JUDY Shaw Stewart has come to recognise which side of the referendum debate drivers are on, just from the way they hoot their horns at her.
For most of the week, the 59-year-old grandmother has been sitting 13 hours day beside the A84 protecting her "No Thanks" sign with her Union Jack tent beside her.
She was moved to base herself in an area of felled woodland, near the Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, in protest at the number of Vote No signs removed or destroyed in the area.
"I definitely support the Better Together Campaign, but I am passionate about free speech," she said.
She knows the owners of the land on which she is now encamped. They had put up banners, but were torn down.
Mrs Shaw Stewart lives nearby and had been canvassing locally. So she made her point and is getting a response.
She said: "Apparently 15,000 cars use this road every day and there has been a lot of hooting. I am getting pretty good at telling which is which. The short cheery hoots are definitely No voters and the long aggressive ones are Yes voters.
''Sometimes they stop and shout rude words and then zoom off in their cars."
But some Yes supporters stop and talk to her and are very friendly, agreeing the signs should be left alone. She starts her sentry duty at 7.15am and finishes 8.15pm.
Vandalising signs is happening across Scotland. In Moray Yes campaigners had been complaining A reward of £500 was offered for information leading to the conviction of whoever targeted signs around Elgin, Buckie, Lossiemouth and Forres.
A 24-year -old man wwas arrested and released after signs were allegedly taken from a field overlooking the A96. A report has been sent to the Procurator Fiscal.
Douglas Ross, Tory councillor for Fochabers-Lhanbryde and a member of Better Together Moray, is seeking to claim the reward to give it to local charities.
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