Ram-raider

Terry Eagleton, the most accomplished ram-raider in the shopping mall of ideas, the ultimate Critic of Bray, illustrates this fancy footwork brilliantly in a recent article in The Times Literary Supplement.

Man, to ram-raider, 'Why have you painted your car green on one side and yellow on the other?' Ram-raider, 'Because I like to hear the witnesses contradict each other.'

Whereas the amateur ram-raider tends to work at night and favours premises that are empty, the professional will target open premises during the day.

Other managers pointed out that more often than not this type of shutter can be levered from the wall easily or pushed into a window by a ram-raider; that shutters were difficult to operate manually and prone to operational faults; that they acted as something of a magnet to graffiti 'artists'; and that they prevented goods from remaining on display when stores were shut.