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44 san fransisco california this is the last of the olympus pictures from the road trip now i move back to the yashica samurai.
It was strange to come across this sign so soon after it was on Explore. I had never seen it in the Highway Code and looking at it again I was baffled as to its meaning. After all it is in a remote spot high in the mountain reached only by a steep and windy single track road that ends in a dead end at the dam. This road has a well maintained and locked gate a mile or two back down the road preventing access to unauthorised vehicles. And then there is a second very well maintained and locked gate making doubly sure vehicles do not go along the dam wall.
So why have a sign warning of vehicles on the dam wall? This isn't a layby off the A34 where Polish and Romanian express international delivery drivers park up waiting for the next load. This is a remote location in the mountain. To me, with my farming pedigree, the sign might jokily be interpreted as a warning to Welsh sheep farmers, watch out for runaway trucks crashing through your sheep dip.
But I was concerned to be told the genuine reason for the sign by a flickr contact. Apparently back in Victorian times, one night a train stopped on a viaduct. Some passengers thought they had stopped at a station, opened the doors and stepped out into the dark expecting the platform to be beneath their feet. Instead they fell to their deaths over the side of the viaduct.
And apparently that is the reason for the sign. Just in case a truck does go through one locked gate, and then the other, at night time in the dark and then stops on the dam wall instead of at either end where there is room to park, and then someone leaps out of the cab. But that won't be a problem if they park in the hand railed area as instructed.
But really if such a sign was only ever needed in the dark, why isn't it illuminated?
This giant peace sign in tiny lights appeared on the front of a house in my neighborhood shortly after the Iraq war began.
Kingsburg, Ca.
Okay, if you're not in the mood for snark, move along. These signs have been making their appearance around town. I've seen similar messages on bumper stickers previously. That goes along with all the other crapola bumper sticker slogans such as, "If you can read this, thank a teacher," and so many other self-serving exclamations made on all manner of media. The implications are that they are doing this as a favor to us, rather than as a means of making money. The idiocy of this should be obvious. Why not "If you have a bank account, thank a banker?" Or what about, "If you haven't been arrested for tax evasion, thank a CPA?" It goes on and on. Extended out to it's logical conclusion, we must all get bumper stickers to exclaim our virtue and reason for existing on the planet. How about, "If you're a cop, thank us criminals?" "If you're toilet flushes, thank your plumber."
I mean, really. how dumb are we?