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[AW111]

wildcat45 said:

AW111 said:

Surely that pic needed a warning!

I'm still trembling a little, and my heart is racing.

As a former student and once proud owner of a British Gas flashing roadworks light I have to wonder what the average pissed undergraduate would give for the contents of that Disco. You could decorate so many bedrooms!

Those flashing lights!
Did you know that some reprobates would even get stoned and watch the flashes drift in and out of sync?

[wildcat45]

egor110 said:

How would you carry the cones home?

Obviously one you wear like a hat , 1 you carry and use like a megaphone , a 5 cone stack on your head would break your neck!

Well there were six lads in our house. So, I reckon allowing for some droppage, the odd cone left on the head of a Queen Victoria statue and bus stop, we could have had most of that adorning our kitchen before the sun rose.

[DonkeyApple]

AW111 said:

wildcat45 said:

AW111 said:

Surely that pic needed a warning!

I'm still trembling a little, and my heart is racing.

As a former student and once proud owner of a British Gas flashing roadworks light I have to wonder what the average pissed undergraduate would give for the contents of that Disco. You could decorate so many bedrooms!

Those flashing lights!
Did you know that some reprobates would even get stoned and watch the flashes drift in and out of sync?

Which detracted from establishing if time travel was actually plausible. The reality is that the flashing traffic light has clearly retarded society. Without it many of life's important issues would very clearly have been resolved by now.

[FiF]

Used to be a £60 fine for each item of road furniture removed, not many students knew that.

[BossHogg]

uncinqsix said:

I would have thought something like a Ford Ranger would be the obvious choice.

We've looked at that, apparently our vehicles team said it wasn't suitable, something about not having enough power or sturdy enough.

[BossHogg]

AW111 said:

Those flashing lights!
Did you know that some reprobates would even get stoned and watch the flashes drift in and out of sync?

They're sequential, they only flash in order, one flashes, the next one sees the flash then carries on the sequence. If you move one, they notice, then pick up the sequence again.

[egor110]

FiF said:

Used to be a £60 fine for each item of road furniture removed, not many students knew that.

as if that would of made the slightest difference.

[Tango13]

wildcat45 said:

AW111 said:

Surely that pic needed a warning!

I'm still trembling a little, and my heart is racing.

As a former student and once proud owner of a British Gas flashing roadworks light I have to wonder what the average pissed undergraduate would give for the contents of that Disco. You could decorate so many bedrooms!

There was someone near me that had a thing for 'keep left' traffic island bollards. There were a couple of mini roundabouts near my local pub and it was quite common to see 5 or 6 of them all stacked on top of each other on a Sunday morning.

[djc206]

egor110 said:

FiF said:

Used to be a £60 fine for each item of road furniture removed, not many students knew that.

as if that would of made the slightest difference.

Nope, we built this at university.



I'm not sure how my mate got the bin through the front door but it took some effort and a bit of frame damage to get it back out.

[wildcat45]

djc206 said:

Nope, we built this at university.



I'm not sure how my mate got the bin through the front door but it took some effort and a bit of frame damage to get it back out.

You're not called Dave are you? Did you do history and politics at uni? If so, hello mate.

The reason I ask is the bin. He had one like that in his kitchen over the normal
Bin. For a couple of years, the bin at the end of his road was without the cover. Feeling guilty, he returned it to its proper place at the end of his time at university only to be caught by a copper putting it back.

[DonkeyApple]

BossHogg said:

uncinqsix said:

I would have thought something like a Ford Ranger would be the obvious choice.

We've looked at that, apparently our vehicles team said it wasn't suitable, something about not having enough power or sturdy enough.

I think the ones down here are Hyundai or similar. Maybe you get Discos as the conditions can be a lot worse oop North?

[djc206]

wildcat45 said:

You're not called Dave are you? Did you do history and politics at uni? If so, hello mate.

The reason I ask is the bin. He had one like that in his kitchen over the normal
Bin. For a couple of years, the bin at the end of his road was without the cover. Feeling guilty, he returned it to its proper place at the end of his time at university only to be caught by a copper putting it back.

Not me I'm afraid, as you can see from the picture I'm not smart enough to have studied history or politics let alone both! I have a geography degree...

The council used to have an amnesty at the end of the year where they'd ask us to put our street furniture out and they'd collect it with repercussion.

[wildcat45]

We had amnesties for drink glasses.

Talking of walts there was one university security guard who took his uniformed job a bit too seriously. He so wanted to be a copper and he was convinced the girlies fancied him in his blue uniform. They didn't.

[FredericRobinson]

My bedside table was borrowed from a pub 25 years ago, the barstools that came with it are long gone. Bloody students.

[djc206]

wildcat45 said:

We had amnesties for drink glasses.

Talking of walts there was one university security guard who took his uniformed job a bit too seriously. He so wanted to be a copper and he was convinced the girlies fancied him in his blue uniform. They didn't.

We had one who lived on campus in a little bungalow outside which they stored all the crap recovered from halls. He put a single chain up with a no entry sign on it, we stole his sign. Watching him chase after people who were lazily reacquiring their booze trophies rather than acquiring new ones was brilliant.

[Henners]

Some chaps at my place got hold of a temporary traffic light (when they were cast in a block of cement, they were rugby boys), hauled it into their place and hooked it to the mains, worked briefly before going pop.

Naughty naughty boys

[BossHogg]

I once raided a regimental bar years ago to find a roof rack, complete with blue lights, air horns and Military Police signs. The little darlings had stolen them the week before whilst the patrol was dealing with a bar room brawl. We received an anonymous tip off over the phone as to were our roof rack was.

[hacksaw]

All units, stand-by, stand-by. This is a code beige warning. Storm Doris is getting blustery. Further reporting information to follow.

[RumbleOfThunder]

They will be gaggers to unnecessarily winch a small branch off the road, or test out their Disco snorkels in a puddle.

[Raddors]

hacksaw said:

All units, stand-by, stand-by. This is a code beige warning. Storm Doris is getting blustery. Further reporting information to follow.

We are upgrading to Code Brown here in Oxfordshire.