This dude who lived in a house near some of Ipswich’s worst roads/roundabouts kept his pet pig in the house (a proper 4 legged one, not a police officer) or it would have got run over; there are about 3 dogs and a similar number of kids knocked down every week in those areas (families who live there now just keep their small creatures inside or ferry them about in cars, adding to the traffic problems).
about 15 years ago a lot of London cyclists would wear a yellow vest with “POLITE” on it and few drivers noticed the difference (or if they were talll enough probably thought they were NL cops on secondment to metpol; as their uniform says “POLITIE” 0n it; though they actually rarely wear hi vis.
If you want to see how effective they are in action look up the news videos of Koninginsdag 2009 where an angry lone wolf terrorist (a white Dutchman who was angry at the recession) drives his car full speed into the crowd of pedestrians (and tries but fails to take out a police cycle); they are first on scene and immediately go into formation to put up the cordon before soldiers; AIVD or any other service….
This part of England is close enough to NL and DK (both geographicaly and culturally) that a lot of ideas do cross the North Sea; then again when I lived in SE England (from 1992 until 2006) there was a entire week in July 2005 when because I was an Asian chap with two big panniers motorists would actually slow down and let me go first at the main city roundabouts (which never normally happened) as they were that scared I would spontaneously explode. It does say something about attitudes in the UK it takes something like that to happen before people will begrudgingly share the roads like everyone else does in Europe).
