Walking home, I encountered yet another of those Saturday Night Situations.
There's a shop up the road which, presumably for good reasons related to receiving deliveries when they aren't there, has a couple of folded steel cabinets on the pavement. However the hinges seem to be a bit loose, so they use some bits of breeze block to keep the four doors shut.
Some imbecile had decided to relocate these in a staggered formation across the pavement after the manner of tank traps, but for the purpose of tripping up unwary drunk people, rather than tanks.
Why?
When some out-of-it clubber comes shambling down the road, trips over half a breeze block, and breaks their face on the pavement, the perpetrator won't even be there to see it.
So, why?
Anyway, I shifted them back to their rightful place (although they're still a potential trip hazard there, and I bet the business doesn't have the right to deploy them in the first place).
Still, why? Why try to hurt people you don't know and will never meet... and when you'll never even see their pratfall... when you aren't even trying to make a point?
The 9-11 guys were at least trying to make a point. The petty imbecile who distributed those chunks across the pavement doesn't even have that justification for his actions.
FWIW, thinking about all this on the rest of the walk home led me to a deep and (in my head) insightful analysis of the relative merits of the idealised forms of Socialism and Capitalism, and the further implications of the practical applications of those ideologies. However, I need to further consider the fact that there has never been an actual real-world application of Socialism. (Yet Capitalism is clearly subject to periodic fail on an epic scale, so that doesn't have anything to write home about either.)
I shall address this matter in more depth at a later date.
Until then, this is awesome (flickr video, SFW)
There's a shop up the road which, presumably for good reasons related to receiving deliveries when they aren't there, has a couple of folded steel cabinets on the pavement. However the hinges seem to be a bit loose, so they use some bits of breeze block to keep the four doors shut.
Some imbecile had decided to relocate these in a staggered formation across the pavement after the manner of tank traps, but for the purpose of tripping up unwary drunk people, rather than tanks.
Why?
When some out-of-it clubber comes shambling down the road, trips over half a breeze block, and breaks their face on the pavement, the perpetrator won't even be there to see it.
So, why?
Anyway, I shifted them back to their rightful place (although they're still a potential trip hazard there, and I bet the business doesn't have the right to deploy them in the first place).
Still, why? Why try to hurt people you don't know and will never meet... and when you'll never even see their pratfall... when you aren't even trying to make a point?
The 9-11 guys were at least trying to make a point. The petty imbecile who distributed those chunks across the pavement doesn't even have that justification for his actions.
FWIW, thinking about all this on the rest of the walk home led me to a deep and (in my head) insightful analysis of the relative merits of the idealised forms of Socialism and Capitalism, and the further implications of the practical applications of those ideologies. However, I need to further consider the fact that there has never been an actual real-world application of Socialism. (Yet Capitalism is clearly subject to periodic fail on an epic scale, so that doesn't have anything to write home about either.)
I shall address this matter in more depth at a later date.
Until then, this is awesome (flickr video, SFW)
indeed 
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