Re:The mysterious disappearance of the longest shrubbery
by hobs on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:19AM
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If you brush everything and there's no footprints on the path you've guarded it well, if there are footprints on the path either you forgot to sweep or someone used it without your knowledge.
Re:The mysterious disappearance of the longest shrubbery
by reactspa on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:20AM
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How is it fair to hold a sweeper accountable for footsteps that occur after they're off duty?
Re:The mysterious disappearance of the longest shrubbery
by irrational on Saturday September 04, 2021 @03:26AM
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They don’t. They would be checked at the switching of the guard.
Nobody remembers it because it didn't exist. It may have been ordered by the British. And the contractors probably built a few "potemkin" sites to show to the British "inspectors". But the rest of it was probably fiction. Certain people needed to be paid off, and they wrote reports about how thick and impassable and gloriously thick the bush was... and the higher-ups who never visited the bush believed them).
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An aside, anyone know what this sentence means?
> This was to ensure that they would be accountable for any impressions of footsteps that were discovered after they went off duty