Culture Shock

(forgot to put this one in this morning)

There must be a major crisis in England with people climbing onto things. I have never seen so much barbed wire, solid spikes, razor wire, and rotating spikes in my life. My best guess is that at night, hordes of ninjas swoop down into the streets and begin climbing over walls and onto roofs in order to carry out their evil schemes, and This Must Be Stopped. It's the only explanation for why every possible wall, railing, and unused set of steps are built up defensively enough to put WWI trenches to shame. It's not just Victorian-style iron fences, either; I've seen rows of revolving black iron spikes on top of an otherwise innocuous stone wall, and a set of unused garden steps wreathed in coils of razor wire. Chain link fences are routinely topped with four or five strands of barbed wire, and most cement railings have at least one row of iron spear heads along them. It's like they're still expecting the Vikings to invade or something.