Out in force this morning saw one at the Folkestone Road roundabout another near the Town Hall and a third outside the Eagle - the latter waving cheerfully at all cars and buses.
I telephoned the Dover Job Centre this morning and was told that they had no one from their many unemployed claimants who had the necessary 'skill set' to fill the positions.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
more today, perhaps the cooler weather, has bought them out, hope it wasn't them distracting the driver who badly crashed their car along Barton Road, this morning! Badly smashed, hope no-one was killed.