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@Tinkerisk That’s not a red flag - it’s grey - so that kid’s clearly breaking the law.
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@Tinkerisk That’s not a red flag - it’s grey - so that kid’s clearly breaking the law.
“Ten years after the abolition of the “Red Flag Act”, The Illustrated London News published a humorous drawing celebrating the famous action of a Mr Harry Heweston. The “Red Flag Act”, as the Locomotive Act of 1865 was known, set speed limits of 4 mph (6 km/h) in the country and 2 mph (3 km/h) in towns. It also stipulated a man with a red flag should walk 60 yards (55 meters) ahead of each vehicle to warn horse riders and horse drawn traffic of the approach of a self-propelled machine.
After buying a 3 hp Benz in Germany, Heweston went out in the motor car in his home town of Catford with a small boy and upon receiving a report of a policeman ahead, set the boy out of the car to carry out the letter of the law. Ironically the flag was a tiny scrap of red ribbon on a lead pencil!“
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If you're aiming for malicious compliance today you'd really want to use this sort of red flag:
It specifically says "a man with a red flag", doesn't say it can't have a hammer and sickle on it.
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