Of course, there's also no way Michael would have put the unit first or used
"KPH>" <gg>
With dimwitted sign defacers as our "friends," I guess we don't need
enemies.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: May 07, 2001 14:03
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:12696] (fwd) A new kind of vandalism...Metric Power!!!
>
>
> 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"?
> >
>
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