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Booby-trapped Trans tape on Edinburgh lampposts injures council worker during removal

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MorningsideMaze · 21/08/2026 20:34

For a couple of years a TRA has been placing pink/blue/white tape on lampposts in Morningside in Edinburgh. Also stickers and other graffiti.
It seems theTRA has got fed up of the council removing their pink/blue/white tape from the lampposts and decided to booby trap them. They have put some substance on the tape, presumably to deter their removal. However, this has led to the hospitalisation a council worker who was removing the tape (and a major response from the emergency services sealing off a major road).
They then appeared a few hours later and put more tape (and substance) on!
This had half of Edinburgh gridlocked last night
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/cleansing-workers-taken-to-hospital-after-removing-sticker-from-morningside-lamppost-8935523

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ProfessoressaSazzasez · 24/08/2026 21:29

Down in Essex on a trip & there were streets with all union flags, and streets with all St George flags.

My first thought was when are these streets going to fight each other?

I don’t like the idea of England becoming like Belfast, frankly.

OneJustPinkAnt · 25/08/2026 08:32

I see the shout has gone out to the derailers.

To get back on topic has the culprit been named officially?

ArabellaScott · 25/08/2026 08:45

Dooferer · 24/08/2026 21:21

I’d assumed that’s cause the far right knobbers were too short! But seriously, piss off with your flags. Do they harm or help with community cohesion? Harm, so off they should fuck.

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I would happily ban all fucking flags that had a political meaning.

The only ones I like are the ones they use to dress the ships, where they are all shrunk tiny and look pretty.

BezMark · 25/08/2026 09:24

I was no far from there on streetview just last week, searching for the location of a nice photo I saw on FB with a distinctive red sandstone tenement.

I just took a quick look around and the streetview footage is from September 2022 and the tape is quite obvious on four and maybe a fifth post (Maxwell St looking towards Morningside Road). In other nearby footage from October 25 I don't see the tape. So the streetview footage is in line with reports from PP that this has been going on for years on and off.

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MorningsideMaze · 25/08/2026 10:08

I don’t think the suspect has been named officially. I am surprised by the lack of media interest. Anyone know any Journalists they can get interested in poking around?

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Lalgarh · 25/08/2026 13:18

Nick Wallis I think?

Daniel de Simone at the BBC does extremist action but mainly lts far right and also he's BBC so ..

JakeyRolling · Yesterday 00:42

MorningsideMaze · 25/08/2026 10:08

I don’t think the suspect has been named officially. I am surprised by the lack of media interest. Anyone know any Journalists they can get interested in poking around?

Possibly released on an undertaking to appear (aka police bail). He’ll be named when he appears.

selffellatingouroborosofhate · Yesterday 01:00

ScottishTERF · 22/08/2026 19:33

OMG. I have just read speculation as to what the 'substance' was. Something only men can produce! And we are supposed to believe it is not a sexual fetish.

That would explain why the cleaning workers started feeling ill, from disgust rather than poisoning, and they'd be taken to hospital for checks after contact with bodily fluids.

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