Well this has caused a bit of controversy down here.
The ANC aren’t happy, late on Friday, the party issued court papers seeking to interdict the gallery and City Press newspaper, which first published a picture of the painting. The matter will be heard at the High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday (tomorrow.)
CAUTION: The uncensored picture follows…… Read more…
It was JM’s post with his London bus picture (here)that got me thinking.
In these times of belt tightening, budget cutting and austerity I certainly wouldn’t be happy with what appears to be a very expensive advertising campaign informing locals of what they already know!
London bus
There is apparently also a ‘tube campaign’ and billboard ads… Read more…
I had been intrigued not so much by the London hostage taker or his reasons for his actions but by the response of the British police and their uniforms. (You can click the picture to get a larger view and read the collection of high tech gadgets that this officer is carrying.)
The article tells us -
“Thousands were evacuated, Tube stations were closed and streets locked down over a wide area of London’s West End.
Snipers, bomb disposal squads, nuclear biological and chemical warfare specialists and dozens of armed police were scrambled to the building on Tottenham Court Road, one of the city’s busiest shopping streets.”
I then had a closer look at our chaps (picture on next page) Read more…
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