The climate-protest group Last Generation decided this week to block a road in Munich, Germany, to draw attention to their cause.
But the drivers decided not to cooperate.
Video posted by Last Generation on X, the social-media site formerly known as Twitter, showed cars running through the blockade and taking protesters with them.
A silver sedan and a dark green Suzuki SUV drove up to the line of protesters. The Suzuki stopped after a protester fell to the ground clutching a sign, but the sedan did not hold up, continuing to drive as protesters hung on its hood.
This opened a breach in the line of traffic disruptors, and even as the protesters stayed on the hood and the sedan slowed, other vehicles started driving by.
“Keep going! No matter how bleak the forecast is for the future - or what’s on your hood,” Last Generation wrote as a caption to its video, according to a Google translation of the original German.
The driver of the sedan was going at walking speed, and ultimately left the scene afterward, local police told German daily tabloid Bild.
There were no injuries reported to the protesters. Police are continuing to investigate the incident.
In a statement translated into English by Fox News, the group reiterated its central message.
“We are all part of the last generation who still has the chance to stop the complete ecological collapse of Earth … We come together and offer resolute non-violent resistance to the fossil-fuel madness happening in our present. We are society’s will to survive! We still have two to three years in which we can divert from the path of the fossil-fuel led annihilation,” Last Generation said.
But the Munich drivers drew cheers from the conservative viewing public online.
Chris Bray wrote in a quote-post of the Munich video that drivers should “drag these morons if they won’t move. We had idiots in the U.S. just like this.”
X user “Shooter” added that “enough is enough.”
“Stop disrupting traffic and hard working people’s lives. You know … Hard working?? Oh wait, you’re going back to mommy’s basement tonight to play video games,” the person wrote.
Conservatives in the U.S. also recently applauded the response of tribal police in Nevada to climate protesters blocking the road to the Burning Man festival Sunday, which also was caught on video and posted on social media.
Troopers moved a trailer belonging to those protesters out of the roadway, demonstratively ran over their signs, and arrested the activists.
• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.
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