Cone Head

There is a long standing (and fun in my opinion) tradition in Glasgow,Scotland of placing a traffic cone on the head of the statue of the Duke of Wellington. Around a year ago city council decided they would raise the plinth 34 inches to deter the practice at the cost of about $101,852,their reasoning being that it was costing about $15,670 a year to remove the cone crowns. The council was forced to abandon the plan after a massive social media campaign called "Save Wellington's Cone". A couple of things occur to me...why bother to remove the cones (they are a tourist attraction) and if they were going to go to the trouble and expense of raising the statue would 34 inches be a deterrent or a hazard? The moral of the story...sometimes you can fight city hall and win!