Vulture Central on total G20 terror lockdown Readers concerned for the safety of El Reg operatives, who will this week selflessly risk life and limb by entering Central London during the G20 summit, should rest assured that measures have been taken to mitigate the threat posed to national security and world order by malodorous, dreadlocked crusties deploying packs of dogs …
We had much the same thing in Edinburgh during the G8 a couple of years back. The polcie were very good, they herded the annoying people into one street - however they forgot to inform the businesses on that street that thats what they would be doing - we were locked in from just before lunch to just after 4pm.
Bloody starving, we all were.
Although, on the plus side, we did get quite a lot of photos onto the BBC web-site, seeing as we could just lean out the window and take them.
We've all been locked out of the computer room for the duration! Unless something catches fire only the security officer is allowed in! Pain the bum to do any hardware admin.
As for dressing down, balls to 'em! I only own about heavy metal t-shirts, two pairs of shorts and 5 pairs of DMs, so I cannot dress down else I will get a dressing down!
...our lovely resident Moderatrix.
Hallo Ms Bee :-)
We have similar things here - have been advised to come in wearing casual clothing, as opposed to suits.
So no change required for me, he says, picking up his leather jacket and putting his zippo into the pocket of his faded jeans....
Steven R
I would like to see Register coverage (interviews, photos, playmobile) of the aforementioned "soap-avoiding alternative lifestyle embracing brave protesting underdogs." Having shared a flat with a know-nothing anti-capitalist anti-globalization anti-reason activist I know they can be quite entertaining.
Am I actually working at Vulture Central? :
Extra Security arrangements have been made for Swanky Office In Canary Wharf on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd April. These include:
Additional 24 hour security; extra Security presence in front of ground floor reception
No entrance to building without ID
All visitors to be verified against daily client log, before allowed entry to reception.
Couriers will not be allowed to stop outside the building and will be vetted outside the building before being admitted to reception
No parking, or waiting for couriers, or cabs, will be allowed directly outside reception
Please postpone or reschedule any client meetings or visits from people outside the agency.
Ho Hum... I'm more impressed with my alternative route to work, which involves boats :)
(Posting anonymously for obvious terror-avoiding reasons)
As a fellow central London worker, I am glad that for this break in regular London life I'm currently away in Germany on business. Although the measures sound very similar to a security warning that I also received. Apparently though, since we share a building with various government departments, we are on a high risk list.
Still awaiting details on a fallout shelter under the main building for such times of emergency and to be used as a smoking room otherwise (lung-cancer addicts unite!).
I'm pretty sure this is going to suck, all this hype and I bet nothing happens. The only way this will ever be the start of anything remotely interesting is if you can get Rage Against the Machine to play for McKinnon during the G20 protest.
I'm pretty sure that'll be the only catalyst we need to get us going on a full scale revolution. Handily we can get Obama to be our new PM till we find a better set of clowns to look after us.
I particularly liked the advice to dress down, specifically - "eg loafers and chinos". I don't think the soap-dodgers will see through that disguise at all.
Frankly I'm with Fraser - I think a nice pin-stripe complete with bowler hat and cane will work as a double bluff, sort of reverse psychology. You could almost pretend to be a protester. However chances are they'll be too busy kicking in the windows of various capitalist (boo-hiss) ventures such as Maccy-Dee's or BuckStar.
I have to say, for anti-establishment, anarchistic nuts, they seem very organised - so far I know where they'll be, what time and what they'll be doing...
AC cos technically I'm a banker. Or at the very least employed by a "high target" bank.
The pin-stripe one please...
I'm afraid that would only encourage me, and I'm quite undesirable.
So the ladies tell me. Is that a compliment.
Incidentally, I just saw a colleague dressed to the nines in a sharp, dark suit. I suggested he might be crusty-baiting, and he consistently denied it.
Although the thought of getting the RBS logo monogrammed on the breast and taking a run down through the city gave us a snigger.
Fun and games...
Steven R
Does this mean I can grab a few mates around with a few beers like we used to when the Mayday riots happened?
Great viewing on Sky and when the sky cam bloke wa getting beat up you could switch to teh BBC filming the skycam guy being beat. and vice versa...
All this was before all this digital TV multiangle rubbish.
All we need is Delboy in his car to turn up wack the horn and seperate the protestors from the police.!
... get my chauffeur to drop me in the middle of the crowd wearing one of my many Armani suits and carrying cigars rolled from the "please dont repossess my house" letters I get every day, carrying a BoomBox on my shoulder blasting out Rick Astley's Greatest Hits. How long do you think I'll last?
Although my work at the Rocket Group keeps me busy, I spend my off hours defending the planet from wicked aliens and engaging in some amateur photography.
On Saturday, I decided to wander down to Somerset House and the Embankment and take some pictures. Of course, I worse my standard outfit - dark trousers, black jacket, white dress shirt and a black raincoat. I also brought my Pentax 645.
Well, I realised when I arrived that I looked for all the world like a spy or a representative of one of the world's security services. The protesters gave me odd looks, the police gave me some very odd looks (no, I don't know you), but I did manage some dramatic pictures.
Methinks I enjoyed photographing the photographers most ... and they were most disturbed by my doing so.
Hear, hear! Love it when the anti-cap boys come out to play, oh the days of throwing photocopied money at them brings a tear to one's eye.
This year we have been barred completely from coming in as there is too much potential to provide a direct education for the free-loading masses on the day, shame really...
Free to do as you are bloody well told, now move along.
We all saw what happened in the US when people were allowed to exhibit civil disobedience. THINGS CHANGED.
This is unacceptable. How will we get the trucks filled with money to the Bankers' houses with all these tax-payers in the road?
It just concerns me that our honourable police force will be out of practice for this sort of thing.
See, when Maggie was in charge they all knew how to clobber protestors hard and charge them down with horses.
And tactically they appear to have got it all wrong too. The Met unleashing a riot on its own ground?
Oh, no,no,no Maggie would never have had that. One must ferry the police around the country, so that they never have to shit on their own doorstep where the community might recognise them.
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