Shed & Burried - Crow Scarer Test Run episode.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Just been watching Shed & Burried - the Crow Scarer episode - when they tested it  the field - it's had me literally laughing out loud. Had to rewind it again for another laugh. 

It was all the funnier for me as it reminded me of an incident when I was on an armed duty overnight as a member of the Royal Family was visiting Derbyshire . There were two of us in this remote rural loaction, one of us was in the house with one of us outside patroling the grounds rotating every hours to go inside for a warm.

It was at the height of IRA activity in the UK with two serious incident in Derby at the time - the murder of a recruitment Sergeant & the bombing at the Army Recruitment Office in  the Main Center in town. At about 5.00 am I was outside when I heard this shotgun blast whilst I was outside, I radioed my oppo inside so we investigated the area hoping it was just a Poacher when the Automatic Crow Scarer went off again. It's the only time I ever took my Smith & Weston out of its holster.

[taysidedragon]

They used those Automatic Bird Scarers on an airfield that I used to work at for a while.
There's a click just before the cartridge is fired and there's a loud bang. The birds get wise to this, so they're quite happy to sit on the box containing the Bird Scarer and jump off when they hear the click. Then they come back straight after the bang. 🤣

[K2-K6]

That was a good episode of S&B Ted, very funny.

Amusing story of nightwatch, bet you've seen quite a bit on the flipside of normal society behaviour in that job.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

You certainly are exposed to the extremes of human behaviour.
The only 'normal' folk you interact with tend to be victims. It's difficult not to become cynical especially as you often loose friends on civvy street so all your friends are in the job. I suspect this explains the less than healthy cultures that can develop if you are not strong enough to resist some of the extremes of peer pressure behaviour.
I recently took an interest in psychology mainly from looking at video clips of Jordan Peterson - his book The Twelve Rules of life is interesting. As a result of some of his lectures I went on to read the book Ordinary Men written by Christopher R Browning - chilling true account of human behaviour at the extremes of peer pressure.