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Air display stunt teams sometimes do that bit where they make coloured trails in the sky whilst hurtling past one another at several hundred miles per hour. You stand and gawp, a mere spectator.
But this year when it snows you'll be able to lamely recreate your favourite trails in your local supermarket
car park.
Have pressurised canisters of food colouring* strapped to the underside of your car. The valves are opened by pulling on bits of string through the car window (or do it with electronics if you want to get all James Bond). The colouring gets sprayed onto the snow below - hey presto - snow trails.
Pointless and harmless, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination and the weather.
Remember to switch the canisters off before you drive home, or they'll know whodunnit.
(Alternately, intentionally do this on snowy public roads to create intertwined 'journey trails'.)
The Red Arrows
http://www.aviation...%20Red%20Arrows.htm
They get around a bit (as do other national display teams), but in case you didn't know... [boysparks, Dec 10 2006]
The Red Barrows
http://ccgi.seafront.org.uk/news/
(You'll need to scroll down a bit) - The Red Barrows are a wheelbarrow display team who perform at low-budget events throughout the UK. It's basically a team of men in red overalls wheeling red wheelbarrows around in death-defying close formation display. [hippo, Dec 10 2006]
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Wouldn't this possibly be considered property damage? |
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I dunno about property damage since roads are public, but certainly vandalism. |
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It's just dyeing the top layer of the snow; no damage (vandalism) at all. |
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Interesting. I worked for a renegade engineer named Red Barrows (nickname, for his hair color, the last name was Barrows) back in 1983. |
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The outfit made underwater electrical connectors. It's where I got my first interest in Quality Control, which led me to the madness I currently make my living at. |
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On alot of the rock cliffs around here people pour all sorts of colored water over the edge and onto the icecicles. At night it provides for a beautiful display of sparkleing colored ice. |
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This would be nice for emergencies, hand
held. Lost in the snowy woods? go to a
clearing and when you hear the
helicopters, mark a big x or a circle or
something. But then, I don't know
anything about snow. |
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What do you need to know about snow, except as regards its practical applications? |
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Could open up a new niche for ways of writing in the snow (men who've had a night on the beer and are walking home in the snow will know what I mean). A tractor would give you gimpy block capitals. A smart little sports bike copuild knock out slinky cursive script. Could be a winner. Write your own haiku. In the snow. From a bike. |
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