Thursday, October 25, 2012

Friends of the Earth flout the rules

What is it about environmental charities? Just over a week ago, I reported misbehaviour by Greenpeace and today Friends of the Earth were committing an almost identical offence around 15:26 (which was when I reported them to the Council) This time, the chugger was about 10m further out of the chugger zone than the Greenpeace one and I got much better pictures of him at work. To be fair, the two girls seem to be enjoying his sales patter. As the Council promised they'd act immediately, I hung around to watch the action. It wasn't quite what I expected. At 15:39 two fairly cool, confident twenty-something guys joined the girls and the chugger and cheerful conversation continued for about a minute before the chugger suddenly left in the direction of the official chugging zone. I'm not sure if the two other guys were just friends of the girls or if they were plain clothes reps from FoE smoothly extracting the erring chugger from the situation. Or maybe two guys "rescuing" the "damsels in distress" and trying to chat them up?

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