Learning from the street

After installation, the Umbrellas became the target of the 'night people' the verbally abusive drunks and the crack addicts with their vacant haunted eyes and pale complexions. One lot, unable to behave when drunk, becoming mindless wreckers, the others have a single minded attention for stealing for drug funding.

Like the worried normal people in Aberdeen warned; the Umbrellas became a target.

The WiFi aerials were stolen, these are commercial items and can only be trophys, of no re-sale value; but it stopped the service for a while.

The VDU screen units were systematically attacked with incredible force. We guessed that persons repeatedly ran at them and kicked them with all their weight in the hope of opening them, so they might steal the internal components. How this was not captured on the Police CCTV leads you to believe that the police don't want to confront these lunatics...

However the experience has made us even more aware than we thought we were, in deploying vandal hardened street equipment.

The result is an even more robust system. But the questions raised are a valuable insight into our societies reluctance to curb street drug and drink addiction and anti social behaviour.

Apparently these folk have human rights that override everyone elses!