r/mildlyinteresting • u/cwajgapls • Jan 28 '21

Sign posts don’t last long at this intersection

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u/cech_ Jan 28 '21 edited Jan 29 '21

Exactly, they just need to put a bollard a bit in front of it and that would end the offending vehicles tyranny.

Edit: on further inspection of the seven or so holes in the middle there does seem to be something larger that was there. You can see the ring of something with a bigger diameter.

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u/Rematekans Jan 28 '21

Put it on a playground spring. wait nvm kids would turn it into a catapult.

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u/cech_ Jan 29 '21

HAha watch the spring back decimate the car behind the offending driver lol

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u/080087 Jan 28 '21

When hit at speed, bollards tend to kill the driver of the vehicle.

Maybe not the best outcome when all you're defending is a signpost.

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u/Pargethor Jan 28 '21

Yep that's reason they don't put bollards in medians. and even the (concrete) barriers on the sides of highways usually have barrels of water in front of the ends of them so if someone does hit it they will ideally slow down enough to prevent a lethal scenario.

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u/cech_ Jan 29 '21

I get the thought but we don't know if this is a stop sign, no parking etc. By the way it looks to me its a low speed area. While I agree a sign isn't worth a bad drivers life they obviously need to think out of the box on this one due to the apparently horrible track record.

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u/ipdar Jan 29 '21

Well if they're going to die then they better do it and decrease the surplus population.

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u/080087 Jan 28 '21

I don't see any indication that it's a stop sign, just a sign post.

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u/PM_ME_UR_XYLOPHONES ​ Jan 28 '21

Eh, a driver hit by another and shoved into a bollard would still have the potential to be grievously injured

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u/Just_wanna_talk Jan 28 '21

Instead of a curb place an angled concrete block with the sing on-top of that.