'Village of the Dammed' safety bollards.

[Cycleops]

The council in Iver have decided to put some rather strange child shaped bollards outside a school to try to slow motorists down.
Do you think this will be effective or is it a creep too far?

https://metro.co.uk/2017/09/04/cree...-of-children-are-freaking-people-out-6901970/

Anyone remember the book or film?

 

[All uphill]

I like it!

They could also put up some models of police officers.

 

[classic33]

The council in Iver have decided to put some rather strange child shaped bollards outside a school to try to slow motorists down.
Do you think this will be effective or is it a creep too far?

https://metro.co.uk/2017/09/04/cree...-of-children-are-freaking-people-out-6901970/

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Anyone remember the book or film?

Needs reflective eyes, for nighttime use.

Seen the film, never read the book.

 

[PeteXXX]

I was hoping that it was going to be bollards that rise out of the road....

 

[classic33]

I was hoping that it was going to be bollards that rise out of the road....

Tied into a speed camera?

 

[Cycleops]

The book was The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, who also wrote Day of The Triffids.

 

[MontyVeda]

...
Anyone remember the book or film?

That reminds me... isn't there a Netflix Sky Max remake of The Midwich Cuckoos?

The UK film is fabulous. The US remake is terrible. Hopefully Netflix Sky Max did a decent job, but it doesn't matter if they didn't. The UK film is still fabulous.

 

[MontyVeda]

The book was The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, who also wrote Day of The Triffids.

that's another one! The movie versions are feckin dreadful and only the early 80s BBC version is any good, in fact, it's also fabulous!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

We've had these in Leicester for a few years now. I think they are effective.

 

[MontyVeda]

We had cardboard police cars in the northwest about 20 years ago.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

The council in Iver have decided to put some rather strange child shaped bollards outside a school to try to slow motorists down.
Do you think this will be effective or is it a creep too far?

https://metro.co.uk/2017/09/04/cree...-of-children-are-freaking-people-out-6901970/

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Anyone remember the book or film?

The article's from a few years ago, so they'll have lost their impact now the kids have grown up, and no doubt have a tin of special brew in hand.

 

[wiggydiggy]

that's another one! The movie versions are feckin dreadful and only the early 80s BBC version is any good, in fact, it's also fabulous!

Ah no way! The most recent 2009 BBC wasn't the best but it was ok. The 1960s film though I really like and think it has a certain charm.

 

[MontyVeda]

seems the 2009 version has passed me by... the 60s film has cheese, not charm, and is nothing in comparison to the 80s miniseries.
I'll check out the 2009 version though

 

[Willd]

We've had these in Leicester for a few years now. I think they are effective.

Stoney Stanton, time to start worrying when they move

 

[Once a Wheeler]

The book was The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, who also wrote Day of The Triffids.

A great author, in many ways underappreciated. My favourite is The Chrysalids which, without ever mentioning nuclear war, depicts a remnant society surviving in its aftermath. It is, perhaps unwittingly, prescient in its major theme of genetic modification and the visceral antipathy which it provokes. Its insight into telepathy is a theme whose day may well yet come.