“I have no weapons (don’t shoot).”
Ha ha, this made me laugh, talk about a fairweather protester! I always thought that if you believed in a cause strongly enough you should be prepared to die for it, not this imbecile it seems.
So, how do the Brits prevent a reoccurence?
- Issue coxes with sniper rifles
- Borrow crocodiles from the local zoo and release into The Thames
- Erect ‘no swimming signs’ (perhaps with a threatening £10 penalty)
Suggestions please.
If I was one of The Oxford oarsmen I’d have been aiming my oar at his head, if I’d missed at the first attempt I’d have pleaded with the cox to bring us ’round for another go!
Boadicea's Chariot 
But if this Aussie idiot had been killed or injured, then one Oxford rower would have had it on his conscience for the rest of his life. Please can we deport him back to Botany Bay?
Failing a decent blow to the head from a passing oar, they should have kept the tosser in the river until hypothermia cleansed the gene pool. I’m not in a good mood this morning. Sympathy nil.
OZ
I am afraid he would not have been on my conscience. I would have whacked him as hard as I could. I am fed up with people interrupting events for their own narrow beliefs. There are plenty of channels open to make your views known, that do not disrupt other peoples’ enjoyment (The Chariot for one). I should say at this point that I think the Boat Race is boring beyond belief, but plenty of people do like it.
these idiot protesters do not further their cause by upsetting the public. If they feel strongly about things then go to Downing Street and protest, throw eggs at MPs or shoot a few of them. But leave the things the public like alone.
Like FEEG I find the boat race a bore as well.
The idea of holding Trenton Oldfield under with an oar did appeal to me. I’m not sure what he is protesting about, but suspect he applied to Oxbridge and was rejected. This is the usual explanation for hatred of “elitism”. The captain of the Cambridge boat is also an Aussie, so perhaps he could sort Trenton (what an awful name) out with punches of one syllable. Or then again, what will they do with the broken oar?
But what’s an Aussie doing living in Whitechapel? Earl’s Court is Little Sydney. So the man is clearly a weirdo. As for the race, it was spoiled second time round by the Oxford coxess who steered into the Cambridge oars and suffered the consequences.
If the race is a bore, they could stage it on the Severn, at bore time.
Like FEEG and OZ I’d have continued the race and been disappointed if he’d not been wacked on the head with an oar. For future events it might be convenient to import piranhas from Brazil in case anyone decides to go swimming or perhaps a couple Sydney funnel web spiders to share the holding cell with. Wasn’t me, guvnah, ’twas the fishes and spiders!
Row the b*d down. Like others here, I have no time for people who want to disrupt other people’s enjoyment for their own petty reasons.
Unfortunately prats like this give other prats ideas. Let’s hope they don’t target Olympic events.
I rather like the above comment from one of the daily’s pages. Should be enough of a deterrent to prevent idiots disrupting future events.
Assuming this guy had died, I would have put him in formaldehyde and exhibited him alongside Damien Hurst’s Shark.
Soutie, hardly a fairweather protester, the Thames is incredible cold at this time of year.
Actually I rather hope it might happen at the Olympics, anything for a bit of amusement to leaven the deadly boredom of it all.
Who gives a tinkers cuss which wog can run fastest? If they introduced some lions to chase them it might redeem the whole damned thing and break a few records!
At least the Romans knew how to entertain!
I hear he’s been offered a place at Girton!
Spoken like a true Charioteer! Nay, gladiator!
What? The washing machine people?
😉
He didn’t quite skinny dip did he? He was wearing a wet-suit, still I meant fairweather as in half hearted etc.
Agree about the Olympics, I’m no fan either.
Could be, the place claims it can make sh*t smell like roses. 🙂
17 Hysterically amusing, totters off cackling.
16 Oh he was cheating, a wet suit, cretinous creep! The boy used to swim in the Thames a lot, me too, it was always bloody cold!