Essay by Eric Worrall

First published JoNova; Repair engineers who remove or interfere with the bat habitat boxes risk prosecution for harming protected species.

Vigilante anti-ULEZ campaigners hang bat boxes on cameras to stop engineers fixing them

The £10 bat homes have been spotted attached to ULEZ devices in areas of London. Anti-ULEZ campaigners aim to make it more difficult for damaged cameras to be repaired

By Adam Toms Rom Preston-Ellis Assistant News Editor
16:25, 25 Mar 2024

Anti-ULEZ campaigners are hanging bat boxes on the cameras – to stop engineers repairing them.

The £10 animal homes have been spotted attached to ULEZ devices in Chessington, Kingston upon Thames and North Cheam. ULEZ opponents say they are “positively contributing to London’s biodiversity and ecosystem”. One said: ”I’m sure whoever is behind it is extremely grateful to TfL for providing the poles to house this protected species.”

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Read more: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/vigilante-anti-ulez-campaigners-hang-32437964

The Daily Mail has pictures of the vigilantes dressed as Batman (click here to see the pictures, video below).

From the Daily Mail;

Take that, Sadiq! Bizarre moment vigilantes dressed as Batman install bat boxes in bid to stop ULEZ cameras being set up amid backlash to Mayor’s hated scheme

By MATT STRUDWICK
PUBLISHED: 21:18 AEDT, 31 March 2024 | UPDATED: 20:56 AEDT, 1 April 2024

This is the bizarre moment two vigilantes dressed as Batman install bat boxes in a bid to stop Sadiq Khan‘s much-hated Ulez cameras being set up. 

In a hilarious video posted on TikTok, two men dressed as the crime-fighting caped crusader come bounding across the road in Chessington, south London, as the superhero’s iconic theme tune from the 1960s plays. 

One carrying a ladder rests it up against a lamppost before his sidekick scales up with his cape flapping behind as Batfight graphics ‘Kapow!’, ‘Pow’, ‘Zap’, and ‘Bash’ flash on the screen.

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Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13256895/moment-vigilantes-dressed-batman-robin-try-stop-ulez-cameras.html

I personally think the batman vigilantes are hilarious, but we at WUWT do not encourage this kind of behaviour, especially in places like The People’s Republic of Britain. Britain is a place where defying the woke agenda with speech crimes can be punished with longer sentences than rape or stabbing someone to death. I don’t know what sentence the anti-ULEZ vigilantes will face if they are caught, but the vigilantes have massively embarrassed Mayor Sadiq Khan, so London authorities will likely want to make an example of them.