Heritage Street Light Lanterns Stolen

[Slyspark]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvj72p4eg2o

Ok, own up, who nicked these then?

[AngryHorse]

How on earth do somebody ‘steal’ one of these??
The sheer weight of one for a start would be difficult to remove without a cherry picker!, this and the 60 years of rusty grub screws suggests this is somebody that knows what they were doing?

[Slyspark]

I'd guess either an insode job from someone on the streetlighting team, or someone has hired a cherry picker, donned a high-viz and looked official enough that no-one noticed

[Beta 5]

I wonder what these run now, certainly not their original 5ft 80W BC tubes. They look a bit odd with just the light from the top of the tube.

[Slyspark]

Some awful LED bodge from the looks of the pictures. They could at least have fitted them with 5' LED tubes. Wouldn't look so ridiculous then

[FrontSideBus]

With the amount of CCTV about these days I highly doubt that these have just gone missing without a trace...

[Slyspark]

Certainly seems odd. I mean, looking at the sheer size of these, it's not like someone just popped a ladder up against it and lifted it off is it. I'm gonna guess these probably weigh a lot. Has to have been done with a cherry picker and probably a couple of strong guys.

Maybe the council removed them for restoration then lost / broke them and this seemed a good way to pass the blame?

[FrontSideBus]

Wouldn't put it past the council... they want rid of them so they can fit trendy new LED fittings but can't without facing backlash so they have "gone missing"

[Slyspark]

I guess that's also possible...