two years old, but still news...

[winterbadger]

A man rolled about on the ground having sex with a traffic cone as stunned youths watched in disbelief, a court heard yesterday.

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1145092002://

Comments

[puabi.livejournal.com]

Were all the youths stunned? Some at least were shouting encouragement.

All's I can say is -- good gravy!
lol

[xydexx.livejournal.com]

And I thought my fetishes were weird. -:)

[winterbadger]

Well, it was a traffic cone made of plastic. ;-)

[liatha.livejournal.com]

hmmmm... and we thought most british folks were uptight?

[winterbadger]

Naah. Known too many actual English people and Scots to think that. :-) I find Americans in general to be much more uptight than most of the denizens of the UK I've met.

[kevinrtaylor.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed that there were no photos of the traffic cone.

[winterbadger]

Especially since they also describe it as a bollard. Now, I pride myself on being conversant in British, but I've never encountered "bollard" (which I think of as being a large, solid, statoinary object, usually but not always used for securing ships to quays) being used as a synomym for "traffic come" before.

Now, I've never been up Calton Hill (I meant to with some friends in 1985, but we got tired before we got that far, and went somewhere else instead), but I don't see anything in the photos I can find on the web that looks like a bollard (well, the Dugwald Stewart mounment looks a little like a bollard). So I'm wondering whether this is just a usage I am shamefully unaware of. On an error.

But I did find this horrifying picture of the National Monument.
http://www.scotchproductions.com/IV03cr.jpg

[kevinrtaylor.livejournal.com]

To me, a bollard is something pretty permanently anchored to the ground, usually in concrete or cast iron.
Though http://www.barriersandbollards.com/ has a selection of retractable ones.

According to http://dictionary.reference.com/ :
1. Nautical. A thick post on a ship or wharf, used for securing ropes and hawsers.
2. Chiefly British. One of a series of posts preventing vehicles from entering an area.

Traffic cones on the other hand are moveable, often ending up on the heads of statues.

Nice shoes, by the way! ;-)

[winterbadger]

[bollards] OK, I'm not crazy then :-)

[shoes] Yes, aren't they stylish! ;-)

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

So, when are you guys going to model them for me? The shoes, that is!