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Activist-Comedian Interrupts VW Exec's Geneva Presentation to Install "Cheat Box"

posted by takyon on Thursday March 03 2016, @08:00AM   
from the defeat-device dept.

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Common Dreams reports:

In a slick protest and righteous reminder that Volkswagen has yet to leave behind its Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal, British activist and comedian Simon Brodkin sabotaged a VW presentation at the Geneva Motor Show Tuesday. As marketing chief Juergen Stackmann sang the praises of their new electrically powered Up! models, Brodkin ambled [1] onto the stage in VW-branded overalls, wielding a wrench and prop [labeled] "cheat box", and began climbing under the car to "fix it". "It's okay, I have the new cheat box", he calmly explained to the bewildered Stackmann. "No one's going to find out about this one."

[...] As Stackmann tried to haul him out from under the car--"It doesn't need a repair, it's a perfect car"--Brodkin referenced VW's [lying, disgraced] CEO with, "Mr. Müller says it's okay as long as no one finds out."

[1] Content is behind scripts. archive.is clears up that nuisance.

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• Re:US vs DERe:US vs DE (Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday March 03 2016, @08:29PM

  by edIII (791) on Thursday March 03 2016, @08:29PM (#313281)

  Not exactly violent either. From what I recall throwing shoes was a culturally based insult, and not intended to cause harm, but humiliation instead.

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• Re:US vs DE(Score: 2) by pgc on Friday March 04 2016, @08:31AM

  by pgc (1600) on Friday March 04 2016, @08:31AM (#313512)

  That was what they made of it, afterwards.

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