Stubborn Pelican Forces CHP To Issue SigAlert In Culver City

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[BenLurkin]

The stubborn pelican had landed on the ramp that takes the 90 Freeway onto the northbound 405, and would not leave, according to City News Service, so California Highway Patrol officers blocked both lanes and a SigAlert was issued.

[BenLurkin]

[bobby.223]

Sig Alert? 516 or 716?

[Steely Tom]

For those of you not familiar with the ways of California, a "SigAlert" means that anyone operating a motor vehicle must don a head-to-toe aluminum-foil suit to keep out the alpha rays, like Tony Roberts' character did in Annie Hall.

[BenLurkin]

Isn’t that the film where Woody Allen says that the one and only contribution California has made to civilization is right turn of red?

[Steely Tom]

Yeah, and where Tony Roberts reports that the women in LA are just like Playboy centerfolds, except that they can move their arms and legs.

[al baby]

The Richard Nixon freeway

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I have the hat.

[al baby]

Oh yeah if they wanted to find the knife oh used to kill Nicole and Ron its in the ballon a creek and the 405 they should have sent divers down

[Steely Tom]

I have the hat.

That's good, but in LA they value the crotch-covering secton more.

[rockinqsranch]

In 1941, Loyd C. Sigmund worked for radio station KMPC AM 710 in Los Angeles. Working for Golden West Broadcasters in 1955, he developed a system of reporting traffic jams and major traffic accidents in the Los Angeles area. The invention initially involved a specialized radio receiver connected to the LAPD. This eliminated the need for each radio station to call the LAPD in order to report major traffic problems. In 1969, the California Highway Patrol took over the Sigalert system. The term “Sigalert” is now officially defined as an unplanned event which causes at least one lane of traffic to be closed for 30 minutes or more. Sigalerts are still used today during news radio and TV news shows which broadcast during peak traffic hours.

[BenLurkin]

Me AND kitteh have the hats...

[goldstategop]

[Organic Panic]

SHOOT THE DAMN BIRD!!!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[Yogafist]

Actually, the Richard Nixon Freeway is the SR-90 (Imperial Highway), that runs through Yoba Linda, and passes his library.

[al baby]

Maybe be but the joke was when the marina freeway was fished it was nicknamed the Richard Nixon freeway because it went nowhere ask Johnny Carson

[Yogafist]

You know, I thought I was missing something when I replied.

[Alas Babylon!]

Damn, they’ll shoot some little kid’s Chihuahua for yapping at them but they can’t shoot a bird?

[BenLurkin]

People take it to get to the Slauson cut-off.

[stylecouncilor]

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