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undergroundpanther

(11,925 posts) Wed May 29, 2013, 03:34 AM May 2013

BERLIN — Germans have no trouble agreeing that the graffiti covering many of the nation’s commuter trains in a most un-Germanic scrawl is intolerable. But what they cannot agree on is the main railway operator’s proposed cure: small drones to patrol the rail yards by night.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/world/europe/in-germany-unease-at-plan-to-use-drones-to-fight-graffiti.html?_r=0

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Some Germans Balk at Plan to Use Drones to Fight Graffiti (Original Post) undergroundpanther May 2013 OP

They may have the sense to recognise dipsydoodle May 2013 #1

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1. They may have the sense to recognise

Wed May 29, 2013, 04:25 AM

May 2013

that such use might be what is colloquially known as the thin end of the wedge.