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On 8/17/2010 6:20 PM, wrote:
On Aug 17, 1:26 pm, (Pinstripe Sniper) wrote:
Andrew wrote:
On Aug 17, 12:48 pm, "Steve wrote:
I might make a midnight run tonight ................
Steve
Hey - I long ago gave up looking for rationality in these things -
just view it as an opportunity to get some nice thick aluminium
plate.......
Andrew VK3BFA.


In my neck of the world (S. Nevada) the sign posts are perforated
galvanized 2" square stock. I have a "friend" (Johnny...Table) who
will pick up wiped out sign posts. Handy stuff. The signs
themselves, not so handy "he" says. :-)

PsS

What's amazing to me is how many get flattened in totally decent
weather. Don't know how many times I've gone by a stop sign, street
sign or directional divider sign one day and it's bent over flat the
next. No ice, no rain, nothing. Bunch of drunks, must be. Guess it
keeps the street department in work. Body shops, too. You'd have a
hard time straightening out those sign posts, most resemble a lazy "S"
after ending up underneath. Have some three foot tall concrete
bollards about a foot in diameter in front of the neighborhood post
office, somebody flattened a couple of those, too. Have a 3" pipe in
the center, also filled with concrete. Can't think of any car short
of one traveling at speed flattening one, had to have been a really
substantial truck. Painted bright yellow, too, not exactly
camoflaged. Glad I'm not out much that late(or that early).


Speaking of late or early, just a reminder--if you have kids and set
them a curfew, make sure it's long enough before or after the bars close
that you aren't forcing them to be on the road with all the drunks
heading home.