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paulzolo
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TheFrenchun
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someone else offered to pay for the lights to be on all night and county council refused?
I'm guessing noone in Essex is a shift worker then :S
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big_D
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Some residential areas over here are turning the lights off after 10 in the evening. If you need light, you send an SMS to a number on the lamppost and they turn back on for 5 minutes.
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cloaked_wolf
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Seems a bit pointless Dave? I'd want the route to be relatively lit on my way home as I walked.
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paulzolo
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Nah. If you’re out and about that late at night, the police helicopter will pick you up and light your way home. 
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pcernie
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big_D
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It is cheaper / saves more energy than putting electronic sensors on each lamppost and having them turn on individually for a minute or so. The whole street lights up, AFAIK. The trial is somewhere down south, so I've only seen it in a TV report.
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TheFrenchun
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but doesn't that create even more of a risk? it's like sending a beacon to assaulters " look, there's someone here!"
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big_D
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Rural village with no assault crime...
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davrosG5
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I'd say you could view that either way - yes there's someone there... in a now well lit area. Plus it doesn't just send a beacon to criminals, it sends it to everyone on the street (depending on how thick their blinds/curtains are).
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