Why street lights on all night?

[clumsy bastard]

if it was a non sentient lamp post?

[dennis]

Having ripped half my mouth open on a washing line as a kid I can tell you that you don't avoid them if they are there. They are impossible to see and you sure as hell can't hear them.

[dennis]

If your dipped lights illuminate 400 yards away I suggest you get them adjusted.

[Rod]

Teach it phenomenology, Doolittle.

[dennis]

"nightjar.me.uk>"

There is a big glass and plastic housing at the top of those steel poles where radio signals work quite well.

About ten years ago I put forward a proposal for data access by putting radio and/or IR transceivers in the lamp housings and offered lamp control and monitoring as an inducement to get them fitted. You can a mesh running down the street and picked up the service with a box on the houses. It was decided not to invest in it.

[The Natural Philosopher]

God, lost count of how many of the things I have hit. Partridge and pigeons too..and bunnies.

One phaasant hit with a hell of a thump and I thought 'dinner' and stopped ..but couldnt find it.

I did 3 weeks later when I washed the car. Rammed into the radiator grille.

[Mark Evans]

Or it could mean that illumination encourages more crime than it discourages.