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Instead, high-vis has become our modern cloak of invisibility.
Britain isn't called great for nothing | Bella Bathurst 2011
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Reflective strips are useful in the city and lights after dark are essential, but high-vis is just a uniform and the point of uniforms is to make people more anonymous.
Britain isn't called great for nothing | Bella Bathurst 2011
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By the time a nearby pair of Bobbies have heard the radio shout and sprinted down the street in their big hats, high-vis coats, boots and body armour, they are too late.
If You Fail, We All Fail. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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It's bad enough nobody sells a high-vis helmet, but NYC orders a custom-designed thing just for riding in traffic and they make it lo-vis.
Slow and Steady: The Tortoise and the Helmet Hair BikeSnobNYC 2009
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There was high-vis everywhere but the police just blended in with the railway staff, car pak attendants etc. with the exception of what I saw at Newport, South Wales.
The Plastic Fantastic « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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You have to have to be able to recreate remotely the kind of situation awareness a human would get from a high-vis cockpit.
Air forces' futures 2008
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Just utterly fearless, full of confidence, zooming up Kingsland Road in my geeky high-vis jacket with the evening breeze ruffling my hair zooming might be exaggerating a little...
Archive 2008-08-01 The List Writer 2008
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Just utterly fearless, full of confidence, zooming up Kingsland Road in my geeky high-vis jacket with the evening breeze ruffling my hair zooming might be exaggerating a little...
Confidence The List Writer 2008
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If someone had the audacity to come up to me and tell me to get down the gym, particularly if they were wearing polyester and a 'high-vis' vest, I would feel it my duty as someone who enjoys chocolate cake and having a decent pair of breasts, to tell them to get stuffed.
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If someone had the audacity to come up to me and tell me to get down the gym, particularly if they were wearing polyester and a 'high-vis' vest, I would feel it my duty as someone who enjoys chocolate cake and having a decent pair of breasts, to tell them to get stuffed.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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