DesertFox
01-13-2007, 12:39 PM
The respectable looking lady at the tea shop in the Sussex market town of Lewes was an unlikely advocate of urban terrorism. "Everyone I know is secretly pleased about the attacks. No one would mind if every last one was blown to pieces," she confided in a hushed tone.
"If I knew who was carrying out the explosions I wouldn't tell the police. Good luck to them, I say," she added.
So what is the object of such passion and hatred in a town usually associated with literature, music, antiques, and good taste? It is the parking meter.
Since new parking restrictions were introduced - some say imposed - in Lewes in September 2004, there has been a remarkable backlash in which a group of vigilantes and vandals have been blowing up the newly installed meters.
More (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2149724.ece)
"If I knew who was carrying out the explosions I wouldn't tell the police. Good luck to them, I say," she added.
So what is the object of such passion and hatred in a town usually associated with literature, music, antiques, and good taste? It is the parking meter.
Since new parking restrictions were introduced - some say imposed - in Lewes in September 2004, there has been a remarkable backlash in which a group of vigilantes and vandals have been blowing up the newly installed meters.
More (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2149724.ece)