Roadworks

[Bill Blackhurst]

I was working at a GMC truck dealership parts department years ago, & one day a tow truck operator came in to purchase a LT front bumper turn signal lamp on an '90 something GMC S10 compact pickup truck. He seemed a little irritated, & when I asked if everything was OK, he told me his story. It seemed he was called to assist a driver of one of those small pickup trucks who was stranded on a speed bump in a parking lot, due to having a lowering kit with ground effects on it! The small pickup was hung on the speed bump & the driver refused to let any damage happen to his customization work. The tow truck operator picked the entire front of the small pick up from the trap & freed it, but as he was releasing his straps, one of the metal hooks swung into the lamp cracking it the owner said !  Go figure !

[flatcat]

A few years ago, it was summer and we were all sitting in the local Pub garden, and there was a coned off parking space close in front of us, and this woman, obviously not noticing, as they were small cones, drove into the space and got the cone wedged under her front bumper. She then reversed, wondering what she had hit, and ripped off her whole bumper!

And worse for her was that there was a whole load of us watching!

[flatcat]

Bill, I bet you don't have ones like this:

[Gustavo]

Nice ... Not my field, but good to see something different than what I work (pirates, Middle-Age, Roman "fantasy"), and different than Romans, Vitcorian & Fire Brigade, which are the most commonly seen here ... (I seldom visit the trains board, I have to admit ... But don't see much there, in the Recent Posts board either ...)

Thanks!
 

[flatcat]

Mum just wanted me to point out that we don't live in a shed - that is just our Playmobil/Gym/Craft annex

[Wolf Knight]

Damo this is an exellent photostory yet again!!! Thank you for sharing!!!! And glad to know of the different cones!!!
My best friend has a habbit of collecting all te cones he knocks off with his car...he has a collection of about 30 cones...it keeps reminding him that he has to be more carefull with his driving!!! 
I wander what the city service will do if they found out....

[flatcat]

Damo this is an exellent photostory yet again!!! Thank you for sharing!!!! And glad to know of the different cones!!!
My best friend has a habbit of collecting all te cones he knocks off with his car...he has a collection of about 30 cones...it keeps reminding him that he has to be more carefull with his driving!!! 
I wander what the city service will do if they found out....

Thanks Panos!

I'm sure that the city service would be grateful for taking them away - you can't drive anywhere here in the UK without seeing one left at the side of the road

And the most commom site is roadworks set up with traffic lights and nobody actually working - one near us once went for about a week with nobody there at all

[Wolf Knight]

Thanks Panos!

I'm sure that the city service would be grateful for taking them away - you can't drive anywhere here in the UK without seeing one left at the side of the road

And the most commom site is roadworks set up with traffic lights and nobody actually working - one near us once went for about a week with nobody there at all

Strange!!! I remember when I was studying at Kent all roads to London, and various roads within Kent county, always had a road construction going on...very annoiying indeed... But i do recall always people working!!!

[skypurr]

I wish I'd had my camera with me a couple of weeks ago. 
Some workmen were doing some work up the lane from here and all the cows in the field had gathered by the fence watching them work! 

Elaine

[Richard]

Thanks, Damo!

I really like your construction projects!

Your photography is excellent!

And, your stories are always fun and very entertaining.

Thanks again and all the best,
Richard