BATMAN sighted in England Protesting

[Doramius]

Good images at the website. And this happened only an hour or so ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3652502.stm

A Fathers 4 Justice campaigner dressed as Batman is staging a protest on the Buckingham Palace balcony.
Jason Hatch, 33, entered the grounds and scaled a wall at 1420 BST.

Police moved a crane and crash mat beneath the ledge at 1733 BST and a police officer wearing a harness and helmet is at the balcony window.

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens said if officers at the scene had judged the intruder a terrorist he would have been shot.

He has also described the security breach at the Palace as "unacceptable". He legged it past the armed guards

Matt O'Connor, Fathers 4 Justice


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Sir John said police made a split-second judgement that Mr Hatch was not a security risk because of the way he was behaving and the clothes he was wearing - and for this reason they did not open fire.


Click here to see protest location
The latest broaching of palace security follows other incidents, including one in which a reporter got a job as a royal servant. In addition, Prince William's 21st at Windsor Palace was gatecrashed.

And it is the latest in a series of high-profile stunts by Fathers 4 Justice costumed campaigners who have protested on the London Eye and the Church of England General Synod in York.

York protest

A police helicopter circled overhead as scores of people, including some protesters, gathered to watch from behind a police cordon.

Mr Hatch, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, stood on a ledge to the right hand side of the main balcony and unfurled a banner which read "Super dads of fathers 4 justice".

He is believed to have two children, aged four and five, who he has not seen for several years and is thought to have taken part in the York protest.

Also on the banner are the words: "Fighting for your right to your kids".

A group of Fathers 4 Justice campaigners are believed to have distracted police by climbing the front gate, while Mr Hatch climbed over the outer fence.

Fellow protester Dave Pyke, 48, dressed as Batman's sidekick Robin but was stopped by armed police as he tried to scale the fence.

He told BBC News Online: "We are totally untrained, just ordinary guys and if we can get in there, anybody can get in there."

Mr Pyke added he was surprised not to have been arrested. "I thought I would be pounced on by the police. I went over to the park and put on a coat and cap and came back," he said.

Group spokesman Matt O'Connor said the incident was to highlight Monday's court appearance of a campaigner accused of staging a flour-throwing protest in the House of Commons.

"This is planned to coincide with the trial of Ron Davies and the fun powder plot. I've literally come from the trial at Bow Street Magistrates today."

The Queen was not at the Palace as she is at Balmoral in Scotland, a palace spokeswoman said.

Fathers 4 Justice was set up by fathers who have either no access, or very limited access to their children, and feel they have been treated unfairly by courts.

If the Queen has heard about this, she would be absolutely livid

James Whitaker
Former royal correspondent

The Daily Mirror's former royal correspondent James Whitaker said palace staff were "gobsmacked" and Home Secretary David Blunkett had to take responsibility.

He told BBC News 24: "It's absolutely incredible that someone's managed to do this. This is the balcony where on the great days of state and when someone gets married in the family, they stand on this balcony and wave to everyone.

"It's a bit of a holy of holies there and if the Queen has heard about this, she would be absolutely livid."

Comedian trespass

Home Secretary David Blunkett is expected to make a statement on the incident to MPs on Monday evening.

Royal security was reviewed after Daily Mirror reporter Ryan Parry got a job at Buckingham Palace as a servant before President Bush stayed there last November.

A report was published a year ago into the breach of security during Prince William's 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle.

Comedian Aaron Barschak set off six alarms and appeared on CCTV several times without sparking a response when he gatecrashed the party at the castle, it found.

[yoda313]

Hello,

DC Comics Should SUE!!!

Kevin

[DVD_Ripper]

I never knew that Batman was such an international crime fighter.

[makntraks]

Pic...



makntraks

[bazooka]

Good thing he has a cape

[Doramius]

Did he use anything from his utility belt?

[yoda313]

Hello,

How do you think he got up there? His BAT ROPE!

Kevin

[gitreel]

Does someone have an anti-batman device to get him off the ledge?

[yoda313]

Does someone have an anti-batman device to get him off the ledge?

Hello,

What eats bats?? Anyone know????

Kevin

[gitreel]

Does someone have an anti-batman device to get him off the ledge?

Hello,

What eats bats?? Anyone know????

Kevin

Ozzy Osbourne

[yoda313]

Hello,

Or whos that other punker???? The one from Michigan who wears all the black paint and tattoos? He got in court for the alleged abuse of a stage crew person???

Kevin

EDIT - I'm thinking of Marilyn Manson - that freak!

[gitreel]

Hello,

Or whos that other punker???? The one from Michigan who wears all the black paint and tattoos? He got in court for the alleged abuse of a stage crew person???

Kevin

Are you talking about Alice Cooper?

[yoda313]

Hello,

Is it Alice Cooper??? I thought it was Marilyn Manson. Oh well, there both out there!!!

Kevin

[Capmaster]

Hello,

Is it Alice Cooper??? I thought it was Marilyn Manson. Oh well, there both out there!!!

Kevin

Marilyn Manson ripped off Alice Cooper. Alice was doing that stuff since the early '70s

[yoda313]

Hello,

Cap - which ones from Michigan????

Kevin

[Doramius]

Some owls are known to eat bats. Maybe they should get some HOOTERS girls to bring him down.

[Capmaster]

Hello,

Cap - which ones from Michigan????

Kevin

I don't know. I never researched either's background. I just love "Eighteen" and "School's Out"

[bazooka]

Hello,

Cap - which ones from Michigan????

Kevin

http://www.alicecooper.com/bio.html

[yoda313]

Hello,

Thanks B!

Kevin

[Capmaster]

The Alice Cooper story begins on February 4, 1948, in Detroit, Michigan, when Vincent Furnier, displaying the ear-splitting vocal calisthenics that would serve him well in the decades to come, came kicking and screaming into an unsuspecting world.

Guess that answers it. Thanks bazooka

[Doramius]

Isn't he or his father some sort of religious priest.

[flaninacupboard]

It's sad those guys have to go to such lengths to get their views heard. in a society that's supposed to treat both sexes equally they are getting a bum deal.

[Doramius]

It's sad those guys have to go to such lengths to get their views heard. in a society that's supposed to treat both sexes equally they are getting a bum deal.

I thought gays liked the BUM deal.