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2008-04-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-20 12:58|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Well, hell - too bad I can't type.

Mods - any chance of some help with the title? :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-20 13:09|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-04-20 13:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Right, to achieve common sense, I always step into a phone booth and pull over my plain brown wrapper. It's phone booths that are becoming scarce.

Posted by Regular Guy 2008-04-20 13:14|| 2008-04-20 13:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Comment from the article....

Well, even if you were lazy and disregarded the fact that your vehicle was over 9 feet, I can tell you, since I live about 10 minutes from that picture, that they have over-height sensors that blink lights at you on either side of that bridge. So you'd have to trust the GPS, ignore your knowledge that the bus is over 9 feet, AND ignore the blinking lights over the sign that's labeled "Over-height Warning". That's just stupidity.

Judging by the pic the driver didn't even slow down and must have been going at a pretty good clip.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-04-20 14:06|| 2008-04-20 14:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Many years ago, I drove a school bus part-time. I was headed down a busy street one day when a Honda Accord decided to change lanes into the side of the bus. I stopped and checked on my passengers, who had barely felt the impact, then got out to check on the Honda. It had bounced off the bus, jumped the curb and spun around before coming to rest in a nearby parking lot. The first words out of the driver's mouth were the monumentally obvious, "I never saw you!"
I thought, gee, this bus is 46 feet long, 10 feet high, and painted bright yellow. I don't know what else we could do other than put strobe lights on it.
In the years since, some school bus operators have in fact started using strobe lights, arranged Christmas light fashion down the sides. Stupidity remains invincible however, and accidents still happen.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-04-20 17:41|| 2008-04-20 17:41|| Front Page Top

#5 who the hell builds an overpass with a nine foot clearance?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-20 17:50|| 2008-04-20 17:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Frank, it is a left over from many year ago and is only a pedestrian o/p. I think that was its original intent, but the pix that we are seeing here are way funny; its anybody but the driver or teh bus company's fault.

Remember the guy with the rental car that followed the GPS mandate to turn, and turn he did right onto some train tracks only to meet a commuter train? and he was bitching about how he was on the hook for the car when it was the GPS's fault?
too bad these Morons didn't get Darwined; at least they wouldn't pass their particular stoopid gene on.....

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-04-20 19:58|| 2008-04-20 19:58|| Front Page Top

#7 no doubt it was the bus driver's fault, but it appears to be a pedestrian underpass, not a road. Jeebus

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-20 20:06|| 2008-04-20 20:06|| Front Page Top

#8 "appears to be a pedestrian underpass"

I dunno, guys - there's a center line painted on the road, and a standard metal guardrail.

The driver's ~~a moron~~ at fault in any case.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-20 20:18|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-04-20 20:18|| Front Page Top

#9 we have bike/ped paths striped like that, Barbara

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-20 20:23|| 2008-04-20 20:23|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm glad this idiot didn't single handedly exterminate an entire girl's softball team.

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