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I saw this at a music venue. It was strapped onto railings above the audience facing the stage. Says "kick out", is attached by zip ties, looks like a tube wrapped in a durable plastic coat, and looked like it might have a wire running to it.

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[–] dual_sport_dork 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

It appears to be some kind of a rolled up banner, and it probably has a mechanism to remotely release it so it'll unroll.

Hopefully in the process it'll turn out to be short enough not to hit anyone on the head in the process.

[–] Veddit 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Ohh a banner. Right, that makes sense. I thought it might be some sort of pyrotechnics.

So you're thinking "kick out" is just what the banner is saying eg name of a band etc.

[–] GraniteM 6 points 5 months ago

When unrolled it might say "KICK OUT THE JAMS!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

If the place doubles as a sports venue there may be rolled up banners all over the placem

[–] dual_sport_dork 2 points 5 months ago

There appears to be another line of text under it in your picture, although not enough of it is there to be legible. I'm sure it has other content as well -- more text, logos, a photo, whatever.

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