Activist glued to the road, requires powertools to break free

Here's what happens when you're an activist who glues himself to the road and you need the police to get you out with powertools. You must be one of the dumbest people we've ever seen to think this is going to make a point. Nah, you're just gonna get stuck with a bill to fix the road because you're so self-centered that you think people would look at you and take you seriously, but instead people were just mocking the guy and laughing. Stop doing stuff like this, it does not make people change their ways. It's just annoying to everyone and it's attention seeking behavior. Grow up.

VOA News had the scoop:

Environmental activists glued themselves to the asphalt in dozens of street blockades across Berlin on Monday to demand the government do more to tackle climate change, an action condemned by Germany's finance minister as "physical violence."

"We no longer accept that the government has no plan to stop the destruction of the basis of our existence," Carla Rochel, a spokeswoman for Last Generation, the group behind the protests, said in a statement.

The action was swiftly rejected by Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government, with spokesman Steffen Hebestreit saying: "We do not support such forms of protest."

Around 200 arrests were made over the protests, Berlin's regional interior minister Iris Spranger said on Twitter.

Campaigners launched their protests at the start of morning rush hour traffic.

They glued themselves to the street surface, halting traffic across the Berlin, including on the city's busy A100 motorway.