[Rebelbase]

This would have been posted in chat except for this one quote from the article:

“Harca employs anti-social behaviour officers and if chucking a piano off the Balfron Tower isn’t anti-social behaviour, I don’t know what is.”

I know it's in Britain, but I'm shocked at how the general populace is enforcing "acceptable behavior".

Those who say Britain is dead are closer to the truth than not.

[C210N]

Well, Britain is currently chucking their culture off a 26-storey/story building... at least figuratively. And unlike this piano, there does not seem like enough opposition to stop it.

[nothingnew]

Hahahaha!....I'm for it, as long as Sir Elton John is attached.

FMCDH(BITS)

[oh8eleven]

... thwarted by residents, who were concerned over the “danger and utter stupidity” of the stunt.
Well, I suppose we should be grateful that a smattering of common sense still survives.

[a fool in paradise]

How much would it cost to repair the sidewalk?

[Yossarian]

"And besides", said one Wiley E. Coyote, concerned citizen, "these types of things always backfire in the most unexpected ways!"

[a fool in paradise]

The gravity of this situation sank in.

[Our man in washington]

And if the British military is parading underneath, you could have A Flat Major.

[Boogieman]

I know it’s in Britain, but I’m shocked at how the general populace is enforcing “acceptable behavior”.

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Nobody likes to be told what to do, but plenty of people will love to take advantage and tell others what they need to do. It’s a busybody’s dream to live in a nanny state, they all become little informers for Big Mother.

[plain talk]

Actually sounds kind of cool to me. If they do it I hope they get some good video of it crashing.

[uglybiker]

The plan was to drop the piano “as part of a community workshop looking at how sound travels”.

Well, there's where you went wrong!

You should have said it was part of a community workshop looking at how sound travel has changed due to global warming!

Not only would it be approved (regardless of what the locals might want), but would most likely be paid for with gov't funds.

[DoodleDawg]

The plan was to drop the piano “as part of a community workshop looking at how sound travels”.

Ms. Brown was correct. The idea is utterly stupid.

[tellw]

I remember when Letterman used to drop stuff off a five story tower for kicks.

[Dr. Sivana]

Gee, back when David Letterman was funny, he used to do this sort of thing.

[UCANSEE2]

I’d be for it if Ms Y’ass would offer to stand below and catch the piano.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

http://youtu.be/F92FQdnLlSc

[RansomOttawa]

Plans by a Turner Prize-nominated artist to drop a piano off an iconic east London tower block have been thwarted by residents, who were concerned over the “danger and utter stupidity” of the stunt.

Why is anyone surprised? The Turner Prize is usually awarded to pretentious codswallop. I'd imagine that "utter stupidity"—cartoonish, to boot&mdah;fits right in with the arts intelligentsia.

[SES1066]

Are we getting to the point where if a ‘prestigious’ “artist” says that a 100 people should jump off of a cliff, ...

Now if I could choose the other 99, I’d be willing to be the last one to sacrifice myself for ‘art’.

“I have a little list, they’ll never be missed!”

[Organic Panic]

I have utter disdain for shock “artists.” There is nothing artsy about throwing a piano off a building and breaking things. If it were, rednecks would be put on a pedestal like Da Vinci.

As for cool factor... I’d love to push a piano off a building. But I’ll have to settle for liveleak videos.

[arbitrary.squid]

This is just like when code enforcement told me I couldn’t build a working trebuchet in my front yard.

I didn’t have too many plans to actually utilize it.

[InvisibleChurch]

and utter stupidity” of the stunt.