The Mysterious Case of the Waterloo Cone

Very slowly people travelling down Waterloo Rd are starting to notice something a tad... out of place. On the top of a very tall Norfolk Pine out the front of St Bernards School on Waterloo Rd is a bright orange traffic cone.

We've been tracking it's progress. It first appeared a few months ago, but was sitting about 8 branches down from the very peak, nestled against the tree's trunk, and that's where it just hung out. A few weeks ago, during the July school holidays, it jumped to the very peak, where it proudly sits now. If you look very closely you can see a rope hanging down from it which wasn't there the first time, so someone obviously put a bit of thought and strategy into getting it there. It was one of those valiant and/or stupid acts, those branches up the top are scarily thin, and probably rather brittle too.

Whoever put it there is likely to be a legend amongst their mates. They'll be able to admire their work for a long while - no one's offering to be the one to take it down. Until then, there it sits, in a very slow battle of Wellington Wind vs precarious Traffic Cone. Keep an eye out for it.. just make sure that when you do, you don't stand down wind.