Orange high-vis = criminal ???

robvulpes · 2 Dec 2008

Alert to everyone who has to wear orange high-vis to go trackside. We are about to be mistaken for criminals serving community sentences!! See:-

http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/newsrelease011208a.htm

Why couldn't they go for another colour - pink would be embarrassing enough!

Rob

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EM2 · 2 Dec 2008

First Capital Connect and National Express East Anglia wear pink...
I have blue.

Coxster · 2 Dec 2008

TheSlash is basically a criminal anyway, so it won't affect him too much when he's "fixing" the tracks.

TheSlash · 2 Dec 2008

Coxster said:
TheSlash is basically a criminal anyway, so it won't affect him too much when he's "fixing" the tracks.

Yep. It's all true.

P156KWJ · 2 Dec 2008

Staff at St Pancras international wear turquoise hi-viz, looks revolting. The people from Clegg construction (shame it's not clag

) wear multi coloured ones!

37412 · 2 Dec 2008

Look on the brightside maybe it will stop people turning up to pres lines in Hi-Vi's or wearing them when photting in the middle of fields despite the fact they have nothing to do with the railway but think it makes them look important!

P156KWJ · 2 Dec 2008

and stop spotters turning up at Finsbury Park and Water Orton wearing them :lol:

EM2 · 2 Dec 2008

Sulzer25 said:
Staff at St Pancras international wear turquoise hi-viz, looks revolting.

OI! It's not turquoise, it's pale blue, if you please!

P156KWJ · 2 Dec 2008

pale sky blue with a slight hint of teal?

EE Type 3 · 2 Dec 2008

37412 said:
Look on the brightside maybe it will stop people turning up to pres lines in Hi-Vi's or wearing them when photting in the middle of fields despite the fact they have nothing to do with the railway but think it makes them look important!

Oh. My. God.

You will not believe how annoying that is. People who wear hi-vis everywhere, on the station, lineside, on road bridges, it gets on my tree. And it's even worse when they get in your shot. :roll:

EM2 · 2 Dec 2008

Sulzer25 said:
pale sky blue with a slight hint of teal?

Actually a lot of customers like them. They say it doesn't make us look like security guards.

Coxster · 2 Dec 2008

EE Type 3 said:
it's even worse when they get in your shot

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37412 · 2 Dec 2008

EE Type 3 said:
People who wear hi-vis everywhere.....it gets on my tree.

I once saw some pillock wearing a hi-vi while in a tree at the MRC photting, while he probably thought it made him look important it made everyone on the train chuckle!

EE Type 3 · 2 Dec 2008

Coxster said:
and/or avatar

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37412 said:
I once saw some pillock wearing a hi-vi while in a tree at the MRC photting, while he probably thought it made him look important it made everyone on the train chuckle!

Quality quoting there :lol:

At the SVR Steam Gala, there was a gallery on the Bewdly side of Foley Park tunnel, all right side of the fence, all in hi-vis, in the baking hot sun!

hock::roll:

Tom B · 2 Dec 2008

Personally, I think the impact of hi-vis clothing has been lessened by the number of people who wear it - OK, sensible to have a driver on the track wearing a hi-vi, or a builder, or a cyclist - but you often see (say) builders nowhere near a building site, in hi-vis, or a bus driver wearing one whilst in the cab... if over-used, people begin to see them as "something that is just... there" and not notice them.

TheSlash · 2 Dec 2008

I'm actually in agreement with Tom

hock:
My gripe with HV clothing is people who think it acts as a forcefield, ie "If i wear lots of orange, the train will steer round me"
Also as Tom says, too many people wear it for no good reason. When you do your driving test, the examiner sits in the passenger seat wearing an HV :roll:
Another one is drivers of road rail machines. They seem to wear HV in the cab, despite not setting foot on the ballast

Mojo · 3 Dec 2008

When they were still building the shopping centre in Bristol, I once went into McDonalds for breakfast and everyone was looking at me. I later realised that I was the only customer in there not wearing a yellow hi-vis :lol:

ungreat · 3 Dec 2008

EM2 said:
First Capital Connect wear pink...
.

Since when? Apart from the ghastly shirts/pink doors/neck things etc

FCC Hi Viz vest are orange,like ALL staff's HV clothing who go trackside

EM2 · 3 Dec 2008

ungreat said:
FCC Hi Viz vest are orange,like ALL staff's HV clothing who go trackside

I was referring to station staff.

mrcheek · 3 Dec 2008

what gets me are those people who wear hi-vis clothing while walking down the street, even though in their entire lives they never have any use for it!

P156KWJ · 3 Dec 2008

what gets me is people who wear it for jobs like dustcart driving

hock: at a real real push you could say the actual binmen have to so that it's not just some randomer stealing your recycling for some reason, but then again, HV is available everywhere :roll:

rmt · 3 Dec 2008

Mojo said:
When they were still building the shopping centre in Bristol, I once went into McDonalds for breakfast and everyone was looking at me. I later realised that I was the only customer in there not wearing a yellow hi-vis

I did that the morning of the Alloa Alloer tour. There was more yellow in there than an explosion at a custard factory.

devon_metro · 3 Dec 2008

Sulzer25 said:
what gets me is people who wear it for jobs like dustcart driving hock: at a real real push you could say the actual binmen have to so that it's not just some randomer stealing your recycling for some reason, but then again, HV is available everywhere :roll:

You'll probably find that they have to wear a Yellow high viz by law due to them working on the roads

mbonwick · 3 Dec 2008

mrcheek said:
what gets me are those people who wear hi-vis clothing while walking down the street, even though in their entire lives they never have any use for it!

You could argue that my parents do that when they see me down to the bus stop in the morning. However, given that it's 0715 in the morning, it does help the bus driver see us & stop

me123 · 3 Dec 2008

Sadly, this is a true advert :lol:

It's like something out of "The Apprentice".

EM2 · 3 Dec 2008

me123 said:
Sadly, this is a true advert

It's like something out of "The Apprentice".

Er, why do they all get out of the car, if Dad's just changing a wheel?
BTW, in France, all drivers must carry a hi-viz in the car by law.

me123 · 3 Dec 2008

That's what I found really odd. Unless I could smell petrol or had reason to believe that the car could explode, I would not leave the car until help arrived. And even then, I wouldn't be in a rush to uplift my hi-vis.

P156KWJ · 3 Dec 2008

Liam said:
You'll probably find that they have to wear a Yellow high viz by law due to them working on the roads

But if drivers don't need them, why do binmen? :? How would a piece of clothing prevent a reasonable enough number to prove that they do make a difference? just wondering, not getting at you Liam!

I think we should watch this to know how to make ourselves safe

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=d4n-amRJeyw

BJMorley · 3 Dec 2008

I wear it on the Indigo to Long Eaton, I've got to say I get the wrong bus to stop!!! :lol:

90019 · 3 Dec 2008

EM2 said:
Er, why do they all get out of the car, if Dad's just changing a wheel?

It's because of the danger of being on the hard shoulder. If you stay in the car and someone crashes into it at 70MPH, it's not going to be a pretty sight. Hence why the advice is to get everyone out and onto the embankment, away from the car if you have to stop there

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