Just Stop Oil protester storms table at World Snooker Championship

Just Stop Oil protesters stopped play at the World Snooker Championship on Monday after storming The Crucible theatre in Sheffield and pouring orange powder over one of the tables.
The match between Joe Perry and Robert Milkins had to be suspended after a man stood on the table and emptied a bag of the bright orange substance before being dragged away by security officials.
A woman also began climbing onto another snooker table, where Mark Allen was playing Fan Zhengyi, but was bundled away by tournament staff.
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#snooker #worldchampionship #juststopoil

[@sam-nariman6236]

How didn't the security punch him in the face is beyond me.

[@liambrittle6177]

I love just stop oil! It’s the only way to make change

[@The_D_Man]

They are a joke and no one respects them or their message

[@middsie18549]

@@liambrittle6177 ........

[@plankton9705]

@@liambrittle6177no it really isn’t if they are doing it like this

[@megamask3158]

@@liambrittle6177blatant bait

[@davidgomezorantes5278]

Do they know that by doing this they aren't creating awareness, they are just creating hate against the activist 😢

[@sirbiakan1527]

probably they know but got egos to feed

[@jefry8393]

It's all abt attention

[@ElonHusky]

May be that's their secret intention

[@nnitro527]

people are aware they just don't give 2 sht rly about it honestly no one moves for this, they do but they are doing it in the wrong way, people only see them as a pain in the a44 and a social problem not the enviromental problem they want to promote and get attention to solve.

[@jameswhee]

Which is still awareness... they're operating under the mindset of "all publicity is good publicity". It's working.

[@thomassf3]

Can we get a shoutout for Olivier Marteel (referee, far table) for jumping into action immediately, before security could do anything, not knowing what that lady had, preventing any damage to the table? Legend!!

[@vallytheeg8317]

The clown , I mean the protestor is a man

[@AntiFurryNatio]

Based 🍷🗿

[@liambrittle6177]

I love just stop oil! It’s the only way to make change

[@simplyrealistc1232]

The camera man on the right side table even got in on the action too

[@anuragsharma4159]

it is such a small act.Probably a biggie in west

[@GregoryLancaster-rf7ce]

This isn’t the way to solve the problem They are only creating yet another problem

[@torqingheads]

There is no problem, the planet is not warming.

[@JosephGaming]

@@torqingheads smartest Tory

[@DaREALReddie]

This is basically encouraging people to start using more oil rather than stop using oil.

[@airtale8725]

What problem does this create? Absolutely nothing.

[@thatoneskierdude4410]

@@DaREALReddie if we stopped using oil we'd go back to living in the 1800's.

[@Enemyofthestate.]

Me and a few mates are gonna go to the world championships to stage our “stop protesting” protest.

[@thomaslimbrick6894]

Mad considering your name

[@TFG327real]

thats my life long dream

[@yourmum5576]

@@totalwater9431the enemy of my enemy is my friend 😂

[@hildaputri3731]

Double edged sword i see?

[@mast3rchief536]

This is why the police step down with these guys because the government want your approval to ban protests which isn’t good.

[@conorhamersleyspage8173]

I hope the best from that pool table. Poor thing 😔

[@Flourish_gov]

Yeah I’m pretty sure that is it very difficult to clean a snooker table so it may never be the same 😢

[@pocketinfinity6733]

another pool table lost due to violence :(

[@Hallehemss1624B]

Feel bad for the poor tables too😢

[@izmizzle]

Too many people are too comfortable with not getting punched in the throat these days

[@DoctorRetina]

One of the players had oil in his hair... and that pissed them off.

[@danw1374]

Hed have gone mad at ray reardon back in the day then lol

[@JohannLiebert511]

Lol really

[@Happin3ess]

How this act could be scary. That could be Anthrax or a toxic powder. Could be an act to do harm. It was a suprise and shock and too quick. Powder was harmless. But seeing this unfold - it is a lot to take in and I'm not surprised people in the audience may of been scared. A public event and something like this.

[@jeffbowes1]

Your afraid of everything!

[@strix3688]

I don't even know wtf inside those powder too...

[@fastballonly]

Terrorists just got a new idea now.

[@BoyFromMa]

After seeing this, I'm going to start changing my motorcycle's engine oil at 2500 km instead of 3500 km just to use more oil.

[@megaxind16]

😂😂

[@toneislands5438]

"Where's the cue ball going????"

[@JejuIju]

''And that's a bad miss'' 🤣

[@aspiknf]

Up the arse of the JSO protestor.

[@tylerfielding5311]

They should sue them for vandalizing that expensive table. Make ‘em buy a new one

[@yuzuke4573]

The security should always check their pockets.

[@minimaxi802]

Orange is a colour that has never been seen on a snooker table, 15 red balls, one white, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black but no orange.

[@Dungshoveleux]

Until today.... 22 orange balls.

[@tremu777dj]

clever

[@aspiknf]

Donald Trump endorses an orange ball.

[@BIackMoonCGI]

There's never been a purple either. Or turquoise come to think of it.

[@mitzievo]

​@@aspiknf trump definitely doesn't endorse these far left clowns .

[@biggerissues6085]

If only he realised none of us can afford energy prices anyway. 😊

[@robslade2571]

I bet he is from some well to do area and knows nothing about the challenges most people face. This lot often are. If he goes to court he will most likely have his own lawyer.

[@Moop747]

@@robslade2571 His dad is an investment banker lol, they got his identity recently. Second name is Whittingham, shock.

[@petecoventry6858]

and oddly enough they all wear clothes and travel on trains to get to places :D

[@airtale8725]

@@whippetlass856 Renewable energies are cheaper as they have to be set up only once and have no constantly rising fuel cost.

[@bogenious8474]

@@airtale8725 And can no way produce enough power

[@mudwimp]

Is he REALLY concerned most about 'stopping oil' or, as it seems to me, is he more concerned about 15 minutes of fame? Surely locking them up for 12 months would give us all a rest and, ironically, help them reduce their carbon footprints considerably.

[@garyfryer5334]

Who locks them up? The System that is partly allowing them to do it! The government is happy for it to carry on so they can reach their goal, which is stopping all protests.

[@katosushihisa1029]

I think that’s a great idea! They should be locked up for as long as the law allows.

[@luminousfractal420]

I havent heard his name yet. No i think this was about the oil m8

[@Moop747]

@@luminousfractal420 I have, Eddie Whittingham, lol.

[@ioasisyumich]

​@@luminousfractal420if it was about the oil, he wluldn't be wearing oil based clothes. He wouldn't own a cell phone, he would have walked there entirely from his home. We know for a fact he didn't do amy of thlse things, because evwry single JSO protestor is a middle class hypocrite.

[@clafann1]

Strangely enough, those protests are the perfect advertising for the thing they're protesting against.

[@Infinitboundaries]

This is not protest. This is destruction of others property, time, happyness, career, peace and so on. Wtf they are actually doing.

[@katosushihisa1029]

Please tell me these people were arrested and not just thrown out. What is wrong with people these days?

[@rickysmyth]

They were arrested. They are extremists so are happy to give up their freedom/life for their cause. A vandal with no cause would make a run for it and not be caught but they want to be

[@airtale8725]

Perhaphs that there is a large scale democratic backsliding, polarisation of wealth and a globalenvironmental crisis that might eliminate humanity in a few hundred years and which already causes massive economic damages?

[@rhinomantis88]

Yeah im not affiliated with this group but i understand why they're doing crazy things as the government is being incompetent. I hate them disrupting life too but we just got to remember the real enemy here.

[@flipkiller8521]

​@@airtale8725The motivation is fair but the methods are downright stupid. They're doing more to convince people to be against them than to side with them at this moment because of their foolish and misguided methods.

[@airtale8725]

@@flipkiller8521 Join us/them ( aim not in JSO cuz other country, but I agree with green activism) and make up better ones then?

[@steveparker8065]

Most exciting thing to happen in Snooker since Steve Davies once smiled back in the 80s...

[@johnearnshaw5036]

I think it was more of a grimace.

[@poolplayerpoolplayer7430]

Be more exciting if they broke the cue over his back lol

[@aspiknf]

Most exciting thing to happen is Stephen Hendry getting his final 147 in the Crucible a few years ago.

[@purplemonkey649]

Watched it live.....

[@luminousfractal420]

😂

[@gabrielrojas2781]

I really don't understand how they want to get people on their side.

[@elrevesyelderecho]

I hope this guy do the same in an Indian, Russian or China sport event.

[@LevisH21]

Soros money hasn't reached idiots in India or China yet. 😂

[@superjohnnygamble6328]

No chance they only go for soft targets

[@ethandalton6480]

​@@superjohnnygamble6328 plus if they did do the same in India, Russia or China, the knuckle draggers would still criticise them for how they got over there in the first place

[@SM-zp2qi]

India, China are backward countries (yes China too rural China) and they deserve a break to uplift the population after all they did not colonize the world and took slaves and heavily polluted the earth for decades.

[@andrewneeley8819]

damn orange chaulk on a table now we HAVE to act

[@danielderias4773]

How nice of him giving them extra chalk

[@Joe-lo7ml]

I would have still played the match.

[@jagan2]

with his balls 😂

[@owomushi_vr]

​@@jagan2he doesn't have those

[@jagan2]

@@owomushi_vr Lol!

[@JohannLiebert511]

​@jagan2 holy shoot bruh😂

[@brentoyisaac2538]

​@@JohannLiebert511jesus basketball

[@A_Train.]

Whats worse than protesting is ruining another man’s game.

[@atharvabhosale3529]

Still confused how people aren’t literally hitting or unaliving them lol it’s gonna happen soon.....people will lose their patience...

[@paulmorgan3600]

Worse gender reveal EVER ...its a ginger 😂😂🎉

[@alexfilma16]

Haha I’m f*cking dying mate 😂

[@TheWaveGoodbye-Music]

Probably the most exciting thing that's happened in snooker ever

[@iwrotethis1438]

No... That was the 147 break in 5:20 by The Rocket. This "protest" is some entitled stupid ignorant brat with too much time.

[@Buzz9530]

Bringing more colour to the sport...

[@ameliaestrada8023]

Wtf os snooker lmfao that's pool for brits?

[@reaganation6000]

Still isn't worth it

[@reiterateyoursentence3447]

@@ameliaestrada8023A version of billiards much older than pool

[@TheSonOfDumb]

Security didn't do their jobs. As useless as Shinzo Abe's guards lol.

[@Laufield]

Just make new law of prison for ten year

[@AtomicA7]

Security at events like this should be searching everyone before they get in so this doesn’t happen again, and if someone asks why they are searching everyone the security should say blame just stop oil for this new rule

[@smartlearning6390]

they can’t, they could be wearing shirt inside the jacket and color packet hidden inside pants

[@Villio.]

they are told to allow them by the government i guess cause maybe the problem is deep hehe

[@RollinTrollin]

That's just normal table conditions in the Philippines.

[@deanna04]

We need to bring back tomato throwing

[@WestPartChronicles]

bro the grandma looked so disappointed

[@mattfontana]

from today i gonna leave my car turned on for at least 15 minutes every day on my parking at home just to contrast this

[@ioasisyumich]

Truckers that roll coal on lowlife protestors are my hero.

[@Mark-ib2st]

Picked the wrong fans/sport. The security probably did that boy a favour protecting him by dragging him away.

[@sannytizer7772]

That audience wouldn't tackle a gnat, that's what's wrong, the public should get involved and tackle these morons, aggressively.

[@samhart4663]

Ooooo snooker fans hardest fighters and most dangerous people in the world

[@thefieldofdreams_]

Disagree they all sat there with arms folded muttering

[@fargodavilleitnotd6729]

@@thefieldofdreams_ Thats not strictly true, i saw one or two shake their heads with anger and one bloke shouted "lock him up!"

[@SamB-fk3nu]

@@fargodavilleitnotd6729 I heard that too. But people rarely seem to get enraged about the actions of a corrupt government making a fortune out of fossil fuels.

[@parambrata2255]

This is nothing but will annoy people more

[@subvariantstrain]

They are protesting against the common people. Most protests want the people to join their cause not actively protest against them and annoy them. That's a bold strategy Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em

[@rickie2086]

They should try it at a wrestling competition

[@willforbes6373]

Perfect chance to use a cue for what it was intended for.

[@petermorris9592]

Anyone not convinced by JSO was just pissed off with them for ruining the game. Anyone convinced by them was just pissed off with them for ruining the game. Basically, they're doing nothing but pissing people off. This is a shameful way to persuade people.

[@jonathanschotten1410]

No one likes being told what to do - especially not 'Stop destroying life on Earth' (!) And no one likes seeing someone braver than themselves in action.

[@talltom1129]

It takes a certain breed of people who don't have any problems with pissing people off. Just obnoxious behavior

[@dott8348]

I wonder how the players felt

[@Niko-pn8bl]

I'm sorry, but i can't help but be hysterical at the whole ordeal, from the reaction of the audience to the sudden appearance of the lunatic who just made a fool out of himself

[@IkilledColMustard]

If they want to protest go to the countries that produce s the most oil.

[@Londonfogey]

'Oh and that was a bad miss...'

[@linkan731]

Foul and a miss.

[@w8omg]

Under-rated Mitchell and Webb sketch.

[@superjohnnygamble6328]

Snooker loopy nuts are we.

[@RadagonTheRed]

Imagine paying £1000 for a ticket to watch that match only for that prat to ruin it.

[@wgcds7jyg897]

Awwww…he had a temper tantrum and threw orange powder everywhere. Probably also had a poopie in his diaper.

[@FS-flash]

And some people say snooker is boring! 😂

[@lutrueson9000]

I don't know why but i like this more than them blocking the roads 😂

[@PetersonZF]

Blocking roads affects a lot more people. I mean, I don't personally care if a snooker match gets ruined, although I completely understand many others do.

[@mikequick1050]

How does disrupting a snooker game promote the cause? Snooker isn't a huge oil consumption thing. This is just making them look like extremists and a little foolish in my opinion. it's a shame really as there is a better way of going about it

[@lutrueson9000]

​@@mikequick1050I dont care, I am not interested in any of it I am just watching news I have no opinion on the matter also it is probably the most exciting thing to ever happen in snooker ever !

[@djdoolittle1315]

@@lutrueson9000totally man 😂

[@ARJ-ym1fg]

"Foul and a miss"

[@123darrend]

😅😅😅 RONNIE O'SULLIVAN 4 😆😂😂😂😂

[@123darrend]

"Shhhh..Quiet please" 😆

[@ebolarnator1794]

Damn it, that's gonna take ages to re-set up.

[@NOISEf7]

how snooker and oil are linked???? Please explain because i don't see it

[@WillScarlet1991]

I'm surprised the cowardly BBC actually showed this. Anything remotely off script, and they normally resort to a blank screen or any other shot.

[@fantasyboxing71]

The BBC support and push "the climate crisis" agenda none stop, as do every other big corporation and government entity. Of course they have no issue showing this useful idiot to the masses.

[@tyredmechanic290]

@Jack Reid No, he has a point. It's publicly funded - Effectively state propaganda... Them showing any opposing message presents a conflict of interest.

[@aspiknf]

@@tyredmechanic290 Yep, the BBC is state propaganda.

[@valiant971]

And the oil just kept on flowing. A total waste of time and effort.

[@SamB-fk3nu]

Labour have already committed to no new oil. That doesn’t seem like a coincidence to me.

[@thomassf3]

@@SamB-fk3nu I am sure this protest helped that soooo much....

[@SamB-fk3nu]

@@thomassf3 Time will tell. It always does.

[@mr.speyside5240]

I’m sure this saved the planet. 😒

[@bo0tsy1]

Just curious, what substance is used to print, just stop oil.

[@General_Belu]

Now that’s a good question!

[@veiddimaddur8354]

I have a sudden urge to run my diesel generator for a few hours

[@andyrobinson2653]

These are a product of someone else conditioning these people. And the big boys at the top fund them.

[@V8King770]

Gullible idiots

[@luminousfractal420]

Well it may be a blatant projection but its a good sign that the info is finally sinking in :) ty for that.

[@genstep0013]

They destroyed a masterpiece of art, and they disturb roads and cause traffic, they disturb sports. This group should be in jail right now.

[@stevensibbet5869]

Attention-seeking behaviour.

[@erichalfbee503]

I thought he was protesting against fake tan products. Or the mistreatment of Umpalumpas in the Chocolate Factory.

[@ihategoogle6066]

😂😂🤣🤣💀

[@theuser810]

To be fair, this is probably the most interesting a snooker game will ever be LOL

[@mattfontana]

pathetic "i want some likes" comment ....

[@terg8472]

@@mattfontana true though

[@Melodie_Info3]

Question what are those headphone there wearing for?

[@sheldonb2022]

and how Oil is related with pool games? XD

[@airtale8725]

Plastic was invented for the entertainment of rich inbred colonialist snookers who wanted something cheaper than the ivory balls they used until then. Also the sport sponsors still push big oil and tobacco lobby.

[@christianjackson9298]

I love how a few rush at once to be the first to get their hands on the idiot 🤣

[@SaturatorMusic]

Wtf does just stop oil has to do with snooker

[@alexwohlfarth3395]

Because of all this, I will make sure to use twice the fossil fuels to protest how dumb these protests are.

[@bertwhetstone3173]

I was unaware that snooker even uses oil!

[@Ivanatis]

at least one year jailtime please and no probation

[@airtale8725]

That's literally one year more than any of the rich lobbyists, cronies and murderers ever got.

[@TEKASHI-de1qt]

if ronnie was playing he would have knocked him out

[@mr.perceval6811]

Alex Higgins too!

[@franziskusranzberger8310]

​@@mr.perceval6811I' m just wondering, what would have happened, if the incident had taken place in the match between Quinten Hann and Andy Hicks. To bet or not to bet would then probably be the question for Mark King.

[@matthew6994]

Just what i was thinking!

[@scotty87able]

Or ray winstone would have put a couple of balls in a sock...

[@katosushihisa1029]

Would’ve LOVED to see that!

[@markmanc-zw3td]

Stuff em I'm going to put even more Bertolli on my salad now 👍

[@good-bloke.1768]

I’m gonna go drive around for a bit, with no actual purpose

[@poolplayerpoolplayer7430]

Yes and I'm going to add more steak to my monthly butcher order

[@VirusMan-sr2zp]

I'm going to throw plastic straws directly into the sea

[@superjohnnygamble6328]

Has the opposite effect if they think they are getting any support.

[@NatrollJM]

Also great how they think doing things like this will bring people to the cause rather than deter them from it

[@SomeLostInesh]

That guys dad prob went for the milk and never came back

[@TheInvoice123]

Mummy, I wan't my Mummy!

[@mikelynott4035]

If he'd done that in my snooker club he'd have ended up with his balls in different pockets.

[@KantaUrali]

SHAME ON HIM

[@BillOdyssey]

This makes me proud to be British 📈

[@petermorris9592]

In what way?

[@wowerman]

Pride is not a virtue.

[@luminousfractal420]

​@@wowerman but still relevant

[@luminousfractal420]

​@@petermorris9592 seeing people stand up for whats correct morally perhaps. Thats something to be proud of. Ignorance is not.

[@thomaspicone8424]

Nothing to be proud about and your British credentials need to be brought into question

[@OpinionatedMonk]

Love to see him try that in Russia. I'd pay to watch that.

[@richardwareing8298]

Or China

[@theEarlofChip]

I'm actually coming around on these guys - they're obnoxious and inherently unlikable, but the way they trigger regressives who would proudly praise other nation's despotic, undemocratic policies is really funny.

[@luminousfractal420]

Oh a russia fan. Is ukip a bit more directly linked these days?

[@OpinionatedMonk]

@@luminousfractal420 Who said I was a fan? Also - 'Russian'.

[@polloloco6353]

Or in a UFC octagon...

[@PetersonZF]

Shame Jimmy White wasn't playing, he'd have just snorted it up.

[@steveforest8385]

Would be the fastest clearance he's ever done.

[@aspiknf]

Lol!!!

[@gesserriahi5459]

One table was sprayed with orange powder, and the other sprayed with fish odors

[@mr_snowy14]

This is what fear mongering does.

[@EthikosResearch]

Legend!

[@Nicole_Auriel]

Watched this video, then went out and filled my gas tank up to full at my local gas station just to spite them.

[@thejman5683]

Hello, random American here. These guys recently interrupted a Tekken Tournament by spraying paint on the screens of the match. Are these guys like British PETA or something?

[@cortarelva]

And this achieved? Nothing as ususal.

[@fburton8]

A tiny iota of publicity.

[@tremu777dj]

atention and coverage for media

[@interesting2491]

It achieve a lot in terms of ‘getting the message across’ it’s getting plastered all over the internet. But like everything, we will go to sleep tonight with our eyes closed and mouths open and wake up in a different day than yesterday and time moves on…

[@frantictoast3741]

​@@interesting2491 bro everything gets plastered all over the internet. A good majority of that stuff people forget about within a day or two because we get hit with so much every single day. This did nothing.

[@Britannia.]

@@tremu777dj Tomorrows fish & chip paper.

[@ibgucut3233]

People don't punch these guys enough

[@petef7323]

This actually makes me want to go and buy more petrol

[@dere1048]

Lmao she didn’t even manage to get on the table. What a joke

[@MK-rk4no]

Kudos to the bad guy on the left completing his mission and shaming the bad guy on the right.

[@vampireducks1622]

The one on the right looked like a girl.

[@MK-rk4no]

@@vampireducks1622 we don't discriminate. She had a mission to complete and failed miserably.

[@HughzieTube]

She was attempting to glue herself to the table but the set time wasn't quick enough.

[@MK-rk4no]

@@HughzieTube there was plenty of time. The game of Snooker is painstakingly slow.

[@katosushihisa1029]

What mission? To annoy people and make them despise whatever cause he was trying to promote? If that was the mission, then yes I’d say he succeeded…

[@davedogge2280]

the plastic bag and the manufacturing process used to create that orange dye actually both use oil.

[@matthorrocks6517]

Yep and his shirt and pants and watch and the car he drove in on. These people dont know what they are doing.

[@felixbackhouse2978]

That has nothing to do with the UK stopping new oil licenses. They are going for the big picture here

[@matthorrocks6517]

@@felixbackhouse2978 Without co2 there would be no oxygen in the air. All plants would die. We would likely be in an ice age. We would also be dead.

[@thinkwithvideos2238]

Thanks for ruining the game.😡

[@Zenbloke]

Details context these would be nice from a news channel

[@DonCrowseppe]

They always look protein deficient and anemic 😂

[@lochnessamonster1912]

Extra funny when followed by a shot of the hogs in the audience

[@steveforest8385]

Probably from not getting enough of their essential oils.

[@PerryDJSolurkkStone]

Lmao he just powdered that stuff everywhere 😂

[@mattfontana]

wow let's hope he hasnt been studying too hard for that

[@c.l.m.4726]

Because the government has illegally opened up a new licensing round to allow oil and gas companies to explore for fossil fuels in the North Sea despite threats of a legal battle to stop.

[@liambrittle6177]

Just stop oil then? Simple. Or stuff is gonna just keep getting disturbed. Only way!

[@VirusMan-sr2zp]

Gonna drive my diesel car to work today, which is walking distance, out of pure petty belligerence.

[@luminousfractal420]

Well done 👍 gotta feel good inside. Just another layer of scabbing.

[@mattfontana]

@@luminousfractal420 i just left my car turned on on my road for 30 minutes and went back home

[@TheDjcarlos67]

Go on protestors 💪💪💪

[@JosephOliva-km1qf]

Protest about stopping oil*proceeds to use product with hints of oil *