Evening traffic report with Neasden Postlethwaite

[hirez]

Oh, FFS.

They've (Bristol council, rather than grey aliens or the Illuminati. If you want traffic-management by conspiracy-conjured Tulpa you have to go to Michigan, where the signage is run by the Trilateral Commission. I wish I still had the URL for the webpage that described the number and nature of the alien bases dotted across the US. One was

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[hirez]

Somewhat sobering, isn't it?

[hirez]

Quite.

I'd seen different footage a couple of days ago and meant to post about it then, but it's the stuff shot inside the thing as it folds up round the dummy...

[FX: Shuddering]

A while ago, I wrote about looking at the remains of crashed cars when they were towed onto the forecourt of Tubb's Garage in Andoversford in the early seventies. There were a lot of accidents on that stretch of carriageway before they put the lights in.

Indeed, the lights up at Shipton Heights are more or less a direct result of a particularly messy accident that involved some friends.

As a culture, we seem to have a collective blind-spot about that sort of thing.

[valkyriekaren]

Hun, you should try living on my road. The A205 merges 4 lanes of traffic into 3. Badly. It's like a horn concerto out there.

[hirez]

In my current mood, I'd be out there with a hunting rifle, picking off the really loud ones.

People, right? Far too many of the buggers.

[valkyriekaren]

I'm not quite ready to go postal, but if you do, I'm totally up for being the person with the shaky hand taking the mobile phone footage for YouTube.

[hirez]

Damn. I was rather hoping you'd hand me the ammunition.

[hirez]

Isn't it?

I found it via a Hemmings autoblog, wherein some old car fondler went right off on one and vowed never to read such filth again.

[badnewswade]

Freaking hell! I've always wondered which car would win out of a modern one and a 1950s land whale.

Good luck at the con tomorrow! I might even be there.