Immovable block

[ARWadsworth]

has refused to make our own web cam action on it.

But I do know someone with a JCB. Is that illegal?

[John Williamson]

No, but if you write "Irresistible force" on your T-shirt and push, things could get interesting.

[Clive George]

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Dunno, but if you do something like invert it, it would be quite funny yet not ruin their project. Assuming it's just a solid block.

[John Rumm]

>>>>> >>>>> gf has refused to make our own web cam action on it.

Lift it up, add a nice layer of epoxy, and put it down again. Now wait for them to come take it away ;-)

[Tim]

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Nah, it's probably got David Blane lurking inside with a trolley jack to move it in the night.

Tim

[Nightjar]

> >> gf has refused to make our own web cam action on it.

I am sure that owning a JCB is quite legal and they are asking for ways to move the block. I might cover the CCTV lens before doing so though. Naturally, that would only be as an artistic statement, not to avoid anyone seeing who moved it.

Colin Bignell

[Paul D Smith]

>>> >>>>> gf has refused to make our own web cam action on it.

Someone mentioned David Blane. Surely this leads to a large "flash mob" arriving, partying for 15 minutes or so all around the block thus obscuring sight of it when the mob melt always, the block is gone :-).

Acid would work but it's too slow and dangerous. Not sure that even something like a Kanga could break it quickly enough into small piece so each member could take one away. Ideas?

Paul DS

[Tim Lamb]

Why not paint *this way up* one night and the next night re-paint with the words inverted?

regards

[jgharston]

Presumably it was cast in place, then?

JGH

[Jules Richardson]

Hmm, who was that chap who was talking about pulling out tree stumps with the towbar on his car? He'll have it shifted in an instant...

[chrisj.doran%proemail.co.uk]

Chris

[Paul D Smith]

Like it! I saw some large Henry Moores at Hatfield House last year. They were "fixed down" by some rather large and nice bronze machine screws, a good few of which appeared to have been "collected" presumably as souvenirs.

Paul DS

[Huge]

That'll be me (among others). Except it's a Land Rover.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Just looked on the live feed, and there are 3 lads spraying graffiti on it at the moment...

[Adrian C]

Says something about CCTV on it.....

They've got a cleaning truck out.

[Nightjar]

I wonder if they expected this (which they really should have) and treated the block with an anti graffiti product that makes cleaning easier.

Colin Bignell

[Andrew Gabriel]

Cleaning truck just left, but there are still 5 blokes scrubbing hard on it, and the only bit they seem to have removed so far is the head of the figure sprayed on the right hand side.

I wonder how much this is costing Barnsley tax payers...

Oh, cleaning truck just returned, probably with a new box of brillo pads.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Looks like they've given up. There's something draped over the top, and a pom-pom dance band standing in front of it, dancing now.

[Nightjar]

Probably would have been easier to paint it all one colour to begin with and simply respray it every time it gets graffiti on it.

Colin Bignell

[fred]

In article , Andrew Gabriel writes

Funny, here they warn than graffiti cleanup can take up to ten days from report to action.

While I am totally uninterested, I wonder if there is an appropriate road closure notice in place to support the unlit publicity stunt.