Purple ribbon around the town

[Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt]

We've all seen it, tied pretty much around every lamp post, bus stop and road sign around the main town routes (especially the Weston Rd and near the hospital) - does anyone know if those who did the tying plan at any point to remove the ribbon and dispose of it properly and safely?

I ask this from a point of concern as a motorcyclist. The other day whilst riding along the Weston Road I got home and realised that some of this said ribbon had come off a lamp post and become wound around my front wheel. This could easily have become jammed in brake, suspension or gear linkages and caused an accident. Equally as dangerous I should imagine to pedal cyclists.
It is hardly the best way to go about keeping a hospital open, causing more A&E admissions...

I don't wish to sound like a kill joy, I respect the right of people to make a protest but I think it only fair for the amenity of the town (and road users) that this sort of stuff is removed within a period of time rather than just left to become the next littering problem or worse. Get it shifted.

 

[Hetairoi]

It is illegal to fix campaign posters for elections to lamp posts, I wonder if this come into the same category?

 

[proactive]

SBC and Cannock Chase DC both said that they would not be enforcing said law.

 

[Wormella]

Surely it's blue, not purple...

 

[Withnail]

Shurely its 'shurely', not surely...

 

[Goldilox]

Shurely its 'shurely', not surely...

Only when the editor gets back from lunch....

 

[Becky Draws]

Surely it's blue, not purple...

We one had a very long and boring argument once at a party about whether someone's jumper was blue or purple. It was late and we were drunk! It seems to be a common thing, mixing up blue and purple (those ribbons look blue to me too)

 

[John Marwood]

What colour is the officer's jacket in my avatar?

green or yellow?

 

[Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt]

Surely it's blue, not purple...

Perhaps the colour had become somewhat distorted from road dirt as I untangled the twine from my front wheel and mudguard - doesn't matter if it kills someone, so long as there isn't any degree of doubt with regards to the colour - thats the main thing

 

[Gramaisc]

Some of the material may have been subject to a bit of fading in the rather more intense than usual sunlight that we've had lately. Perhaps it's the older ribbons that look the most purpley - and might also be the most likely to come adrift..

 

[Sk84goal]

remove the ribbon and dispose of it properly and safely?
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Send for the SBC ribbon disposal team!

Don't worry Sir, I think it's just a normal ribbon, No wait get down it's gone purple!

 

[Gramaisc]

What a lax attitude to safety. They normally even wear fluorescent waistcoats when counting votes...

..can't be too safe..

 

[Gareth]

In all fairness such material should do no harm what so ever and one would have to consider themselves unlucky if it did. I have had pebbles on occasions caught between break and wheel of car and motorbike, so such material should have any impact on a motercycle or push bike to be honest.

This is the second batch of ribbons to be put up and the first lot were taken down but I guess it makes sense to to push the protest in many ways you can at the moment.

Where would we draw the line rubbish, leaves only just this morning past Trentham Gardens there was a big sheet of clear plastic blowing around the dual carriaeway. The ribbon has not been put in the road on purpose and to be honest I am more concenred with the amount wheel trims you find on a road because of people going to fast or hitting kerbs, far more dangerous.

Slight over reaction to ber honest more of a nuisance than a danger.

 

[Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt]

In all fairness such material should do no harm what so ever and one would have to consider themselves unlucky if it did. I have had pebbles on occasions caught between break and wheel of car and motorbike, so such material should have any impact on a motercycle or push bike to be honest.

This is the second batch of ribbons to be put up and the first lot were taken down but I guess it makes sense to to push the protest in many ways you can at the moment.

Where would we draw the line rubbish, leaves only just this morning past Trentham Gardens there was a big sheet of clear plastic blowing around the dual carriaeway. The ribbon has not been put in the road on purpose and to be honest I am more concenred with the amount wheel trims you find on a road because of people going to fast or hitting kerbs, far more dangerous.

Slight over reaction to ber honest more of a nuisance than a danger.

I'll remember that it is an"over reaction" anytime in the future I might find myself scooping my face off the road. On this occasion it had wound around my bike quite well - it may have been a one in a million / unlucky kind of thing and I don't suppose for a minute that anyone set out to cause harm but that doesn't make it any the less dangerous. Truth is foreign objects around the roads make it dangerous enough, especially on two wheels as it is without making the situation more hazardous.

As I said at the beginning I support the right to have a protest or make a point but in the same way as you would expect people making what you might call a traditional protest with banners and posters on a march to take their paraphernalia away with them then I don't see why the same rules shouldn't apply

 

[peggy]

well if you were to come off and heaven forbid you are injured lets hope its before 10pm or after 8am and A and E will be open, also lets hope its not serious because if the TSA recommendations go ahead as there may well be no critical care to support you.