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PennDOT crew paints road line over dead raccoon
WPXI ^
| August 9, 2012
Posted on 08/09/2012 9:52:44 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation official says a crew couldn't avoid painting over a dead raccoon when they put new double-yellow lines on a western Pennsylvania road last week.
But the Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown reports Thursday that a motorist pointed out the mistake before it could be cleaned up.
Sean McAfee tells the newspaper he almost wrecked his motorcycle because he was laughing so hard when he saw the freshly painted road kill in Johnstown on Aug. 2.
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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: penndot; raccoon; roadkill
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
This is what you get when you let the public service union workers out without their seven supervisors.
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posted on
08/09/2012 9:55:22 AM PDT
by
DPMD
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
08/09/2012 9:55:51 AM PDT
by
coffeecup
To: rightwingintelligentsia
And no foreman was on the job to remove it.
Yeah, we’ll never survive if unions go the way of the dinosaur. /s
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posted on
08/09/2012 9:56:29 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: DPMD
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posted on
08/09/2012 9:57:30 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Again? This exact thing happened a couple years ago and it was a big deal. Is someone staging these things?
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posted on
08/09/2012 9:57:55 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Again? This exact thing happened a couple years ago and it was a big deal. Is someone staging these things?
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08/09/2012 9:58:04 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: rightwingintelligentsia
PennDOT spokesman John Ambrosini says paint crews know to avoid such animals and usually have a foreman on the job who clears any dead animals off the road before the paint-spraying truck equipment passes by. This crew didn't have a foreman and the equipment was too big to turn around in traffic, remove the animal and repair the paint. Well, they could have waited a couple hours -- on the clock -- for a foreman to show up -- at overtime rates -- to kick or shovel the dead racoon out of the way.
Seriously, this is beyond any parody of union work rules that I could imagine.
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posted on
08/09/2012 9:59:20 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: rightwingintelligentsia
The poor raccoon was a political moderate: in the middle of the road with a yellow stripe down its back and very, very dead.
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posted on
08/09/2012 10:00:09 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
To: rarestia
it’s a damn possum, not a raccoon.......idiots
to a lib, it’s a female deer
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posted on
08/09/2012 10:00:29 AM PDT
by
advertising guy
(the White House hasn't had this much leakin since Billy Carter watered the Rose Garden)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Has nobody ever thought to put a wedge or plow blade in front of the spray head?
It seems the obvious solution ...
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posted on
08/09/2012 10:02:21 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: rarestia
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posted on
08/09/2012 10:08:41 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
(It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
To: ArrogantBustard
Has nobody ever thought to put a wedge or plow blade in front of the spray head? Bite your tongue! That would mean less union jobs. I mean, what would the foreman do if they did that????
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08/09/2012 10:12:29 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: advertising guy
"its a damn possum, not a raccoon.......idiots"The photo in post #5 doesn't have anything to do with this story.
That pic is several years old.
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posted on
08/09/2012 10:13:00 AM PDT
by
SnuffaBolshevik
(In a tornado, even turkeys can fly.)
To: DManA
Is someone staging these things?
About a decade ago, a MA DPW supervisor would toss a fake deer carcass on a highway median, just before rush hour.
The calls would come in, and wouldn't you know it, it would be at the end of the day, and he and his crew would be on overtime to go remove the "hazard".
To: DPMD
Most of the painting trucks are actually owned by private companies. They are contracted by the state to paint the lines on the highways.
I knew a guy who owned a company out of NY state.
He had crews painting lines all over the northeastern US.
He did mostly interstate highways. His crews were non union.
Those painting trucks are very expenisive. He lived in a very large house on the shore of Lake Erie. My friend had the contract to do his landscaping/lawn care of his home.
To: ArrogantBustard
Has nobody ever thought to put a wedge or plow blade in front of the spray head? That would put a union employee out of work.
This crew didn't have a foreman and the equipment was too big to turn around in traffic, remove the animal and repair the paint.
I guess they don't even look in front of the machine before they drive forward if a foreman isn't there. This is pathetic.
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08/09/2012 10:16:28 AM PDT
by
Never on my watch
(I can see November from the Chick-Fil-A drive through lane.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
These local news station’s web sites can be so crappy. Here you have a story that SCREAMS for a picture, yet no picture. Doesn’t ANYONE at the station own a camera phone? Duh!
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08/09/2012 10:16:55 AM PDT
by
Mister Da
(The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
To: advertising guy
That isn’t the picture from the site. That’s just one I pulled from a web search.
The site doesn’t have a picture of the offending raccoon.
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08/09/2012 10:17:21 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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