Posted on 04/28/2016 1:50:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Oklahoma drivers know a thing or two about potholes, but one Mississippi man got so fed up with the nuisance that he decided to get the city’s attention in a unique way.
“After 14 calls to 311, I thought it was time to do something different,” said Eddie Prosser.
Prosser says a huge pothole in the middle of his residential street has been a nightmare for drivers.
Prosser told WJTV that the pothole appeared about 16 months ago, which caused two smaller potholes to form about a year ago.
When his calls for help went unanswered, Prosser decided to throw a party.
Balloons and a big card adorned a caution sign on the pothole, reading, “Happy Birthday Pothole” and “I’ve been here for over a year.”
After the ‘party,’ WAPT reports that city crews filled the potholes.
Ridicule works...
good to see.
How creative and hilarious!
Chicago has some world-class potholes. They also have something equally as dangerous - the elevated manhole covers.
(snicker snicker right?)
No joke. These things stick up 1-2 feet above the pavement like a pipe -and they are NOT MARKED! No reflectors, nothing. Imagine hitting one of those!
Brilliant!
Their version of a speed bump?
In my town, they’ll fill a pothole, and make it into a big bump! Just as bad!
IIRC, Jackson Miss. has a SOLID non-white government and so was probably paying more attention to BLM and “White Privilege” matters.
“Their version of a speed bump?”
You do know that the first people to complain about speed bumps and speed humps were the police and firefighters, right? ;-)
I have lived in this neighborhood for 31 years. A block from me is a potential sinkhole. The city has been ‘filling’ it for 30 years then it sinks again.
A policeman stopped me one day to ask why I crossed the yellow line on the street. I told him, “I have lived here for 30 years. That ‘fix’ in the street, which is now ‘sunk’ again, is going to be a big sinkhole someday. I do not want to be over it when it happens.”
He simply smiled and walked away. ;-)
#POTHOLELIVESMATTER..........................
It seems the DPW doesn’t know its pothole from a hole in the ground.
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I hear there are four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
Doesn't hold a candle to DC
Didn’t know that. Not surprised. They are bad enough when you are only barely moving and can’t imagine going over one when in pursuit or racing to a fire. Still support their use in parking lots and residential neighborhoods. We have a lot of people that go roaring down our street in spite of the fact that there are lots of kids playing, riding bikes, etc. and signs posted everywhere. Published speed limit is 20 mph. Finally got local police to monitor on a somewhat regular basis and start issuing tickets. The boulevard with 45 mph is only one block over - could never figure out why speeders don’t always use that street.
Yes, but the holes are rather small.
You had to count them all?
i wonder if he has considered ftaking matters into his own hands
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