Ahead of Super Bowl LVIII, pop sensation Taylor Swift famously took her private jet across the globe, leaving almost immediately from her concert in Tokyo to attend the game in Las Vegas in support of her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. And it sounds like that plane was targeted in a horrible act of vandalism – though the vandals ultimately failed to vandalize Swift’s plane.
On Thursday morning, the climate change protest group Just Stop Oil shared a video on social media showing two members of the group cutting a fence, breaking into the airfield, and spray-painting two of the planes with fire extinguishers filled with orange paint.
The group was seemingly targeting the jet belonging to Taylor Swift, which touched down at the airfield hours before.
“Jennifer and Cole cut the fence into the private airfield at Stansted where Taylor Swift’s jet is parked, demanding an emergency treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030,” Just Stop Oil said in a post on X, the social media website that was formerly known as Twitter.
🚨 JUST STOP OIL PAINT PRIVATE JETS HOURS AFTER TAYLOR SWIFT'S LANDS
🔥 Jennifer and Cole cut the fence into the private airfield at Stansted where @taylorswift13's jet is parked, demanding an emergency treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030.
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— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) June 20, 2024
The group explained the protest in a statement to The Independent.
“We’re living in two worlds: one where billionaires live in luxury, able to fly in private jets away from the other, where unlivable conditions are being imposed on countless millions,” the statement said.
“Meanwhile, this system that is allowing extreme wealth to be accrued by a few, to the detriment of everyone else, is destroying the conditions necessary to support human life in a rapidly accelerating never-ending ‘cruel summer’. Billionaires are not untouchable, climate breakdown will affect every single one of us.”
Obviously, this did a significant amount of damage to the planes that were vandalized, but Swift’s aircraft was not among them.
While the group was seemingly targeting Swift’s plane, police said that they were informed the pop sensation’s plane was not at the airfield at the time of the vandalism.
[Just Stop Oil, The Independent]
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