Don't let mentally-ill protesters win

As the British would say, I was gobsmacked when I read this: "Just Stop Oil’s most miserable stunt yet"

Eco-extremist troupe Just Stop Oil has once again disrupted the smooth running of civilised society to remind us of the coming climate catastrophe.

This time, these silly middle-class twats chose Wednesday evening’s performance of Les Misérables for their latest piece of performance politics. And once again, they did so in order to demand that we all stop enjoying ourselves, just as they have done at art galleries, the tennis and, indeed, some traffic lights on the North Circular.

On this particular occasion, JSO activists achieved their disruption through the medium of glue, attaching themselves to the stage at the Sondheim Theatre right in the middle of Les Mis. Less Victor Hugo than Victor Uhu.

Miserable indeed were the targets of JSO’s theatre of the absurd – namely, the audience, who were promptly sent home. Some had no doubt gone to considerable expense in the hope of getting away for a few stolen moments of entertainment in the middle of our supposed oil-driven orgy of ecological desecration.

Emphasis mine.  Why should the theater-goers suffer?  I have to believe there is exactly zero percent chance an American audience would just pack up and forfeit both the cost of the ticket (about $100) and the principle of letting these clowns ruin an evening at the theater.  Man, I have to believe that.