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Title: Safety, or Advertising? Post by: patric on January 20, 2006, 11:02:52 pm It amazes me how "experts" claim you should be safe from the rash of armed robberies if you are in brightly-lit areas, and yet that's exactly where the vast majority of those armed robberies have been occuring at night.
(http:// http://www.kotv.com/pages/catimages/QT-Robbery-Admiral122005.jpg ) http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=95707 A number of big franchises nationwide (McDonalds, WalMart, Conoco-Phillips, Chevron, etc.) are undertaking what advertisers call "re-imaging" that involves enhancing their outdoor dazzle (increasing lighting to several times the nationally-recommended levels for their land use, effectively creating one huge lighted sign). Next time a gas station or fast food joint tells your neighborhood group that you should accept their 1,000-Watt Metal Halide glare-bombs as "improved security", please let the Board of Adjustment know that these people are full of creek water. Even the bad guys need light to find their victims. |