The Tartan Army has a well earned reputation, they are mostly harmless and very benificial where ever they go.

For football ‘hooligans’, they put traffic cones on statues.

There’s a story behind this. One Hogmany in Glasgow in 1989 some students put a cone on top of the Duke of Wellington statue in Glasgow’s town square. The press ran an article the next day saying hooligans had caused harm to the public purse as the cost to remove the cone was considerable.

The legend was born.

The people decided, if having a laugh costs the public purse a little, we’re going with a little civil disobedience and having a laugh. And so it came to be.

The council gave up, and a cone remains on the statue of the Duke of Wellington, and it’s almost a stand off… if the council ever tries to remove the cone, there will be 1000s of young men on the standby to replace it, while drunk.

Here’s how we see it, the Gov says you can’t have fun like this, and we are saying, try fucking stop us!

It’s a mark of liberty.

It’s a stamp, this is our town, we belong.

It isn’t a conquering, it’s an adoption, if the Scots ‘Cone’ your town, then you have passed the litimus test of being a safe and secure city where the right of freedom of expression exists.

It’s a sign of disobediance, of vandalism, of defacing public property.

But is comes with a very obvious comedic purpose, lets unload this a bit, lets lighten the mood, let’s take all this with a pinch of salt, let’s just laugh at it.

And that’s the point, Scots are so sick of oppression and being told what we can and cannot do, that this is almost the last act of rebellion. So it stands as a fire for freedom to individual rights.

But remember, if the Tartan Army Cones your city, you have been adopted. It’s reserved for cities where free expression is the norm and if your baptised with a cone, wear it as a badge of honor.