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Beau Heem View Drop Down
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    Posted: April 30 2005 at 08:10
Hey you all!
Please help me out...

I have a small, but rather irritating problem.

What on earth can be meant with a term

'pylon guard'

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The context where I have encountered the term isn't much help, because I only have a sentence or two of it.

"Mum and Dad said they couldn't understand such vandalism, what sort of person would want to destroy a pylon guard, it was mindless wanton destruction by some idiot taking revenge on society"

I know where this quote originates (Barbara Vine, Grasshopper, p.48) but I can't get my hands on the book down in order to understand the context.

I mean I know what can be meant with a pylon, and I surely understand guard... But the only reference to pylon guard on the net seems to be this

I also fail to see the connection between mum and dad not understanding vandalism and ancient Egypt...


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-Beau
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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2005 at 10:51

I'm fairly literate, and I'm stumped...I don't know if it's something that guards pylons, or a pylon used as a guard.

From the context it definitely seems to be an inanimate object, so forget about the guy wearing the turban.  
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The phrase makes me think of the barbed wire that they wrap around electricity pylons a couple of metres off the ground to stop people from climbing up them.
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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2005 at 13:20
That's all I can think of too.
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hey, i read the article and they say it is a human guard who protects the transmission lines from vandalism; indeed some electricity pylons have been collapsed by vandals.
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Points: 227 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2005 at 04:33
Originally posted by Andhi Andhi wrote:

The phrase makes me think of the barbed wire that they wrap around electricity pylons a couple of metres off the ground to stop people from climbing up them.


I thought about that as well, but in the context it seems, if not inappropriate, at least odd, because the obvious reason for destroying barbed wire that is wrapped around a pylon to prevent people from climbing is that the given destroyer wants to climb the pylon.

On second (3rd, 4th...) thought, I suppose that 'Mum and Dad' wouldn't understand the potential climbing either...

When I first looked at the sentence at hand, I instantly pictured pylon guard to be a huge garden gnome or something...

And I cannot seem to get the picture out of my head...

Thanks for your help...

-Beau
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