Guinness
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posted on 4/4/08 at 10:35 PM |
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Is it still April Fools Day?
"Special bridges to help bats with their flight path have been built as part of a £42m road scheme in Cornwall."
£250,000 for a Bat Bridge? FFS!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7330846.stm
Your's in stunned disbelief.
Mike
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NS Dev
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posted on 4/4/08 at 10:38 PM |
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I bet you're not as amazed as the " designer" and manufacturer of the bridges........................
bet they can't believe they got away with it!!!
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jlparsons
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posted on 4/4/08 at 10:48 PM |
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"The removal of any features which the signals bounce off along routes they frequently use can cause bats to become confused."
Didn't we used to call this "natural selection"?
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Mr Whippy
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posted on 4/4/08 at 11:03 PM |
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bats can see just fine
quote: Although they can't see color, bats can see better than we do at night. And, many bats can also "see" in the dark by using
echolocation. quote:
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/kidsbats.html
[Edited on 4/4/08 by Mr Whippy]
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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Triton
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posted on 4/4/08 at 11:24 PM |
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My Daughter has taken over production of the damn fine Triton race seats and her contact email is emmatrs@live.co.uk.
www.tritonraceseats.com
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Triton
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posted on 4/4/08 at 11:25 PM |
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See, move a hedge and sat nav goes to pot....
My Daughter has taken over production of the damn fine Triton race seats and her contact email is emmatrs@live.co.uk.
www.tritonraceseats.com
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RK
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posted on 5/4/08 at 12:33 AM |
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how much to put some more hedges in instead? I'm sure the building contractor can still milk the public purse on that...
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Richard Quinn
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posted on 5/4/08 at 09:00 AM |
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quote: Originally posted by RK
how much to put some more hedges in instead? I'm sure the building contractor can still milk the public purse on that...
Whoah! It's generally not the contractor that makes the money on this! It's the designers now bowing to a perceived public pressure. One
particular road scheme I was involved with was going just fine until one "concerned individual" indicated that we may be going to affect a
potential bat roost (despite all previous surveys indicating that this was not the case!). This brought the whole project to a standstill while the
scheme was redesigned to include some further mitigation including the "bat bridges" as in the story in the link.
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robinbastd
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posted on 5/4/08 at 09:38 PM |
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First they help the bats, and then they help the batty:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7332363.stm
Only a dead fish swims with the tide.
http://smuttygifts.com/
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