XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android
From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com
Savageduck wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Paul M. Cook wrote
>>> Anyone who doesn't know it, or anyone who
>>> hasn't seen it, has simply been ignorant of it,
>> It has nothing to with ignorance with
>> something as visible as headlight flashing.
>>> like so many other things (such as the
>>> direction of the stripes in a construction sign,
>> No such animal here. No stripes at all in fact.
>>> or such as the direction of increase
>>> in all interstate mile markers,
>> What ? We have mile markets on the side
>> of the road that are appropriate for the
>> cars on that side of the road. You cant even
>> seen what is on the ones on the other side
>> of the road except in your rear vision mirror.
>> And we have fucking great side of a bus
>> sized signs with the distance to major
>> towns just after major intersections too.
>>> or of breakaway signs, etc.).
>> Not at all clear what you are talking about there even after googling it.
> In many states for those "fucking great side of a bus sized signs", and
> some smaller ones, we have mounting posts which are designed to break away
> at the base in the event of a collision. The idea being to reduce impact
> damage. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
That's what I assumed he was talking about, but couldn’t reconcile
that with his comment about 'ignorant of'. Couldn’t see that it
matters if you were ignorant of breakaway signs or not except
in the sense that you might choose to run into one instead of
a car coming in the other direction at a much higher relative
speed or something like that.
> ...and if you fall asleep at the wheel at 75 MPH all bets are off.
>
>
Yeah, happened to a mate of mine. Not
with a sign, with a fucking great tree.
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