I learnt to read on the Amir Chitra Katha comics! They were so cool, and you could pretend they were educational too! Man there was some whacked out mythology there.

Any fans of the above series will want to keep their eyes out for a big-budget comic-styled treatment of the Ramayana that's in production in the Bollywood animation studios at the moment. :-B
I don't know much about it myself, but what I did hear sounded very juicy for a fan of these books.

I can't find any good gossip links yet, but keep an eye out for Keywords: Ramayan, Indian Superheroes, Virgin Comics, Suresh Seetharaman

> Probably got crappy reception anyway...

Either way, the phone is definitely buggered now!

Anyone look at the timestamps?

video 0.52 == 2:11.00 visible on screen
glitch starts at -
video 1.20 == 2:11.28 (calculated)
glitch recovers at -
video 1.21 == ? (at least 2:12)
clock ticks over again at -
video 2.21 == 2:13.00

Doing the maths, that means the restart is precisely 2:12.00, and that we've got 32 seconds of downtime.
Plenty of time for folk to change position a lot, or a few anomalies to appear to appear.

So I say there wasn't a directorial restart, it's maybe to short for a change to be made, and to long for them to not have reset/refaked the clock.

Of course, maybe that's just what they want us to think ;-)

No. People ARE that mad sometimes, I remember watching a stand-up pot-plant war between two waiters heaving planters at each other in dispute over a bit of outside dining pavement. Terracotta shards and dirt was going everywhere, and a few tables were *crushed*.

And yes, witnesses ARE that sheep-like. Diners were sitting there pulling their bags under their chairs, but nobody would tackle the crazy person. Why the hell should they? Still, they didn't move more than a step away either.

This physical outlet is somehow more astonishing than a genuine fist-fight.
Would there be so much speculation if he was actually attacking a person (and causing the same destruction in the meantime)? No, everyone would shrug and say shit happens. That's what we *expect* to see on securicams. The fact that he didn't go directly for people (apart from the first crack) is the only notable thing about this vid at all!

Why would they want to break the system by prohibiting the kids like this?

When I first saw the locks, I thought they were bloody stupid, yeah. But then I realized what was happening, and think it's an admirable, elegant, economic idea!

Look at the scenarios:
You put in a deposit, annoying, yes.

You shop and take the trolley back to your car.
You now have a choice of returning the trolley like a good citizen and getting rewarded for doing so or deciding not to bother, and just leave the trolley there. Is the walk across the parking lot worth 1 pounds worth of your time?

Now - a kid looking for pocket money can run over and fetch your abandoned trolley.
They can either take it back to the rack, and get paid for doing that useful job! Or they can 'sell' the trolley to another customer for the same price. Customer gets a trolley which is worth a pound to them on redemption, kid gets a pound to spend on drugs.

Surely this is win-win!

But it gets better!
How about those folk that take a trolley out of the premises and push it back to their housing estate? You now have an expensive trolley a mile away from home, and management don't have much chance of getting it back.
But A bored kid knows that if they take the trolley back, he'll get paid for doing so!
Trolleys will not get pushed into rivers or set on fire anywhere near as much if there is a clear cash value in looking after them.

The system embiggens itself!

Soo....
Why would the shop itself post a sign that tries to break that chain?

It can only be because they have an attitude against kids loitering, instead of treating them as free, helpful, labour!

... there may be a flaw in this system that I haven't seen, but that the way it looked to work when I saw it.