Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
- Posts: 285
#1
Around the three cash machines outside the HSBC.
Were they put there by the council or the bank?
As if the rough cement,with lines scraped out to look like paving slabs,outside Boots doesn't look bad enough.
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
- Posts: 1,116
#2
Perhaps to enforce new banking charges of some kind?
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,037
#3
I don't know but I am guessing they were put there by the bank. A lot of them use then to stop people standing directly behind a person using the cash machine ie you stand behind the white square.
#4
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#5
I would guess that most people stand that far away anyway, they certainly make the walkway outside Morrisons and Asda unuseable for the rest of us.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
#6
The white square is to make you feel out home while emptying the bank machine in preparation of the weekly shop.
The downturn is coming out of the shop with four heavy bags and an empty wallet.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
#7
The real issue is, who painted them? They were all done at the same time irrespective of who owns the machines. I can't believe that the banks co-operated.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 720- Registered: 20 Jul 2011
- Posts: 114
#8
Yes, I think these are fairly common in towns and cities. In fact I have seen much bigger ones, and in brighter colours with cross-hatching, in some places. Much more intrusive in the street scene. They just encourage people to stand a reasonable distance away from anyone who is withdrawing cash from the machines. I've certainly had occasions when I have not felt comfortable because someone is standing quite close, and you're never sure whether they are trying to see your PIN, or whether they are preparing to snatch your cash when it comes out of the machine.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
- Posts: 1,610
#9
Apparently, and I do not have confirmation, they were ordered by DDC and cost them £150 each. I would have done it for £100 and thrown in the paint.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,673
#10
They are also outside the Abbey
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