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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hey, it’s only due to the efforts of workin’ man pro-labor Democrats like John Murtha that we were able to secure Federal Funding to have raccoon painting jobs in Johnstown.
I’ve travelled through a lot of states and PA seems to have the most dead varmits on the highway. Arkansas, with all those dead ‘dillos, might be a distant second ...
That’s not a raccoon, it’s a possum. And it’s not recent.
Back in the 80’s, when I first started to drive I remember that the city crew painted around a dead animal and it took a few weeks to get it straightened out, figuratively and literally..
Please review the remainder of the thread. I clearly stated that I was not trying to pass off that photo as being related.
I got a photo like this about Texas 15 years ago.
The one I’m thinking of couldn’t have been more than a couple of years ago. This is turning into a traditional stunt.
Ha! That skunk is like “Finally, I figured out what this camouflage is good for”.
That poster is hilarious!!
That road paint really tends to ruin the flavor though.
Oh I have a much better Union story than that.
Many years ago I worked as a engineer for a defense contractor that had union laborers (the engineers were not unionized, so you can eliminate Boeing for your speculations).
After finishing up work on a project and getting transfer to a new project, an engineer friend of mine was being moved to his new location in a trailer on the opposite end of the plant (over half a mile away). Upon arriving at his new location he noticed that the movers had forget his telephone, so he called up the riggers and scheduled them to move his phone.
Hours later, his phone arrived. sitting by itself on a pallet, being moved by a forklift, with two riggers walking beside the forklift.
And the Union drones wondered why the engineers hated working with them.
(BTW, in case anyone is wondering why my friend didn’t just go get the phone himself, it’s because he would have gotten written up for it and him and his manager would have gotten in trouble and his project would have had to pay whatever outrageous charge the Union claimed was rightfully theirs for moving the phone.)
Oh. Well, then, never mind.
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