• VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      15 hours ago

      bollards in the UK are literally just cannons filled with concrete and capped with a cannonball so i don’t see why you couldn’t do the same with a rocket launcher

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        14 hours ago

        Some old bollards and mooring posts, mostly in London, are old cannons, just to be pedantic! You can find them if you know what to look for, but London alone has 60,000+ streets and it’s not like no new bollards have been installed since the Napoleonic wars.

        Here’s an image from Living London History’s Facebook page for the curious: