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Totally unbelievable but it also raises a couple of pertinent questions
1.Why when every inch of this motorway is covered by CCTV did no one notice this or recordings not pick it up?
2. Knowing that its not light here till about 7.30 is why did it take the highway authorities over 4 hours to remove them?
Obviously a cheap stunt by some arty folk!
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It's ironic that Keep Scotland Beautiful have become involved in this. They seem not to have noticed that someone had already dumped a motorway and a high concrete wall.
On balance I think the fridges are more beautiful.
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As Art they are better than the modern bronze `sculptures` that our cities have had to endure for the last 30yrs.
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Obviously "cubist" art....
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2. Knowing that its not light here till about 7.30 is why did it take the highway authorities over 4 hours to remove them?
Following logics of PCSO standing and watching how boy drowns incident and 23 hour closure of M25 to remove one overturned lorry earlier on this year I'll risk theory - it's because "first units that arrived at the scene were not trained in health and safety of handling kitchen equipment at high speeds and had to wait for specialized Little Chef certified unit to arrive from London" and "Highway Agency public liability insurance doesn't cover indidents involving potentially defrosted food"...
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you're not taking this seriously. There may be CFCs in there. That's hazardous waste. Got to be in full chemical warfare suit before you go near that! :-)
JH
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Any truth in the rumour that the hard shoulder is going to be renamed the cold shoulder?
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I think they looked pretty cool !
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Sadly, while spotted in the middle of the night, the dorks who retreive these things (in the middle of Glasgow City Centre), chose to scratch their heads and take hours, including the morning slow hour, to shut off a lane and further impede the traffic.
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out of hours there will be a limited call out service, with not many staff (for the road closures and removal of fly tipped rubbish). No doubt to lift the fridges, (which looked the full sized fridge freezer to me) you'd need some kind of grab on a lorry otherwise you risk some council worker doing their back in..or doing what i did 18 months ago and still suffering now (frozen shoulder after moving a wardrobe).
This lot won't be available in the middle of the night without spending an enormous amount of tax payer's money on emergency call out procedures.......hence the delay and wait until morning staff arrive, usually quite early to council depots
it's the same in many professions.......if you want middle of the night work done, it costs more money.....and if it belongs to the taxpayer, it should be spent as frugally as possible
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Three-ton box-body with tail lift. Park it on the roundabout or reservation or more or less on, stuck out into the carriageway a bit but so the traffic can squeeze past...
Even in morning rush hour, how long does it take three or four able-bodied council gorillas to heave three fridges (three fridges, heavens to betsy!) onto a tail lift, shove them inside and you know, go forth and multiply? Three minutes? Five? Not more surely.
Self-important semi-official carp, much of it illegal for all I know, seems to be all over all roads in London all the time.
I'm, er, not too keen on this trend which is far advanced.
Gasp! Choke!
(Has heart attack).
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What's more, from what I remember of the photo, they looked pretty good. If I'd been the council I would have thought of them as an artwork and left them alone.
Perhaps if we paint things prettily before dumping them in cheeky places we will brighten the place up a bit and start a new worldwide fashion.
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Lud - Listen to Ed Reardon's week on R4 I'm sure you'd enjoy it !
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