The unenlightened have festooned dozens of union flags on dozens of lamposts along the main road outside the asylum hostel in town.
So I was wondering about nipping out and removing them...
- Will prusiks ( Klemheists whatever) stick on the slippery metal or will I end up an embarrassed mush stuck to the pavement?
- Will the unenlightened spot me and come and kick shit out of me?
- Will the police spit me and kick the shit out of me.
- Or arrest me for some random disorder offence?
Given enough wraps you should be able to do it I suspect. However, it might be a slow process both up and down. Why not just copy whatever method the Neanerthals who put the flags up?
Will the unenlightened spot me and come and kick shit out of me?
If the prussiks work you can stay up up there out odlf reach till they eff off
A pole loper/pruner might be quicker or certainly allow a quicker getaway. What are you cutting? Cable ties? String?Â
Why not just copy whatever method the Neanderthals who put the flags up?
A ladder that was too short for the job?
Get a gas burner on a long pole and set fire to the flags. Might be a bit OTT.
Practice on a less controversial lamp post
Get a gas burner on a long pole and set fire to the flags. Might be a bit OTT.
Although I don't recognise half the words in OP's post, I suspect walking along a flag-strewn street at night with a burning torch may have the opposite effect to what they're hoping for.
This article details how a group calling itself the Faversham Ninjas take down the flags.Â
They've even made a contraption to take some down... partially made from a bog seat. It's a good read actually, detailing black ops type diversion tactics so another team can target the flags in another part of the small town without being accosted. 👍😁
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/society/2025/11/the-last-flags-of-faversham
Get a gas burner on a long pole and set fire to the flags.
Flags are supposed to be flame retardant under EU regulations.
So, hey, if they do burn, a brexit benefit?
cut down the lampsosts?
Having read Adam Kay's 'This is going to hurt' I'd be more worried by the journey back down the lamppost. Enjoy:
Window cleaning pole with sharp knife attached to it. Blow torch to heat knife and simply melt cable ties.
Be interested to see toilet seat contraption mentioned above.
Foot strap or climbing harness would be my preference and yes was thinking much the same as the op, well done to the Faversham Ninjas 👍
There's a load around Gerrard's Cross, I'm hoping that post rememberance Sunday the council might take them down anyway.
Driving through stockport has never been particularly pleasant but there seems to be a flag on almost every lamp post now, it's horrible.
In hastings the shaggers took down the George cross and put up the Israeli flag.
Window cleaning pole with sharp knife attached to it. Blow torch to heat knife and simply melt cable ties.
Be interested to see toilet seat contraption mentioned above.
The article describes it. Its a lasso the pan seat holds the lasso open as you thread it over the flag. Then you just pull. Is how i imagine it
Toilet seat is an odd choice as its pretty heavy.
In Aberystwyth we used to shin up the lamposts and do pull ups on the horizontal bar. However Google earth tells me the lamposts have been replaced and that would now be much more difficult if not impossible. Sticky rubber helps.
Don't forget to collect the recovered flags and then sell them on ebay*. Then wait for them to go back up and repeat the process.
Infinite money glitch.
*Don't forget to mention in the ad that all your flags are sourced right here in the UK.