And your telling this to someone that gets blitzed and goes out in a lighting storm and gets his ass zapped
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Duck
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I was inside a building. The building got zapped & the steel siding acted as a Faraday cage.And your telling this to someone that gets blitzed and goes out in a lighting storm and gets his ass zapped
I didn't get electrozapped.
I thought you were under a tree or was that another time
Electric Chicken
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Duck
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There are frequent, very bad accidents one mile from the Duck Pond at Rt 50 & County Line Rd.
It's at least 2 per month lately.
I don't get it.
Rt 50 is 4 lanes, undivided, 55 mph, no stop. County Line is a 2 lane & has stop signs.
I want to make plywood signs to put there or attach to the stop sign pole right below it that says "STOP CRASHING HERE YOU IDIOTS".
It couldn't be the fault of anyone on Rt 50 because they have the right of way. It's stupid people on County Line that pull out into traffic.
Maybe I'll paint it yellow and write "CAUTION - FREQUENT ACCIDENTS HERE - DON'T BE STUPID - LOOK BOTH WAYS"
I want to make it mildly offensive & sorta funny, but not something the highway department will remove.
I'm thinking next time I go into town for something I oughta stop at the fire department & ask them about it.
There are no trees blocking the view when you're stopped on county line facing west, and about a month ago I bush hogged all the tall grass blocking the view for people facing east.
I know it ain't my job but I just hate it when I look out the upstairs bedroom window and see a ton of flashing lights up there at that intersection because I know someone is seriously injured or dead.
It's at least 2 per month lately.
I don't get it.
Rt 50 is 4 lanes, undivided, 55 mph, no stop. County Line is a 2 lane & has stop signs.
I want to make plywood signs to put there or attach to the stop sign pole right below it that says "STOP CRASHING HERE YOU IDIOTS".
It couldn't be the fault of anyone on Rt 50 because they have the right of way. It's stupid people on County Line that pull out into traffic.
Maybe I'll paint it yellow and write "CAUTION - FREQUENT ACCIDENTS HERE - DON'T BE STUPID - LOOK BOTH WAYS"
I want to make it mildly offensive & sorta funny, but not something the highway department will remove.
I'm thinking next time I go into town for something I oughta stop at the fire department & ask them about it.
There are no trees blocking the view when you're stopped on county line facing west, and about a month ago I bush hogged all the tall grass blocking the view for people facing east.
I know it ain't my job but I just hate it when I look out the upstairs bedroom window and see a ton of flashing lights up there at that intersection because I know someone is seriously injured or dead.
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this reminds me a of a state highway i'd run from I-95 in DE, to I-95 in VA...Rte 50/301There are frequent, very bad accidents one mile from the Duck Pond at Rt 50 & County Line Rd.
It's at least 2 per month lately.
I don't get it.
Rt 50 is 4 lanes, undivided, 55 mph, no stop. County Line is a 2 lane & has stop signs.
I want to make plywood signs to put there or attach to the stop sign pole right below it that says "STOP CRASHING HERE YOU IDIOTS".
It couldn't be the fault of anyone on Rt 50 because they have the right of way. It's stupid people on County Line that pull out into traffic.
Maybe I'll paint it yellow and write "CAUTION - FREQUENT ACCIDENTS HERE - DON'T BE STUPID - LOOK BOTH WAYS"
I want to make it mildly offensive & sorta funny, but not something the highway department will remove.
I'm thinking next time I go into town for something I oughta stop at the fire department & ask them about it.
There are no trees blocking the view when you're stopped on county line facing west, and about a month ago I bush hogged all the tall grass blocking the view for people facing east.
I know it ain't my job but I just hate it when I look out the upstairs bedroom window and see a ton of flashing lights up there at that intersection because I know someone is seriously injured or dead.
flat road, intersections all along the way.
a curve once in a while, but not so much you lost sight of the road ahead.
Headlights ARE required on that road.
people do lose "sight" of oncoming traffic, in bright sun, even cloudy days
maybe "Headlights ON" required next xx miles.....signs...?????
people cannot judge distances as it is, the Headlights ON requirement, does help at least "spot" a vehicle approaching the intersections.
in all my years of traveling that road? dozens of fatal wrecks. the state finally came up with a brilliant idea with the headlights ON requirement....
they (the state, by imminent domain, took over parcels of land at all 4 corners of each intersection, and built an overpass, that then "slides vehicles onto the roadway" and avoids crashes.
Duck
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Rigjockey
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Do they have a sign on County line that says cross traffic does not stop? They should have that.There are frequent, very bad accidents one mile from the Duck Pond at Rt 50 & County Line Rd.
It's at least 2 per month lately.
I don't get it.
Rt 50 is 4 lanes, undivided, 55 mph, no stop. County Line is a 2 lane & has stop signs.
I want to make plywood signs to put there or attach to the stop sign pole right below it that says "STOP CRASHING HERE YOU IDIOTS".
It couldn't be the fault of anyone on Rt 50 because they have the right of way. It's stupid people on County Line that pull out into traffic.
Maybe I'll paint it yellow and write "CAUTION - FREQUENT ACCIDENTS HERE - DON'T BE STUPID - LOOK BOTH WAYS"
I want to make it mildly offensive & sorta funny, but not something the highway department will remove.
I'm thinking next time I go into town for something I oughta stop at the fire department & ask them about it.
There are no trees blocking the view when you're stopped on county line facing west, and about a month ago I bush hogged all the tall grass blocking the view for people facing east.
I know it ain't my job but I just hate it when I look out the upstairs bedroom window and see a ton of flashing lights up there at that intersection because I know someone is seriously injured or dead.
Not like anyone reads any signs besides the speed limit signs.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
Do cars down there have daytime running lights? They mandated it here probably 30 years ago. Running lights come on automatically they are the headlights but not as bright a setting of a nighttime headlight.
Electric Chicken
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Problem with DRLs is at night you have idiots driving with only those and their tail lights are off.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
True dat! We call them phantom cars. They are hard to see at night, Dim headlights, no amber lights on the front and zero lights at the back, unless they brake and that is only if all brake lights are working. Most times people too stupid to turn on their full lighting system at night also have 2 of three brake lights not working.
People like that need to be sent to a course taught by Ben Stein on how to turn on the full lighting system.
Duck
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That'd be my dad.
For some incredibly STUPID reason, the idiot GM engineers designed his '97 S-10 so the instrument lights are on all the time too. So he has no way of knowing that he ain't got tail lights except for the switch position.
Electric Chicken
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My 01 was like that too.That'd be my dad.
For some incredibly STUPID reason, the idiot GM engineers designed his '97 S-10 so the instrument lights are on all the time too. So he has no way of knowing that he ain't got tail lights except for the switch position.
Duck
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It was 2:AM, raining, and Sarah came in and woke me up, said someone is sitting on the front porch and the dog is growling. No idea why he wasn't barking.
I put on a rain coat & grabbed my 45, & went out the back door & around the house.
It was a skinny little teenage boy, curled up in the fetal position on the top step, the only spot that wasn't getting rained on, passed out.
I woke him up and he's incoherent for a minute, then he said he was spending the night at a friend's house in town (3 miles away) but his friend's dad kicked him out because they were drinking. So he was walking home, when it started raining. So he said he was going to wait out the rain but he fell asleep.
He has no phone, so he couldn't call anyone to come get him. Said he was 15 years old.
So I drove him home.
As soon as he told me where he lives, a farm 2-1/2 miles down the road, I knew this kid was in trouble. His dad and his grandpa are both ass holes.
So I killed the lights half a mile away, dropped him off at the end of the driveway and drove off in the same direction so I wouldn't light up the reverse lights. All the lights in the house were off.
I did a U-turn at the next intersection & when I went past on the way home, all of the lights were on.
That kid is in deep shit
I put on a rain coat & grabbed my 45, & went out the back door & around the house.
It was a skinny little teenage boy, curled up in the fetal position on the top step, the only spot that wasn't getting rained on, passed out.
I woke him up and he's incoherent for a minute, then he said he was spending the night at a friend's house in town (3 miles away) but his friend's dad kicked him out because they were drinking. So he was walking home, when it started raining. So he said he was going to wait out the rain but he fell asleep.
He has no phone, so he couldn't call anyone to come get him. Said he was 15 years old.
So I drove him home.
As soon as he told me where he lives, a farm 2-1/2 miles down the road, I knew this kid was in trouble. His dad and his grandpa are both ass holes.
So I killed the lights half a mile away, dropped him off at the end of the driveway and drove off in the same direction so I wouldn't light up the reverse lights. All the lights in the house were off.
I did a U-turn at the next intersection & when I went past on the way home, all of the lights were on.
That kid is in deep shit
389 Hood
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To answer the question, no, it is not mandated in the US. Many have it, but there is no law that I know of mandating it.
My 2011 F150 is like that. The dash is lit up all the time. Same with the wife's 2018 Explorer. She just leaves her lights set on automatic.That'd be my dad.
For some incredibly STUPID reason, the idiot GM engineers designed his '97 S-10 so the instrument lights are on all the time too. So he has no way of knowing that he ain't got tail lights except for the switch position.
Electric Chicken
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I yanked the DRL relay from my Mack so that I'd have to turn the lights on manually to see.
quillcom
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Yep, we have DRM that started on 95' but they are not mandated to be on down here.
Some parts of California will have stretches of road where you are required to run them. Not sure if any other state does that.
Duck
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I've only seen it required in tunnels here.
Hillbilly Canuck
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Every time I see one of those I says there's fuckin old candlesticks again. (Because that's what they're trying to see with)
It's really good when you see one on the highway out in the middle of nowhere. How do you NOT KNOW!?!
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