yeah, but you're not George Michael.....

Remember this thread? I loved this thread.

Just saw this thread for the first time. Those are bollards; they're a security device. All the military bases I've lived on have them; they (obviously) prevent vehicles from entering or exiting. There's a damn good reason they don't have a safety feature... if you have to throw the bollards, something SERIOUS is going on and you don't want to make the mistake of letting a terrorist in... or letting a terrorist escape! Just didn't realize they had them in Europe too? No idea what the reason is there...

Holy cow, Treasenuak, don't pick the scab off this one.

This is one of the all time great pissing matches in the history of teh cellar.

whoops. That's what I get for not reading through the hundred-and-a-half previous posts.... -grimaces-

I just read it all and its friggin hilarious!

I still don't get Flint's point.

:stickpoke

He had a point? (piling on)









get it piling?

Classic, what did you decide?

This thread was awesome.

Yeah, I just read it and got all worked up again.

I can understand the desire to exact a pound of flesh from rule breakers, but what about people who are simply confused? Hasn't anyone here been confused by road signs in a strange city and broken the law because they didn't understand?

A confused/lost/overwhelmed driver sees a street they want to go down. They see a bus going down the street. There are cars parked along the street. So they drive down the street and smash into a hidden rising bollard, getting a concussion.

Nobody who knows the system would try to cheat it. How many people have you ever witnessed trying to drive out of a parking garage, for example, by tailgating the paying customer in front of them? It simply doesn't happen. People don't want to risk having their car damaged by the gate coming down. They know the system and don't try to cheat it, because they understand.

These people colliding with the bollards don't know the system. They are confused. Having been confused myself in the past when driving in a foreign city, I sympathize with them.

About what? Wow - I just saw this from Flint's reference

Apparently, this is not always the case. glatt has had direct experience with cars driving on sidewalks

So why isn't he up in arms, ready to smash these cars with invisible battering rams, giving whiplash to innocent toddlers in car seats?

yeah, I started to re read it, but by page 5, I was all fagged out from your shenanigans, and had to skip to the end.