Pump price protester plucked from roof
BY HEATHER AUGUSTYN
Times Correspondent | Tuesday, May 06, 2008 | 51 comment(s)
VALPARAISO | Jay Weinberg took protests of high gasoline costs to new heights Monday afternoon at the corner of Silhavy Road and Ind. 2. (Watch the video.)
The Valparaiso resident used a megaphone to decry soaring pump prices from the roof of the Family Express gas station. Weinberg, who was led away by police, had reached the roof with the help of a friend with a dump truck.
"Price gouging, so we're shouting, who's jacking up the cost of fuel. I can't afford it, I'm banging on my dashboard, I can't believe they think I'm a fool," sang Weinberg, a musician who led about 20 friends in song in the station's parking lot below. The protest also attracted dozens of onlookers at the busy intersection at rush hour.
Weinberg said he realizes that the stunt, which stopped traffic along Ind. 2 and created traffic jams along Silhavy, will not bring fuel costs down, but he said he has another motive.
"The voice of the people is unheard," shouted Weinberg from the top of the gas station's roof. "We have no outlets and you have to do something dramatic before people notice," he said.
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