Maintenance engineer who soaked Just Stop Oil protesters vows to again
EXCLUSIVE: Revealed: Maintenance engineer, 60, who soaked Just Stop Oil protesters vows to do it again if they come back – and was sad he couldn’t have thrown more at them
- Ryan Davis, 60, emptied two buckets of water over Just Stop Oil protesters
- The eco-zealots were causing traffic chaos in Camden, north London, today
- Read more: Students late to school are facing detention because of protesters
A maintenance engineer who soaked Just Stop Oil protesters this morning has vowed to ‘do it again’ if they come back – and was sad he could not throw more at them.
Ryan Davis, 60, emptied two buckets of water as half a dozen protesters slow marched in the middle of the road past his flat in Camden, North London today.
The soaking – the most recent example of a member of the public fighting back against the eco-zealots – was captured on video.
Mr Davis said his only regret was that he did not have more time to administer a soaking from the balcony of his third floor flat.
He told MailOnline: ‘It was about 8am and all I could hear were car horns honking. I looked out the window and saw them walking in the middle of the road. There was so much noise.
Ryan Davis, 60, (pictured) emptied two buckets of water as half a dozen protesters slow marched in the middle of the road past his flat in Camden, North London today
Circled is the apartment balcony Mr Davis threw the two buckets of water from
Just Stop Oil protesters were drenched in water by Mr Davis who stood on his balcony this morning as they held up yet more traffic in north London
The activists were sprayed with water from an upstairs balcony, after which the camera tilted to the thrower (pictured) who was seen shouting and pointing at the activists below
‘I was making a cup of tea but stopped that and filled up a waste bin with cold water.
‘As they came past I threw it down , and went back in to the kitchen fill up the container and throw that.’
The demonstrators from the group were slow walking through Camden, North London, when Ryan was spurred into action.
‘I don’t have any sympathy with them and what they want. They are just annoying and disruptive to the lives of ordinary people,’ he said.
‘You have to ask how did all get here to Camden. They either came by car, train or bus and they all use oil. They are a bunch of hypocrites.
‘I was so angry I wanted to follow them to the end of the protest and ask them how they got here.
‘People just want to go about their own lives without having to put up with them.’
Other local residents praised Mr Davis for taking direct action.
‘Good in him. I’m so glad people are standing up to these idiots,’ said a neighbour.
‘Who do they think they are. It makes me angry when you hear about people missing hospital appointments or not being able to get to school.’
Mr Davis added he was not worried about police becoming involved.
‘It’s a very hot day and I was helping them cool down,’ he said.
‘Anyway, I saw that the person who got hit by the water quickly changed so no harm was done.
Mr Davis told MailOnline: ‘It was about 8am and all I could hear were car horns honking. I looked out the window and saw them walking in the middle of the road. There was so much noise’
The eco-zealots were seen walking in the middle of a busy road in Camden just after 8am this morning
The zealots tried to look unfazed as they held signs adorned with messages such as ‘for my family’ and ‘I won’t die quietly’
‘But if they come back I’d do it again.’
The surprising footage shows the eco-zealots dawdling along with signs as frustrated vans and buses honk their horns behind them in Camden.
The protesters are then sprayed with water from an upstairs balcony, after which the camera tilts to the homeowner who is seen shouting and pointing at the activists below.
Meanwhile the zealots try to look unfazed as they hold signs adorned with messages such as ‘for my family’ and ‘I won’t die quietly’.
Several spectators are seen crowded around the protesters, capturing the chaos on their phones.
One of those on the road this morning, Ru Kenyon, 44, a teacher from London, said: ‘I’m 45 years old and the climate crisis has defined the whole of my adult life. My heart breaks for how it must feel for young people today to understand what’s happening.
‘We could turn this situation around, if we come together as a global community and treat it like the emergency that it is.
‘If I could speak to the Prime Minister I’d tell him he needs to get out of the way quite frankly, along with the entire corrupt establishment, and let the young get on with dealing with this crisis. But he may as well make amends first by announcing the end of all new fossil fuel licences in this country.’
The campaign group wants an end to new fossil fuel projects, yet have so far failed to target any of the countries who are the worst environmental offenders.
Another of those taking action this morning, Paul Bleach, a gardener and full-time carer from Portsmouth, said: ‘We are marching in the road because sadly all other forms of dissent are ignored.
A van is seen halted behind a group of protesters this morning
‘Citizens are being denied sufficient information and support by our corrupt government and the media. This is the mother of all humanitarian problems, there is no, and will never be, a bigger crisis. Where the hell is the sense of urgency from global governments?’
Today’s protest comes just days after Just Stop Oil protesters even proved unpopular with children, as pupils were seen reprimanding slow-marchers for making them late for lessons.
Eco-campaigners dressed in orange selected Stratford, east London, and Ealing, west London, for their action on Monday.
One motorist, who the campaigners explained their cause to, seemed fairly unimpressed, saying: ‘I don’t give a f***, get out of the way.’
Yesterday Just Stop Oil marchers took to London’s Hammersmith Road but were moved on by police just ten minutes later.
Motorists and members of the public fatigued by the campaigners’ antics phoned the police immediately after they were spotted at 8.09am.
Officers scrambled to the scene and arrived within four minutes.
Two minutes later the force issued a Section 12 condition was issued on the stretch making it an arrestable offence to say in the road.
By 8.19am – just ten minutes after the protest started – the campaigners were moved on and the street cleared.
One person on the road yesterday, Linda Lancaster, a grandmother of three from Bognor said: ‘I am marching this morning out of concern for my grandchildren. Rishi Sunak thinks that he can licence over 100 new fossil fuel projects, destroying not only my grandchildren’s futures, but his own daughters’ futures as well.
‘The scientists are telling us, there can be no new oil, gas and coal projects if we want to survive. Even the oil company scientists were saying it decades ago!’
Just Stop Oil said it is going to be carrying out the same tactics until the Government and multi-national corporations cave in to their demands.
What is Section 12 of the Public Order Act?
A Section 12 order under the Public Order Act 1986 relates to ‘imposing conditions on public processions’. It states:
- If the senior police officer, having regard to the time or place at which and the circumstances in which any public procession is being held or is intended to be held and to its route or proposed route, reasonably believes that –
- (a) it may result in serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community, or
- (b) the purpose of the persons organising it is the intimidation of others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do, or to do an act they have a right not to do, he may give directions imposing on the persons organising or taking part in the procession such conditions as appear to him necessary to prevent such disorder, damage, disruption or intimidation, including conditions as to the route of the procession or prohibiting it from entering any public place specified in the directions.
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