PMSL! I like this comment underneath the story 

Perhaps the swimmer caught sight of Sam Brick across the Thames and simply had to reach her to buy her a coffee.

 Hilarious comments!

"Please don't give this idiot any publicity.... he ruined the race, which is one of our national treasures. What a total let down for all the people who have worked so hard for so long. May he be shamed for the rest of his miserable life."

"How long has this boat race been run? Over a hundred years I'd say and it has taken until now for an idiot to interfere with the race. It shows how this country is now breeding uneducated idiots at such a rate we could start a creditable export industry. Total disrespect as we see in the news everyday."

It is at times like this I wish this country still had the birch. That swimmer needs a good thrashing.

- Joseph S., Nr. Birmingham, 7/4/2012 15:40

Get him on the Olympic team 

Legend

- Laurence, Grantham, 7/4/2012 15:03

... he got 121 thumbs down.

Was laughing at similar on Twitter.. in amongst all the " Oh I say, I'm incandescent with rage " etc was a wee guy that has to be Glaswegian saying " haha, mad rocket swimming in among the boats and shit!" !

This chap eh??

I didn't realise how serious this story was until I saw how expensive it is to replace a monocle 

Them poor, poor DM readers 

Good on him  

Har har! Made me laugh and then one lot broke an oar or whatever they are called and they were all greetin'.

Apparently his name is Trenton Oldfield ex public school/LSE. His blog  ELITISMLEADSTOTYRANNY includes: "Our current disorganisation and indirection is an advantage. In the past, guerrilla tactics have been employed by small groups of people. Today there is the opportunity to also undertake this alone, as an individual. Part of my inspiration for today’s action comes from a protest action that took place 99 years ago – when Emily Davison ran into Epson Derby race. On the 4 June 1913 Emily ran into the horse that the king had entered. She died from the injuries sustained from action. She was demanding rights for women. It was an individual act born of a political and philosophical position. This action is also part inspired by the anti-imperialism activists and guerrillas. This includes trans-Atlantic slaves who not only forced their freedom by revolting but undertook tactics of breaking tools, working slowly, acts of sabotage, feigning illness and maintaining their cultures. They found ways to continually undermine the system in small and large ways."

Good post Soops

More acts of possible civil disobedience: 

If you are a taxi driver can you take the passenger the slowest possible and most expensive route?

Erm.... taxi drivers already do this don't they??

I had to laugh at some of the suggestions muf, think he must have consulted the Malory Towers book of pranks! This one was particularly 'hard core' Are there networking events designed for the elites and their sympathisers where you could let off a stink bomb?

It's all very well for you lot to laugh ... but Oxford lost

Not that I care really ... I am definitely Town, not Gown

This is bigger than a boat race Rexxicle; this is another chance to laugh at DM readers

 Hiya btw

I had to laugh at some of the suggestions muf, think he must have consulted the Malory Towers book of pranks! This one was particularly 'hard core' Are there networking events designed for the elites and their sympathisers where you could let off a stink bomb?

Power to the people Soops!!

Shame the oar didn't get broken over his head. They should have left him in the water, not stopped the race to fish him out.

I'm not a DM reader, nor am I 'incandescent with rage', but I don't think this guy should be celebrated or given any publicity.

Not even if he was trying to smash the elitist system Kat?

Don't Oxbridge have to take a higher percentage of applicants from state schools now muf?

I know Rexicle, it's PC gone mad I tells ya

ahhhhh ...

No, I don't think he'll have achieved anything by doing this, other than the obligatory Twitter storm. The rowers train hard for this, and for him to attempt to spoil it.......I don't agree with it.

Elitist system? British tradition I would have said as me and my very ordinary family used to love to watch it every year, all the boys and men supported Oxford and the girls and women supported Cambridge, friendly rivalry and another date in our Calendar, like the Grand National, the Derby, Wimbledon, Royal Ascot etc.  And we were the rule rather than the exception.  And none of us ever even went to university.  Ah well just another opinion on it.

Same for me too, Squiggle. Glad I'm not alone, lol.

Not really a British tradition, more of an Oxbridge tradition that got its self on the BBC really.

Kat me too

I really couldn't care less about the boat race.  Not watched in years and about as interesting as all the other crappy sports the BBC televise like golf, darts and snooker.  It livened a rather dull event up.

i think it is suspicious that it is always the same two teams in the final

i spy a conspiracy

One of those traditions we're told to like as it's supposedly part of our culture.  Most people really couldn't care less but stick themselves in front of the telly because it's a one off and they might have money on it.  I'm sure it attracts its fair share of wannabe toadies to the class system who love all that elitist upper class 'season' stuff.

Exactly 

Bit like the SPL  

Like the Grand National, FA Cup Final, Last Night of the Proms ... I could go on for hours

Ha ha, the DM is a magnet for nut jobs.  Although how a graduate of the LSE can be described as 'uneducated' only a DM reader would know. 

His profile reads like a rich boy kicking against the establishment he's really part of and will probably join in a few years down the line.  Fair enough I suppose but protesters can't win.  If they're rich they're champagne socialist, lazy, trustafarian rich boys and if they're poor their uneducated scrounging, chavs. 

I think you'll find that the FA cup final is a northern tradition that the southerners sometimes take part in Rexicle

Don't you be getting all north/south on me young man - I'm sure that, once in a while, a northerner gets into Oxbridge and gets into the boat race team 

We don't need your southern charity lass 

Anyhow I've got t' mill to walk to...bare foot...in't snow an'all! 

Nutty man

am loving #shockandoar ... very clever!!

Sometimes even northerners don't take part either