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How often have you spotted a pair of gym shoes dangling by their laces from an overhead telephone wire or other type of cable that spans the width of a street? These hanging shoes are often used to mark out drug dealing or other gang related territory.
Dangling trainers will become short lived with
the introduction of Knife Edge Wires. These are transmission wires that have been generated in a flattened format instead of the usual round profile. The ribbon edges are then hardened and serrated.
From now on, the swinging action of anything draped over this type of wire will come to a comparatively rapid end, as the sharp edges of the wire gradually eats through the offending strands or laces.
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Better yet...
Old-Tennies_20Street-Lights
install lighting in old pairs of shoes, powered by induction, installed in the usual manner. [FlyingToaster, Jun 25 2020]
Dielectric Strength Values of Several Plastics
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First of all I have direct experience of living in
streets marked out by hanging shoes by
paramilitaries, some of whom I went to school with
and played football with in the neighbourhood
park. Secondly, the centre part of the wire that
carries the signal is unaffected by having two
serrated edges. A ribbon wire will twist and turn
and never remain completely static, same as an
elastic
band won't maintain its flatness over distance.
(Now I know why 8th took a break..... I may join
him as this place is really tiresome now. There's
little humour; or comprehension of irony. Come
back Max!) |
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Cue, arms race: kevlon-reinforced shoelaces |
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Workers would have to wear steel mesh gloves and body
armor to avoid being cut. |
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Perhaps new cables could be sleeved in an electrically
conductive product that insane current could be run through
to temporarily heat it and burn through the shoelaces. |
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Excellent, and educational. I've seen them before and didn't
know how or why they got there. This will satisfy my curiosity
and the point will be moot. Win-win I don't believe the other
explanations. |
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A really edgy magnetic field material? to release electron hangups. |
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Surely a more logical solution is to mandate a
minimum weight for shoes, to make them too heavy to
throw over overhead wires or, if a person was
successful in throwing them that high, heavy enough
to weigh the wires down such that the shoes could
easily be removed by someone of average height? |
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An alternative solution would be to have the cable
covered by rollers. Without the friction of the laces
on the cable, the shoes would become unbalanced
and slide off immediately or after some time. |
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This just made me want to hang a fluorescent tube from high tension power lines. Suitable heavy arrow, very non conducting cable and attached tube. And of course, a good shot. |
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//Bad for bird feet// Rubbish. I'm a life long
member of the RSPB and would never post an idea
that would be harmful to any bird. They might
land on it and feel a bit uncomfortable then take
off again, but birds are smart enough not to
remain clinging on to something that is causing
them an injury. Shoes, by contrast have little wit,
and will remain until their laces are severed. |
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//I'm afraid 8th has taken off to the same place as
Max.// How do you know this? [kdf] |
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Surely if we just removed the insulation from the wire &
perhaps upped the voltage a little ordinary wire would suffice. |
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Assuming sufficient ocasional blusteriness to allow the shoes
to bridge between two adjacent wires once in a while of
course. |
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Reminds me of a sad case or actually two. As an officer in
the Israeli army, I was serving in the ancient city of Hebron
in 1988 or 89. This city had expelled its Jews under the
early Roman Christian rule around 300 CE and then had a
small population of Jews under the Muslim rule since the
takeover around 690. The Jews were allowed to go up to
the 7th step of the Hassmonian and then Herodian fort on
the "Cave
of the Patriarchs". In 1929 the Arab mob slaughtered the
Jewish residents of Hebron entering the religious school
(Yeshiva) and the students believing they should continue
studying the holy words just kept on studying while their
throats were slit. The Jews fled, and then there were no
Jews living in
this Jewish city until 1967 following the Six Day War. |
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The renewed Jewish presence in the city
was attacked time and again, and around that time there
were three young American Jewish students murdered one
of them stabbed in the stomach followed by a horriffic
death. |
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So I felt quite right in being the
Jewish force watching over the small Jewish population.
And at that time, the Arab residents were mostly friendly,
many working in day Jobs in the Jewish towns, and most
speaking good Hebrew. |
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At that time I felt we were a true democracy and that given
the chance, the Arabs or more precisely the Muslims could
live with us under fair rule with
equality, better than anything they would ever offer us. |
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It was way before Goldstein, before the Oslo accords and at
the beginning of the first Intiffaddah Arab uprising. They
were throwing shoes on the electricity and telphone lines
with attached PLO flags writing graphiti. A particularly large
writing calling for the murder of Jews was next to a gas
station on the new road to Jerusalem. In the gas station was
the owner, an elderly respectable and quite heavy man
sitting in a rocking chair. I spoke to him firmly with my gun
in back, and gave him an hour to clean it up, thinking he'd
send a worker of his. He came himself with blue paint (the
color of the Israeli flag), and was going over the writing
repeating the letters, making them even bigger. At first
when I saw him I was surprised, but then when I realized
what he was doing I was impressed, remembering the Life
of Brian. He saw my smile and smiled back. But I told him I
can't leave it like this. So I took the paint and wrote in giant
Hebrew letters Rotzim Shalom (we want peace. It remained
there for several years.) A day later the newspapers had big
headlines about Shulamit Alony, the head of the left party
saying that she was shown that the Arabs began writing
Rotzim Shalom, and that it started in Hebron and was
copied to many other places.... |
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Later on that day we were driving through a nice looking
area and I saw a large PLO flag dangling from a pair of shoes
on a telephone line. Some kids had started building a
roadblock but dispersed when we came. At the intersection
a short man in his 40s remained. I asked him what he was
doing and he, perhaps mocking my lame Arabic, answered
that he was a teacher (I meant to ask what he was doing
THERE). I told him to get the flag down. How? he asked. I
gave him a long wooden stick we had in the jeep and I
rolled a large metal barrel over. He got up on the barrel and
started trembling. I remember myself thinking "what is he
scared of". He picked the stick up towards the flag and then
I realized he was afraid of being electricuted. I started
saying that there is nothing to be afraid of, its not an
electric line, and he's using a wooden stick but then noticed
his wet pants. I'm embarrassed to say that I frequently
change the ending in my mind to a hug that I gave him, but
in truth he pulled the flag down, and the two officers, me
and my collegue (who was an aspiring leftist polititian -
don't ask me what he was doing there or why, I was a right-
wing religious-party voter) embarrassed, drove off. |
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{Insert respectful silence here ... } |
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... huh, I feel like I've just had a beer with an interesting
person at an airport bar half-way around the world. |
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on the idea, You can hang a reasonable weight off shoelaces
over a pretty sharp knife with no real cutting.
Installer/repair technician injuries would certainly increase
however. Maybe just have no overhead wires? There are so
many in the US, you become blond to them, only a trip to
England reminds me how ugly they are. |
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//you become blond to them// |
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See!?! Another effect of EMF radiation! Hair discoloration! |
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Reminds me of the home made bolos I made with some bailing
twine & two half bricks, the ones with the holes through
them, that thing sat on those wires for four or five years
before the frosts finally rotted the twine through. |
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I would like the screen rights to [pashute's] life please. |
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//bailing twine & two half bricks,// |
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Bailing WIRE and you're onto a real weapon. There's
something about the half-brick as a projectile. It might
be just the right size/weight for a human throw,
availability etc. As a younger chap I once made one
disappear over the horizon. We welded a spark plug into
an old cast iron gas pipe, filled it with oxy-acetylene mix
and hammered a soft old half brick down inside with a
scaffolding pole until we felt some compression. We hid,
cranked the van and Whoooshhh! It wasn't mentioned on
the news, so I guess we just bombarded a bit of field, it
went an awful lot farther than we thought though. |
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Correction...I want the movie rights to [bs0u0155]'s childhood. |
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//an elderly respectable and quite heavy man sitting in a
rocking chair// |
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The character you describe reminds of a Palestinian I was
working with last year, here in Australia. Obviously not
the same person (wrong generation, different life
history), but he had a similar attitude. |
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It occurred to me that he might be touched by your story. |
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Would you be at all interested in making contact with
him, if it could be arranged? |
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The 'flag' story is funny. Any attempt at removing
flags where I live results in twice as many being
put up by the next day, and this can keep
escalating. Flags are ephemeral and in my
experience it's best to just look the other way
when you see ephemeral things you don't like. |
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[xen] do you play the "I spy book of flegs" game with extra points for seeing a new design that no-one has ever seen before? |
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I have seen many flag variations..... |
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