XPost: alt.forestry, misc.rural   
   From: nospam@spam.com   
      
   "Jim"  wrote in message   
   news:4582943A.C8CAC0A8@bellsouth.net...   
   > Ann wrote:   
   >   
   >> Jim wrote:   
   >> > Ann wrote:   
   > <...>   
   >> >> their car went off I-95 in NC. Someone called in the accident and the   
   >> >> location, but whoever looked found nothing.  Later, according to the   
   >> >> news reports, a highway worker noticed a damaged sign (?), looked, and   
   >> >> found their car.   
   >> >   
   >> > I heard about this wreck today.  tonight on the evening news we got   
   >> > pictures and sound of some pissed off family members who cut just short   
   >> > of blasting dumb southerners for not being able to locate the scene of   
   >> > the wreck.    I can relate to their loss and to their feelings of anger   
   >> > and resentment.  after all, in the true nature of the american, it's   
   >> > anybody's fault other than their own.   
   >>   
   >> Since the person who called 9-1-1 gave the next mile marker (141; the car   
   >> was eventually found near 140),   
   >   
   > see what poor math skills can do.  "dumb southerner   
   > can't even read a number correctly."   
   >   
      
   Emergency workers know to look BEFORE the reported mile marker also because   
   so many people report the next mile marker they see.  Do you mentally note   
   every mile marker so that at any time you can report the correct one?   
      
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