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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 09:34 PM
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Pavement Patty unveiled in Canada

A new kind of speed bump

http://www.yahoo.com/_ylt=AqD3OUB_MH...ns-of-children
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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 10:04 PM
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Yup another stupid idea. It will probably result in somebody doing a severe right or left and smashing into someone else or thing.
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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 10:05 PM
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That looks like a good idea get people in the habit of not slowing down for fake kids in the road, then when a real kid runs out they get mashed idiots
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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 10:10 PM
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My thoughts exactly...Seeing it once is all it takes, once they know its there, they will ignore it from then on.
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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 10:25 PM
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Just because someone is in charge doesn't mean they know anything or have any sign of a brain.

Thankfully this doesn't apply to everyone in charge. There's still a few out there that are in the right jobs/positions. This just isn't one of those times. I can see some serious rear end collisions caused by drivers in a panic, or jams created by drivers stopping in the middle of the road.
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by 1-2-3
Just because someone is in charge doesn't mean they know anything or have any sign of a brain.

Thankfully this doesn't apply to everyone in charge. There's still a few out there that are in the right jobs/positions. This just isn't one of those times. I can see some serious rear end collisions caused by drivers in a panic, or jams created by drivers stopping in the middle of the road.
Exactly.
Not everyone is an idiot up here or down there but we sure do have a lot of idiots wasting our money on crap like this.

Its insane how much of our money is wasted. I bet thats something all the non-idiots can relate to no matter where you live.



Change that to an image of a politician...
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Scotty
Change that to an image of a politician...
If you do that, everyone will just speed up to make sure they get the hit.
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 10:46 AM
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There is gonna be a darwin award off of this...

What happens when someone slams on the brakes and causes a 2 million car pile up?

What a mooron...
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 01:05 PM
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Leave it to British Coloumbia to come up with something like that.
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by rip 112
Someone will hit a real kid and use that as a defense saying they thought it was speed thing.
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 01:49 PM
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Maybe a fake moneybag would be better.
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 01:56 PM
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That is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen.

Someone paints one of those on my street and Im gonna paint over it.
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 01:57 PM
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This has law suit written all over it. Driver sues the driver who rear ended them. That driver sues the municapality that put the fake child up for causeing the wreck. The 1st driver had a heart attack because they thought they just killed a child. that drivers family sues the manicapality for wrongful death. Oh ya this is a real good idea. Where do these people come from that get these stupid ideas?
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 02:09 PM
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I would slow down if it was a puppy maybe.
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 02:10 PM
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People with bad legs are 10 points.
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