop Oil today took to Twitter to applaud the ingenuity of a counter group who derailed a banquet by setting off alarms suspended in balloons.
The climate activists shared a video on Twitter of members trying to pop the balloons, which had floated to the ceiling.
They brushed off the disruption, writing: ‘Props to @j_s_p_p_o for their impeccable action design.
‘We invited them to eat with us, but the alarms they let off at our banquet instead were the perfect metaphor for the urgency of the climate crisis.’
A group with a similar name was filmed earlier this week clashing with Just Stop Oil, encircling members to stop them marching in London.
A still from the video shared online shows the balloons containing alarms, ostensibly released by a Just Stop Oil ‘counter group’
Video shared online shows balloons containing alarms released at a Just Stop Oil event
On Twitter, Just Stop Oil tagged a page called ‘Just Stop P***ing People Off’.
Just Stop Oil were seemingly surrounded and ‘kettled‘ by the group of similarly-named counter protestors on July 20.
People wearing ‘Just Stop P***ing Everyone Off’ shirts were seen to form a human chain around JSO members in a bid to foil one of their demonstrations.
But the counter-protestors ‘dispersed’ after activists ‘explained their reasoning for demanding an end to new oil and gas’, JSO explained on their social media.
The so-called JSPE group were later revealed to be YouTube pranksters Archie Manners and Josh Pieters.
It is not clear whether the two groups were related.
MailOnline contacted ‘Just Stop P***ing Everyone Off’ for comment and clarification.
MailOnline contacted Just Stop Oil for comment and clarification.
The latter group shared video earlier today, appearing to be enjoying a banquet.
Just Stop Oil describes itself as ‘a coalition of groups working together to ensure the Government commits to halting new fossil fuel licensing and production’.
Formed in February 2022, the group has proven divisive, using disruptive tactics to bring attention to its issues.
While favouring nonviolent action, the group uses vandalism and traffic obstruction to call for change.
In recent months, a number of top sporting events have also been disrupted by Just Stop Oil protests.
Four activists in their 60s invaded courts at the Championships earlier this month on the back of disruptions at the Grand National, Epsom Derby and the Ashes.
MailOnline revealed in an exclusive that Just Stop Oil protestors would be given unprecedented lifetime bans for invading the courts of Wimbledon.
Balloons are pictured at the event in a video shared on Twitter earlier today
JSPEO protestors encircle the Just Stop Oil members allegedly planning a march in London
Road blockages have led to clashes with the public. Earlier this week an activist was punched by an angry motorist after blocking a road in South Kensington.
Daniel Knorr, 21, a student from Oxford, blocked a road in South Kensington ‘causing a pregnant woman to crash her car’.
A man with the woman climbed out of the crashed car and angrily confronted Knorr, shown on filming hitting him to the ground.
Just Stop Oil said: ‘Daniel was assaulted while marching this morning, and remained nonviolent throughout. Disruption is difficult, but it’s necessary.’
