
Photographed exactly as found, the 'roakill' in this particular instance, deviating from the habitual aluminium drinks cans, is a representation of a knitted woollen puppet, recognized as being one of a group featured in a series of TV advertisements for the Vauxhall Corsa car, of the usual grimly-fascinating kind: a little light internet research has unearthed the fact that it is actually the character 'White' of the fictional pop band 'The C'mons/C.M.O.N.S', which itself might have been created purely for the purpose of the ads. Given also that these characters appear to indulge in a spot of car-jacking in at least one of the ads, it seems somehow rather appropriate that one of their number should be hoist by its own petard, as it were...

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