Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and Monty Python is the new Nostradamus;
Hundreds of pom-poms and knitted items have been strung from trees and lampposts to help reduce the fear of crime in an area of Leicester.
Don’t ever let them take your guns.
And yes we do pay for this madness.
Fortunately out in the countryside where there are the last bastions of the English clinging on, we do hold on to our guns, purely for vermin control you understand, purely vermin control and a bit of clay for practice, no fun involved.
Mind wished I’d held the curser before groaning when it was a Biased Broadcasting site. Cheers Kate!
“Some of the park’s users told BBC Radio Leicester the items – including tree warmers – do not make them feel safer.”
But criminologist Ms.Bilby disagrees. Get with the picture you bloody paranoid idiots! If pom-poms in trees can’t make you safe, what in hell do you think CAN!
I’m going to start knitting right now,for Jane and Finch.
So this is what P.T.S.D. looks like?
The great British thinkers and scientists such as Newton, Cavendish, Faraday and Touring must be spinning in their graves at the illogic behind this plan.
Were I to feel threatened by predators (bipedal or quadripedal) I would reassure myself with cold steel not yarn.
On the bright side, the smaller song birds will have lots of ready-made nests available this spring.
This seems related to vomiting or peeing on a potential rapist to “turn him off”
The ruling class are as mad as the inbred aristocracy.
Crime is cured with law enforcement, not neurotic placebos – but that is only in a sane world – the laws of nature and logic no longer function in Britain.
But what if someone stashes fresh fruit in a pom-pom and then lures you into the park? What if they attack with a banana? When you’re walking home and some homicidal maniac comes at you with a bunch of loganberries, then what do you do? What government agency can come to your help?
Oh, the inanity!
Gangs of feral Muslims are scared to death by hand knitted tree decorations. This has been proven time after time.
Never thought I’d see the perfect application for that unique Brit word – “barmy”.
And to think we laughed at mediaeval peasants for having worn garlic cloves around their necks to ward off vampires. Plus ca change . . .
At least you’ll have something to look at while being raped or lying bleeding on the pavement.
Acting on the belief that elephants were frightened of pigs, The Roman Republican Army tried driving herds of swine into Hannibal’s lines of war elephants.
This did not have the desired effect, as the pigs were more frightened of the elephants than vice versa and promptly ran back through the Roman battle lines. The Romans, deciding that the problem was that the pigs were just not frightening enough, covered the pigs in pitch and set them on fire before repeating the maneuver. The pigs obliged by repeating their maneuver, scattering the Roman front lines before an onslaught of slow-roasted pork.
History does not record what the elephants thought of the whole business. Suffice it to say that the West has quite the history of own goals.
Well, that mumbo jumbo should work out well.
I dunno. I think a few convicted criminals hanging from the branches would have a much greater effect.
This is just an attempt to validate Yarn Bombing ,the very acme of pointlessness, Knitting snoods for trees and covering bike racks in leg warmers is a perfect example of a pointless leftoid action to avoid any real solution. This is the equivalent of really big puppets and street theatre that underlies the progressive protest marchs’
Next will come an application for Grants to fund this pointlessness under the rubric of “uniting nieghbourhoods”!
“Pulling the wool over the eyes” of the citizens, a time honoured practice of corrupt governments everywhere.
“Don’t ever let them take your guns.”
Confiscated long ago…
Absolutely amazing that such trash as this is being used to confront criminals….but then it isn’t to confront criminals, it’s to make the victims feel better as the criminals prey on them. How silly of me not to have recognized the application of the daily feel good drugs right away.
Accepting the same kind of stupidity prompted the OPP to paint the interiors of their holding cells pink years ago – the ‘ologists said it would have a calming effect on rowdy/violent arrestees.
As predicted by the rank-and-file, it did exactly the opposite. Instead, the detachments were treated to dusk to dawn howls of dersion: “Pink! you bunch of ^&$($#g ______s”!!!
Thinking back, this might have been an early indicator of the Force’s slide from enforcement to ‘peace-keeping”. Be a great title for a treatise: From Coral Cells to Caledonia
“Don’t ever let them take your guns”
First step, don’t let them know you have guns.
Leicester stopped being part of England a generation ago. And we all know what kind of vibrant diversity has made it into such a great place now.
…first you have to bait them in
This could actually work.
Say you are criminal and walk into this neighborhood looking for some trouble or something to steal. The street is deserted but you sense something is amiss. You look around and notice that every single tree is festooned with pom poms and knitting!
I don’t know about anyone else but I would be running for my life before the lunatics come out of their houses and turn me into a virtual ball of yarn.
Britain, stupid little country.
What Canada will be once Pierre’s Pup is queen….
I’m waiting patiently until someone gets strangles by one of the hanging knitted scarves. Then we can ban knitting needles.
Any bets Ms Bilby doesn’t live anywhere near the shire?
Maybe I should knit some cozy’s for my 1911’s. That oughta make the lefties feel better about my right to own guns.
I can see our RCMP hanging pom poms in trees. It is safe, non confrontational and if they are lucky they would fall off the ladder and get disability and early retirement.
Much better than tasering Polish tourists!