[DPMD]

This is what you get when you let the public service union workers out without their seven supervisors.

[coffeecup]

Not My Job

[cripplecreek]

And no foreman was on the job to remove it.

Yeah, we’ll never survive if unions go the way of the dinosaur. /s

[DManA]

Again? This exact thing happened a couple years ago and it was a big deal. Is someone staging these things?

[DManA]

Again? This exact thing happened a couple years ago and it was a big deal. Is someone staging these things?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

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.

[KarlInOhio]

The poor raccoon was a political moderate: in the middle of the road with a yellow stripe down its back and very, very dead.

[ArrogantBustard]

Has nobody ever thought to put a wedge or plow blade in front of the spray head?

It seems the obvious solution ...

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[Mister Da]

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!

[Fresh Wind]

[BillyBonebrake]

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 ...