Just-Stop-Oil halts all protests after being pummelled by mob of enraged Bob Ross fans

In a surprise turn of events, a Just Stop Oil protest at the Bob Ross exhibition in his birth town of Daytona Beach (FL) turned into a bloody affair after local fans took matters in their own hands. In the aftermath, authorities are wondering if art-vandalizing JSO protests have gone too far, or if Bob Ross is the one artist they simply shouldn't have messed with?

Our local reporter had been present at the exhibition opening, a special event in honour of Bob Ross' passing 30 years ago. This unique show brings together his most famous 2,500 works, many of which have only been seen on worldwide television networks several hundreds of times. The crowds had just started spreading around the gallery halls, when a loud bang sounded near one of the Mountain Retreat works of art.

"It was horrible, I was standing right next to them!", says curator Abigail (63), still covered in orange paint and blood. "This skinny young man walks up to one of my personal favourites, Mountain Hideaway In Autumn, and violently splashes a wallop of Indian Yellow on the canvas. Even master Bob himself wouldn't have been able to scrape that little mistake off and start over!". She shows us the damage, which is extensive. "Had the man used Yellow Ochre, his choice could have worked for the palette, but no. This ghastly young man clearly had no good intentions! This is when I headbutted him on the nose as hard as I could!"

Within a matter of seconds, a burly young man stepped forward towards the JSO group, yelling "Meet my little friend here, accidents are gonna happen!" showing what looked like a spiked knuckle duster. He smacked down one protestor with a cracking blow, and while he was strangling the second it became clear the other Bob Ross fans present were not going to stand by idle. "You can do anything you want to!", chanted one as he pummelled a protestor over the head with his own paint can.

The protestors were chased past the Spring Meadows and Ocean Seascapes sections, only to find themselves surrounded by the "Bob Mob" in the Winter Waterfalls cul-de-sac. In the mayhem that followed orange paint flew everywhere in a scene most resembling a Hollywood saloon fight. The JSO crew were eventually thrown out the front door with loud cheers from the crowds that had gathered.

Later in the afternoon, we look up the JSO group near their van, at safe distance from the venue. "It's a miracle no one got killed today", says one young man, with both eyes swollen. "One of those maniacs stuck fan blender brush in my neck while screaming I should relax and let it happen. What's wrong with these people?!"

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