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  1. Kirst
    Member

    I was going to put this in Wildlife Highlight of the Day, but then thought better of it.

    A colleague has just informed me that as he entered the bottom of the Innocent Tunnel on Friday afternoon, in addition to the usual pile of empty bottles and Party 7s, there was a huge cloud of flies around a pig's head. Being a numpty, he didn't report it to anyone.

    I've just reported it to the local team. Poor bloke having to send a team out to collect a pig's head. He says nobody else has reported it over the weekend, so either it's still there, or someone's taken a shine to it and taken it home.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. wee folding bike
    Member

    Was it Lord of the Flies?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. amir
    Member

    Didn't see that, though the party evidence was clear. No glass though, that's the main thing!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Oh dear...

    Did notice a number of empty 24-boxes of Tennents tins at the bottom of the tunnel on Friday morning, with the cans strewn around all over the place. I don't normally go this way so didn't realise this was a common occurence.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. ruggtomcat
    Member

    I thought it was, passed it a couple of mornings ago and decided 'nahh, cant be.' and carried on. Where on earth did they get it from?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. DaveC
    Member

    Next time I cycle past I'll have a butchers....

    I'll get my coat.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. Kirst
    Member

    Some time in the past couple of weeks someone has painted a figure on the ground in the tunnel, like a chalk outline of a body. This morning on my way to work via the tunnel there were a few people hanging around at the gate at the top, with something that looked like either a fancy camera or possibly surveyor's equipment, although I don't think they were surveyors. I've just come back the other way and just outside the bottom of the tunnel is what looked like a metal frame with some sort of gas or electric meter attached (this might just be a random dumping though), and some people hanging about in the tunnel. I think they were the same people who were there earlier this morning. They had a little wreath of twigs or something at the side of the tunnel and they were burning it.

    Do people who drive to work have this sort of excitement?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  8. spitters
    Member

    @DaveC - lol - no sit down, that was funny
    @Kirst - yes they go past Haymarket and wonder "just what the h£ll are they digging this up for AGAIN?"

    Posted 13 years ago #

  9. amir
    Member

    Kirst - I also saw someone with 2 tripods at the top of end of the tunnel. At thought it might be one of the photographers on this forum, but they seemed to be using a volvo estate so maybe not.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  10. Min
    Member

    Kirst, I just passed a group of people loitering about in the tunnel with some sort of tripod set up. The metal frame thing outside sounds like some sort of generator.

    Here is the tape figure.

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=746&page=57#post-46164

    Posted 13 years ago #

  11. kaputnik
    Moderator

    seemed to be using a volvo estate

    Sounds like WFB!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  12. DaveC
    Member

    Is no one thinking of stopping and politely asking whats going on? I asked the site engineers if they were constructing a ramp access to the North Edinburgh Sub cycle line, and they confirmed this. If you ask this group if they are surveying the tunnel for structural safety reasons, they may tell you the real reason.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  13. DaveC
    Member

    or.. perhaps they have heard about anth's new lights and are waiting like groupies???

    Posted 13 years ago #

  14. ruggtomcat
    Member

    I think its an art project, there is a sign at the top of the tunnel saying 'You are here 1-3pm, please go down the tunnel. Place is lousy with photographers and stuff, I recon ECA photography tutors have to look at a lot of moody shots of the tunnel...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  15. Kirst
    Member

    I'm pretty sure surveyors wouldn't be lighting fires.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  16. amir
    Member

    @Kaputnik - "WFB"?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFB

    I'll guess - World Fellowship of Buddhists

    Posted 13 years ago #

  17. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Or "wee folding bike!"

    I'm pretty sure surveyors wouldn't be lighting fires.

    Perhaps it is a Roman surveying methods re-enactment group?

    The bundles of sticks sounds a bit Lionel Blair Witch to me.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  18. DaveC
    Member

    "I'm pretty sure surveyors wouldn't be lighting fires"

    Its all about miss direction, away from being a nosey parker to being put right on what they are doing. Hence ask about something it could not be, to be given the actual reason.

    Dave (Cycleologict) C

    Posted 13 years ago #

  19. kaputnik
    Moderator

    An exorcism?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  20. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    DaveC - random speculation is much more fun, where's your sense of adventure?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  21. crowriver
    Member

    I reckon ruggtomcat hit it on the nail.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  22. chdot
    Admin

    "
    A few weeks ago I phoned to report, of all things, a pig’s head at the bottom of the Innocent Railway tunnel and it was removed within hours, and I regularly report glass on the Innocent path which is always dealt with within 24 hours.

    "

    http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/opinion/letters/letters_reward_high_standard_of_work_with_job_security_1_1966402

    Posted 13 years ago #

  23. gembo
    Member

    ChDot - the picture in that link juxtaposes the formerly fashionable olive green [or avocado] of the toilet pan with the now trendy Georgian Green of the front door.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  24. chdot
    Admin

    @Gembo

    I think one of us is colour blind.

    Posted 13 years ago #

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