Instead of the cost of rolling a tow truck, fire dept, EMS, and police every time some idiot ignores the height limit sign, and the obvious low damn overpass they can't fit under, the city of Wichita is installing a laser sensor that will kick up a 2nd line of warning signs to alert the idiot over 12 foot high that the bridge isn't 12 foot high.
Roughly 2wice a year since the year 2000 a new and different idiot has peeled off the top of his truck or rental delivery van 23 different times
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/City-trying-new-Waterman-street-bridge-clearance-warning-system-364909661.html?
a) You have a great blog, and of the dozen or so I read, it remains my favourite. I like the banner Pictures in particuler.
ReplyDeleteb) Those bridges, and the damn idiots who keep tearing their trucks to pieces. Then again, a defining trait of our species as homo sapiens is our infinite optimism; seeing who (or what) you can score on Saturday night, buying lottery tickets, drinking tap Water when on vacation abroad. And - yes - believing you can just squeeze your vehicle under that bridge.
thanks! You're the 1st person to ever compliment me on the banners!
DeleteI think the other two defining traits are our stupidity and laziness. Add them all up, put them in a person who sits at work all day steering a truck, and we've seen how many crash into low overpasses!
PS Do yoiu want to make a bet on whether that laser device will stop the assaults on that poor bridge? My guess is that the occasional sleepy pro driver will react, but not the ones who just rent a U-Haul for moving their earthly belongings.
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