Dear America: You totally need to get laid
If there was ever a nation that truly needed to get laid, it’s the United States. You, know, even just a little nooner to knock out the cobwebs, clean the pipes, whatever. Because, honestly, this shit is getting out of hand. To paraphrase the Joker, this nation needs an enema.
Residents of Oregon town say shape of traffic posts is offensive
KEIZER, Ore. - The City of Keizer is taking heat for installing a group of cement posts designed to protect pedestrians from cars, but which some say is a phallic symbol.
A total of 52 of the posts were installed at a busy intersection in Keizer and they are getting a lot of second glances.
A number of residents have complained to the city that the posts resemble male genitalia.
“I can’t disagree with that,” said City Manager Chris Eppley. “They certainly did not turn out the way we anticipated.”
According to Eppley, the posts were ordered from a catalog and looked much different on paper.
“They’re a standard style,” Eppley said. “I think in the right context they look fine. They just happened not to (look fine) here.”
The city is looking into retrofitting the posts with metal collars and chains that run between them, which they hope will change the look. If not, they said the posts will have to go.
“If that fix doesn’t work and I still think they look inappropriate, we’ll have wasted $20,000 and we’ll have to do something different,” Eppley said.
Now, I’m not all that well-traveled, but I feel pretty safe to say that this is the sort of thing that only happens in the U.S. Maybe Turkey.
–WKW
Crossposted at Shakesville
July 10th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
When I’m driving in my car, I pay more attention to where I’m going and where other people are going than to things like the shape and size of posts.
And it’s a salt shaker. Anyone can see that it’s a salt shaker. LOL
They should hire some grafitti kids to paint them up to look like R2D2.
July 11th, 2007 at 1:56 am
Amen. Find that on Orbusmax?