Via Radley Balko, who titles his post: Future Headline: Motorist Kills Half Dozen Fifth Graders While Trying To Read Speed Limit Sign
I guess having the speed limit change from say, 6AM to 9AM and from 2PM to 5PM is just too difficult. Instead motorists have to read very carefully to see whether they should be driving at 25mph or 45mph. Which is, of course, totally insane.
One thing I get from reading Balko’s blog and work is that the craziest government of all is local government. With police militarization, crazy local governments are given surplus military equipment so that they can be crazy and well-armed at the same time. But the real burdensome regulations out there tend to be at the local level.
Think of this speed limit sign as just a symbol of that onerous stupidity.
Photoshopped
Like TJM, I also wonder if it’s photoshopped.
It’s hilarious either way.
nope, not photoshopped. The jpeg is named with a location- if you google that you’ll come up with tons of local news stories referencing it. For example, this is from a Detroit FOX station. http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/offbeat/speed-limit-sign-in-white-lake-too-complicated-question-mark-20120214-ms
If it’s a hoax, it is a very elaborate one.
You know, this is sort of an interesting side question: There is a lot of energy invested in completely unlikely hoaxes these days (climate, 9/11, birth certificates etc…) while at the same time there is a lot of skepticism about things that are pretty easily verified. You can draw a straightish line though both of those things by saying people are just skeptical in general, but that doesn’t sound right to me. For example, I remember seeing a couple articles lately about how juries these have become completely credulous credulous about DNA/trace evidence at trials…they think it’s all foolproof like CSI.
ugh, my proofreading leaves a lot to be desired, eh?
*I remember seeing a couple articles lately about how juries have become completely credulous about DNA/trace evidence at trials…they think it’s foolproof like CSI.
That “School Days Only” at the bottom might be confusing for folks without kids. Could we get some actual dates up there, I wonder?
Indeed, what’s a “school day”? Maybe the people here have school on Saturday but don’t have it on Tuesday, unless it’s June, in which case school is seven days a week until they’ve met the required number of days for the year, and after that there’s no school at all until September.
Around here we just have signs “15 mph if light is flashing” which seem to work fine. Sort of have to be smarter than the sign, though.
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Man, I get no hat-tip for being from there?! That sign refers to the middle school I attended, and that building in the back is my high school.
It’s one of those things – I’m not sure you *want* to get a hat-tip for being from there. You know? Like TMI outside of email? Anyways, HAT TIP GOES TO RYAN BONNEVILLE!
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