Louisville diamonds has a certain ring to it. We have plenty of debris in our roads. Then there are the people who set tyres alight in the road, sometimes in celebration (New Year's mess), sometimes in anger: when there's no electricity and/or water for days or weeks
We should probably start putting them on rings :D Ah, the DIY roadblock of choice. It's something of a thing here in Kentucky to burn couches in celebration but that's more a sportsball tradition, hate to think what'd catch fire here if electricity and water were off for weeks. Do the burning tyres get anything other than a police response?
On an unrelated note, I've seen a few stories recently about shootings at shabeens(?) in your neck of the woods, but it was the BBC and didn't really say much other than the barest of details, was wondering what's the context/rest of the story?
Not exactly my neck of the woods, I'm in Johannesburg and that shooting is happening in Cape Town. It seems to be related to feuding gangs.
Sadly, nobody does anything much until people start burning shit, it's a tradition referred to as "the smoke that calls" because then local politicians start showing up to reassure communities that something is actually being done, problem being that there are no quick fixes because the infrastructure was allowed to decay to that level...
Ah, gotcha, kinda opposite ends of the country looks like. Wasn't really sure where you were or where it happened.
The smoke that calls, going to have to remember that. Doesn't sound too different from how things go with racism and policing here.