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  • Instead, high-vis has become our modern cloak of invisibility.

    Britain isn't called great for nothing | Bella Bathurst 2011

  • Reflective strips are useful in the city and lights after dark are essential, but high-vis is just a uniform and the point of uniforms is to make people more anonymous.

    Britain isn't called great for nothing | Bella Bathurst 2011

  • By the time a nearby pair of Bobbies have heard the radio shout and sprinted down the street in their big hats, high-vis coats, boots and body armour, they are too late.

    If You Fail, We All Fail. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • It's bad enough nobody sells a high-vis helmet, but NYC orders a custom-designed thing just for riding in traffic and they make it lo-vis.

    Slow and Steady: The Tortoise and the Helmet Hair BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • There was high-vis everywhere but the police just blended in with the railway staff, car pak attendants etc. with the exception of what I saw at Newport, South Wales.

    The Plastic Fantastic « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • You have to have to be able to recreate remotely the kind of situation awareness a human would get from a high-vis cockpit.

    Air forces' futures 2008

  • Just utterly fearless, full of confidence, zooming up Kingsland Road in my geeky high-vis jacket with the evening breeze ruffling my hair zooming might be exaggerating a little...

    Archive 2008-08-01 The List Writer 2008

  • Just utterly fearless, full of confidence, zooming up Kingsland Road in my geeky high-vis jacket with the evening breeze ruffling my hair zooming might be exaggerating a little...

    Confidence The List Writer 2008

  • If someone had the audacity to come up to me and tell me to get down the gym, particularly if they were wearing polyester and a 'high-vis' vest, I would feel it my duty as someone who enjoys chocolate cake and having a decent pair of breasts, to tell them to get stuffed.

    Fat police on the loose 2008

  • If someone had the audacity to come up to me and tell me to get down the gym, particularly if they were wearing polyester and a 'high-vis' vest, I would feel it my duty as someone who enjoys chocolate cake and having a decent pair of breasts, to tell them to get stuffed.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

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