The yellow and blue chequered thing.

Seen it while waiting a traffic que by a deep excavation.

Atom bomb, ufo that has landed ?

Curious.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/yfkajN]What is It ?[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

A Dalek in a golf sweater?

A modern day

lol

Bit more info, there are two of them at each end of the hole.

Perhaps some sort of security device PIR type thing.

Mayby a new Google Hole Digger ?

A modern day

First thing I thought was “a hi-vis TARDIS” (-:

How big are they? It’s difficult to judge scale in the photo. Couple of feet high?

A rolled up police car ?

They seem to be sitting on tripod of some kind.

Say 600mm high, 400mm diameter.

The excavation may have high voltage cables exposed. I’m erring towards an alarm of some kind.

Monitored, wireless, and motion sensitive security camera
We are using them on a lot of our sites now to secure plant and equipment without having the need for men sitting in cabins 24-7, they seem to work quite well
We used to use the JCB Camwatch system but these are more compact and battery powered not generator

It’s a yellow and blue chequered thing 😀

@redthunder, I know where that is! I thought the same earlier.

Monitored, wireless, and motion sensitive security camera
We are using them on a lot of our sites now to secure plant and equipment without having the need for men sitting in cabins 24-7, they seem to work quite well
We used to use the JCB Camwatch system but these are more compact and battery powered not generator

and just throw a blanket over it and its nice and warm and blind

and just throw a blanket over it and its nice and warm and blind

That’s probably why it’s

Monitored

wait, wait, i know, it’s youtube sensation Ronnie F Pickering in disguise

^^ beat me to it! 🙂

Monitored

but by the time someone has responded stuff will have gone be damaged or the minion will be gone

Legend
That’s why, as the OP said in the 4th post, they are used in (at least) pairs
Also approach it and it makes a rather unpleasant noise that would alert anyone in the area that something was going off

A Dalek in a golf sweater?

😆

Armadillo

http://pid-systems.co.uk/

Still prefer the rolled up police car suggestion 😉

and the excavation.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/zgTYxP]Armadillo Sub Station Security Alarm[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/yk1W94]Armadillo Sub Station Security Alarm[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

They could have made it a bit sleeker…

Needs more weaponry.

It’s needs photoshoping 🙂

[url=https://flic.kr/p/yZjVxq]Untitled-1[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

Tripods!

approach it and it makes a rather unpleasant noise that would alert anyone in the area that something was going off

Please let it be this sound:
[video]http://youtu.be/0LwHoFyBLKs[/video]