[HN Gopher] Google battling 'fox infestation' on roof of PS1B Lo...
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Google battling 'fox infestation' on roof of PS1B London office
Author : pseudolus
Score : 26 points
Date : 2025-06-09 21:29 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| more_corn wrote:
| Have they considered aerial fox hunt?
| hengheng wrote:
| London has foxes, and they'll dig a hole where they can, and they
| are hard to catch?
|
| Give me a break.
| vidarh wrote:
| London is full of foxes, that are so unafraid of people that
| it's not uncommon for them casually walking past in the middle
| of the day.
| ClawsOnPaws wrote:
| If those foxes were to spontaneously combust, then Google would
| have a Firefox problem.
| awesome_dude wrote:
| At issue is that the foxes are (slightly) electrocuting
| themselves, whilst in a metallic bath - thus they are being...
| chromed.
| looofooo0 wrote:
| Great culture reference for the fox problem of London: The
| Strange Tale of the Crack Fox The Mighty Boosh
| https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008fm1c
| itsanaccount wrote:
| Have they considered living in harmony with other sentient
| creatures?
| mushroomba wrote:
| I don't understand why this is a problem. The roof is surely
| occupied by birds, rats, and mice. Is the roof designed to
| include the natural world or not?
| pimlottc wrote:
| > some foxes had begun to dig burrows in the perfectly
| manicured grounds
|
| Obviously the landscaping was designed to look pretty and win
| awards, not to host actual wildlife
| woodruffw wrote:
| Another possible interpretation is that the grounds are laid
| out such that rainfall doesn't cause the roof's soil to erode
| and wash off.
|
| (This is without any positive or negative value judgement,
| just an observation that we don't have to reach for "it needs
| to look pretty" to explain why having foxes on the roof isn't
| ideal.)
| pimlottc wrote:
| I didn't mean to cast aspersions on this project in
| particular, just to note that while we often expect nature
| to conform to our specifications, it may have other
| ideas...
| highpost wrote:
| Menlo Park is not in San Francisco.
| neilv wrote:
| It's karma, for Google effectively seizing the beloved public
| roof garden in Cambridge (USA), for their offices.
|
| Now the 'secret garden' refuge of stressed MIT students, office
| workers, and locals... has shrunk, and been re-landscaped, as a
| kinda creepy Google-style nano-campus party roof deck, which
| feels like you're trespassing, and you're the view for their
| windows and the new surveillance cameras.
|
| The fox spirits know your selfish transgressions.
|
| https://www.cambridgeday.com/2012/05/22/despite-urging-new-b...
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| https://www.cambridgeday.com/2012/07/19/public-loses-40-of-r...
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| https://www.cambridgeday.com/2013/09/12/one-year-later-agenc...
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| https://www.cambridgeday.com/2015/06/23/ex-cra-official-pays...
| dhosek wrote:
| I'm looking at the picture and the roof is many stories up in the
| sky. I think they've got foxes in more places than just the roof.
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