Roland Perry wrote in message ...
In message , Ian
Johnston writes
Or that the "resource" they are missing is floodlighting?

A very, very, very, very poor substitute for sunlight.

What to the police do north of the Arctic Circle? Hibernate?

Make the best of a bad job? Seems to me that there is a weeny
difference between waiting a few hours for enough daylight to do a
good job and waiting several weeks or months.

if you came home at midnight and saw water coming froma blocked
gutter, would you immediately shin up a ladder - ather than wit till
the morning - because that's how they do things in Reykjavik?

Ian

In message , Ian
Johnston writes
if you came home at midnight and saw water coming froma blocked
gutter, would you immediately shin up a ladder - ather than wit till
the morning - because that's how they do things in Reykjavik?

I've been called out at 2am to inspect leaking gutters at the workplace
I was responsible for; if that helps.
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Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote in message ...
In message , Ian
Johnston writes
if you came home at midnight and saw water coming froma blocked
gutter, would you immediately shin up a ladder - ather than wit till
the morning - because that's how they do things in Reykjavik?

I've been called out at 2am to inspect leaking gutters at the workplace
I was responsible for; if that helps.


And you repaired them there and then, did you, leaving no part of the
job until the morning?

Ian

In message , Ian
Johnston writes
I've been called out at 2am to inspect leaking gutters at the workplace
I was responsible for; if that helps.

And you repaired them there and then, did you, leaving no part of the
job until the morning?

We did what was necessary to keep the (24x7) workplace running normally
until further notice - the other option being to abandon ship. And then
fixed it properly later. In the case of the trains, what is missing is
the "restoring normal operation" aspect.
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Roland Perry

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:09:21 +0000 someone who may be Roland Perry
wrote this:-

In the case of the trains, what is missing is
the "restoring normal operation" aspect.

I think the problem is that the trains are not considered important
by the police. The utterances of our unlearned friend Mr Hidden
don't help.


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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 07:08:25 UTC, David Hansen
wrote:

: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:09:21 +0000 someone who may be Roland Perry
: wrote this:-
:
: In the case of the trains, what is missing is
: the "restoring normal operation" aspect.
:
: I think the problem is that the trains are not considered important
: by the police. The utterances of our unlearned friend Mr Hidden
: don't help.

If a body was found in suspicious circumstances at 1am on the M8, do
you think the police would cover stuff up with plastic and wait until
after the morning rush hour to look for evidence?

Ian

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If a body was found in suspicious circumstances at 1am on the M8, do
you think the police would cover stuff up with plastic and wait until
after the morning rush hour to look for evidence?

Not a particularly good example. There are numerous examples of fatal
crashes in which the evidence is dragged off the road within hours -
basically as soon as the ambulances are gone.

'Getting the traffic flowing' is seen as a priority on the roads - even
where some effort at investigation is made, often one or two lanes will be
open. There doesn't seem much concern for disturbing potential evidence
there.

Richard

On 12 Feb 2004 09:00:57 GMT someone who may be "Ian Johnston"
wrote this:-

If a body was found in suspicious circumstances at 1am on the M8, do
you think the police would cover stuff up with plastic and wait until
after the morning rush hour to look for evidence?

You fail to spot the fundamental difference. If one was to build a
bridge over the surface of the M8 that motor vehicles could use then
one would have a comparable situation. The height of this bridge
above the road surface being the same as the difference in level
between the ballast and rail head.


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(Ian Johnston) wrote in message . com...
Roland Perry wrote in message ...
In message , Ian
Johnston writes
Or that the "resource" they are missing is floodlighting?

A very, very, very, very poor substitute for sunlight.

What to the police do north of the Arctic Circle? Hibernate?

Make the best of a bad job? Seems to me that there is a weeny
difference between waiting a few hours for enough daylight to do a
good job and waiting several weeks or months.

if you came home at midnight and saw water coming froma blocked
gutter, would you immediately shin up a ladder - ather than wit till
the morning - because that's how they do things in Reykjavik?


Well, Reykjavík is a pretty bad example, it is not within the arctic circle.