On Mon, 7 May 2001 16:13:04 -0400, in misc.transport.road "N.W.Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Today, on I-390 SB (not far from where a motorist was killed by a stray >bullet fired from adjoining woods) I saw something weird. On the last 55mph >speed limit sign, somebody had spraypainted in bright orange, "KPH 100". >Then, on the first 65mph sign, they'd written "KPH 120". At first, I thought >it was a typical change-the-speed limit prank (of which I saw a genuine >example later on where 40 had become 140) pulled by somebody too dim to use >black paint or to realize that 55 becomes 88 more readily than 100...until I >saw the KPH. I looked around to see if Michael Koerner was lurking around in >the brush with a discarded paint can nearby, but he wasn't. :-) > >Oh, also, somebody at NYSTA had made a detour sign say the following "BRIDGE >CLOSED Z MILES". Algebra, or merely a poorly-fashioned "2"? > -- UK Metrication Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
