I'm a very slow/bad knitter but this sounds like case for reflective yarn bombing as demonstrated in Dumfries!
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Potentially lethal straps...
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Posted 6 years ago #
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"Indeed proper security is completely invisible and avoids all this daft pantomime"
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Add to all these factors the desperate plight of all public authorities in a risk-averse age, faced with the inevitability of legal action and huge penalties if they fail to implement recommended security measures and lives are lost as a result, and you have a situation where over-reaction to the threat of terrorism becomes almost inevitable. All the pressure is on the side of expensive and obvious security measures, and on the lavish demonstration that the authorities have made the safety of the public their “absolute priority”; although in truth, if the safety of the public was an “absolute priority”, we would not only ban motor transport, but ensure that no-one ever got out of bed in the morning.
In the real world, in other words, we make constant calculations of the benefits and risks of whatever action we undertake, even if only crossing the road to buy a coffee. In the wrong circumatances, motor vehicles kill; but we value the freedom they bring us so much that we tolerate an annual death toll on the scale of a 9/11 attack in Britain every year.
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/joyce-mcmillan-call-a-halt-to-the-security-culture-1-4541615
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