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Residents of Oregon town say shape of traffic posts is offensive (OF COURSE there's a picture)
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| July 6, 2007
| Melica Johnson
Posted on 07/06/2007 1:43:49 PM PDT by Stoat
Residents of Oregon town say shape of traffic posts is offensive
Story Published: Jul 6, 2007 at 8:20 AM PDT Story Updated: Jul 6, 2007 at 9:06 AM PDT
By Melica Johnson and KATU Web Staff
KEIZER, Ore. - The City of Keizer is taking heat for installing a group of cement posts designed to protect pedestrians from cars, but which some say is a phallic symbol.
A total of 52 of the posts were installed at a busy intersection in Keizer and they are getting a lot of second glances.
A number of residents have complained to the city that the posts resemble male genitalia.
"I can't disagree with that," said City Manager Chris Eppley. "They certainly did not turn out the way we anticipated."
According to Eppley, the posts were ordered from a catalog and looked much different on paper.
"They're a standard style," Eppley said. "I think in the right context they look fine. They just happened not to (look fine) here."
The city is looking into retrofitting the posts with metal collars and chains that run between them, which they hope will change the look. If not, they said the posts will have to go.
"If that fix doesn't work and I still think they look inappropriate, we'll have wasted $20,000 and we'll have to do something different," Eppley said.
Of course, the city could always keep them up and use them for sex education, at least according to one woman we spoke to. "My son said he wanted to hang a sign on it that says 'always use protection,'" she said.
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KEYWORDS: keizer; militantfeminism; oregon; trafficposts
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To: Charles Henrickson
Wait, the complaint is that they look like penises, so the solution is to chain them together in heavy metal collars?
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:50:37 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.)
To: Stoat
The city is looking into retrofitting the posts with metal collars and chains that run between them,And they think that collaring and chaining these "symbols' will stop the debate.
This should fun to watch!
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:50:47 PM PDT
by
Kakaze
(Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
To: Stoat; kevkrom; dead
The city is looking into retrofitting the posts with metal collars and chains. . . . Kinky!
To: DainBramage
Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL! Good one!
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:51:49 PM PDT
by
avacado
To: Stoat
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:52:07 PM PDT
by
PBRSTREETGANG
(Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
To: Stoat
Maybe it was the vinyl weather covers that city employees would roll down over the posts that got everyone's attention?
I've got an idea -- maybe integrate some water art -- an occasional fountain from each one at random intervals?
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:52:20 PM PDT
by
Quiller
(When you're fighting to survive, there is no "try" -- there is only do, or do not.)
To: Stoat
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:52:51 PM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Freeze federal spending RIGHT NOW! Maybe in 25 years, we can be out of debt.)
To: avacado
I am cursed freak of nature. I hope you're a guy!
;-)
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:52:59 PM PDT
by
The Blitherer
(What would a Free Man do?)
To: Stoat
They look like R2D2.
Lucas Films will have their attorneys send a letter out.
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:53:47 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
To: Kakaze
The city is looking into retrofitting the posts with metal collars and chains that run between them, And they think that collaring and chaining these "symbols' will stop the debate.
This should fun to watch!
I was thinking the same thing! Maybe they should put latex over them to hide them...
What a bunch of ding-dongs.
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:54:01 PM PDT
by
Bon mots
To: Stoat
That doesn’t look like a firemans hat to me.
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:54:22 PM PDT
by
gathersnomoss
(If General Patton was alive, he would slap many faces!!)
To: avacado
“I was the model for those posts”
Dreamer!
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:54:32 PM PDT
by
hophead
To: Stoat
“..designed to protect pedestrians from cars, but which some say is a phallic symbol.”
The people in the city of Keizer feel that they got screwed.
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:54:36 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(America, first, last and always.)
To: Quiller
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:55:37 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.)
To: listenhillary
Ok that’s it, everybody, out of the pool.
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:55:38 PM PDT
by
gathersnomoss
(If General Patton was alive, he would slap many faces!!)
To: All
Looks like a trash can to me.
To: Stoat
"...the posts were ordered from a catalog and looked much different on paper."We'll never get it on the album cover!
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:57:01 PM PDT
by
quark
To: KingLiberty
To: JennysCool
A few years back a local woman wrote a complaint in the voice of the people section of our local newspaper.
She was upset over a picture of a naked baby on a billboard because it was winter. She feared that people would see the billboard and assume it was ok for naked babies to be out in the snow.
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:57:32 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: gathersnomoss; jdm
Ok thats it, everybody, out of the pool.It's only a Zagnut...
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posted on
07/06/2007 1:57:35 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.)
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