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Posted on 07/09/2003 9:46:06 AM PDT by bedolido
City officials in Mesa, Arizona, have mistakenly installed two bus shelters where no buses run.
The installation cost £19,000 at a time when the city is cutting its public transit budget to save money.
The shelters were installed as part of a £4.6m improvement project finished about a year ago.
Although there is a bus service on part of the road, the vehicles turn before reaching the shelters.
And even though the shelters have signs posted saying no buses pass by, people still wait.
"It slipped through all of us and didn't get caught until after the fact," said Jeff Kramer, Mesa's deputy engineer for design.
© Associated Press
Story filed: 14:31 Friday 27th June 2003
That's the best part of the story.
Gwinnett County, Georgia has installed a BUS SYSTEM with NO RIDERS -- and/or apparently on routes where no one wants to go!! EVERY time I encounter one of their coaches, the driver and perhaps one other are aboard.
It would be cheaper to have people who need to get somewhere and don't have a car to call the local cop shop and have them take them where they want to go.
I am alarmed to learn that the Mesa, Arizona authorities are making payments in British pounds.
Could they be laundering funds from George Galloway, the British Labor MP accused of taking bribes from Saddam Hussein?
But what if they do not want to go to the donut shop?
Is Arizona in the UK?
| even though the shelters have signs posted saying no buses pass by, people still wait.
These spammers could just drive around from one of these shelters to the next, hawking fake viagra and offering to put millions in people's bank accounts for free, in return for the routing numbers to their accounts. I haven't worked out the math on this, but this could put a real dent in the market for mass-email blasters. |
BWAHAHAHA!! That was my first puzzlement about this story.
FMCDH
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I just had this great idea for fighting SPAM. We get the Nigerians and the Mortgage Rate guys and the Penis Pills guys together and we talk them into building these things all over the country, instead of spending their money on computers. Why spend a bunch of money spraying these messages all over the planet, trying to find the stupid people, when you can get the stupid people to come to you?