New Cook speed limit farce!!

ant said :

Kods said :

The ones who have to tell the world that they don’t have any interest in a topic, Kods? Yes, I guess they do.

They are the ones I ment…. the rest of us are doing busy work of corse… 😛

Kods said :

I guess some people have too much time on their hands??

The ones who have to tell the world that they don’t have any interest in a topic, Kods? Yes, I guess they do.

ant said :

I guess there’s two kinds of reader here.

The first (and thankfully more numerous) sort sees a topic of no interest to them, and moves on to the next one without comment.

The second sort feels the need to react to a topic that doesn’t interest them, by declaring to the world that the topic is of no interest to them and is therefore, by definition, crap.

I guess some people have too much time on their hands??

I guess there’s two kinds of reader here.

The first (and thankfully more numerous) sort sees a topic of no interest to them, and moves on to the next one without comment.

The second sort feels the need to react to a topic that doesn’t interest them, by declaring to the world that the topic is of no interest to them and is therefore, by definition, crap.

I am fairly sure I have seen someone go 9 along that road when the sign still said 60 😛

Don’t encourage me!

*lol*

+1 Granny 🙂

Ditto. It would be a sad and boring forum if only serious and political topics were posted.

Especially, being Canberra, the political topics are lame, and the serious ones often not that serious.

screaming banshee said :

Love your work Granny

definitely top notch.

Love your work Granny

ant said :

It’s great when there’s a topic with people responding and posting things, and someone wanders in and complains that it’s a crappy thread. I wonder what the thought process is with that?

Delusions of adequacy.

I hope this kind of stupid mud-throwing doesn’t stop people from putting up amusing things like this.

Ditto. It would be a sad and boring forum if only serious and political topics were posted.

Wild Black Bart: You! Stranger! What’s these here parts?
Stranger: This here’s the Orstralian Capital Territ’ry and that thar saloon is the Rioty Actors’ Hotel.
Wild Black Bart:

*BLAM!*

Wrong answer. Think I’ll mosey on in and get myself a looksee and some moonshine ….

[A few seconds later]

Line ’em up, barkeep.

Barkeep: Yessir.
Wild Black Bart: I reckon I don’t like me this saloon. Them threads is too yeller. I don’t like me no yeller threads.
Barkeep: Yessir.
Wild Black Bart:

*BLAM!*

Wrong answer. That’ll larn yer. Reckon I need to have me a word with the law. Who’re you?
Yeller Rose: Folks round here call me the Yeller Rose of Canberry, but my friends call me Rose.
Wild Black Bart: I want me a word with the Sheriff. Reckon I don’t like them thar threads.
Yeller Rose: You’d be wanting Johnny the Kid. Ain’t noone out-guns Johnny.
Wild Black Bart:

*BLAM!*

Wrong answer. Reckon I don’t like me no yeller. ‘Sides I don’t like me no wimmin nohow.

[Saloon doors burst open]

Who’re you?
Johnny the Kid: They call me the Kid. The game’s over Wild Black Bart. Throw down yer pistols an’ reach fer the sky!
Wild Black Bart: I mean to get me rid of them threads, Kid. You’d better run fer yer life. If yer lucky I’ll shoot yer clean between the eyeballs.

*BLAM!* *BLAM!* *BLAM!* *BLAM!*

Johnny the Kid:

[Blowing on gun]

Nope. Reckon them thar threads stay.

Grunge_hippy, I have also seen the good ol’ stop sign ‘tagged’ by stop rushing and stop worrying. All good advice I think. Stop…..hammer time should be law though. If only I were wearing parachute pants at that first time I saw it, I could give the sign the “walking on the spot” respect it deserves.

Speed limits are however, set for a good reason, and for a Government to decree a 9 kph limit, well it must have the communities best interest in mind. Don’t muck with it!!!

It’s great when there’s a topic with people responding and posting things, and someone wanders in and complains that it’s a crappy thread. I wonder what the thought process is with that?

I hope this kind of stupid mud-throwing doesn’t stop people from putting up amusing things like this.

it’s much easier to remember the limit when it’s a multiple of 5km/hr. But, shaving off 1km/hr from 10km/hr on this road will halve the road toll.

i for one get a giggle out of the street sign for “Hussey Cove” in Bonython.

(Yes, its an actual street, and the sign has been stolen so often i think they resorted to welding it onto the pole)

i find the stop signs where someone has put ‘hammer time’ after it more amusing.

ikarus said :

G-Fresh said :

lame thread please delete

+1.. please….

If it really distresses these posters so much, please feel free to delete the thread Johnboy.

Honestly, some people….

ikarus said :

G-Fresh said :

lame thread please delete

+1.. please….

ooh, and those two comments added much, should they be deleted too?

Come on, its funny and harmless.

screaming banshee said :

1. Breathe in
2. Breathe out
3. Breathe in
4. [sb rubs temples and sighs] The sign you see hanging upside down was attached upright to the top bracket until such time as the bolt has been removed from/failed/fell out of the top bracket, thus leaving the sign to hang upside down from its remaining bolt.
5. Breathe out

Hahahaha, thankyou Banshee. I was wondering how far this thread would get before somebody actually explained what has clearly happened here rather than suggesting that the guys who installed it hung it upside down.

G-Fresh said :

lame thread please delete

+1.. please….

More fiction from mono. How quaint!

TP 3000 said :

screaming banshee said :

TP 3000 said :

I do wonder how hard is it to put a sign up the right way?

TP there is quite clearly a bracket at the top of the picture to which the sign clearly was previously attached.

Which means that all they would have to do, would be the copy what was done with the previous sign.

1. Breathe in
2. Breathe out
3. Breathe in
4. [sb rubs temples and sighs] The sign you see hanging upside down was attached upright to the top bracket until such time as the bolt has been removed from/failed/fell out of the top bracket, thus leaving the sign to hang upside down from its remaining bolt.
5. Breathe out

p1 said :

I suspect that this may be the result of someone attempting to remove said sign, and for some reason stopping after only one bolt.

Possibly because they find 9km/h signs amusing like the rest of us.

That seems like some pretty good guesses to me p1 and since there is evidence shown in the picture it is a better guess than most.

A lot better than the scenario I made up.

But since some on this post are taking a cross post perspective there are any number of possible reasons the sign is like that.

One extremely unlikely one involves two trained sign installers. Along comes a member of the public who tries to tell them how to do their job. They would prefer to take no notice but Senior Sign Installer O Y has taken them to task over a previous incident and told them that they are there to serve the public and to show deference regardless of how much any idiot non sign installing member of the public gets in their way. So they leave him to finish the job with this result.

bkingartoad, the ultra-short bike lanes have been commented on here before, and someone actually went and found the answer – they’re putting them down as and when the road is re-marked for other reasons, rather than going around remarking roads that don’t need it just to add the bike lane. So that means that there will be these little part-bike-lanes around for a while, until all the line markings have been done and they get joined up.

To the rest of you, is it really not obvious that they sign has been turned around as a prank?

I suspect that this may be the result of someone attempting to remove said sign, and for some reason stopping after only one bolt.

Possibly because they find 9km/h signs amusing like the rest of us.

Yes, but they’ve given us all so much more pleasure by getting it wrong! Well done, those sign putter-uppers!

screaming banshee said :

TP 3000 said :

I do wonder how hard is it to put a sign up the right way?

TP there is quite clearly a bracket at the top of the picture to which the sign clearly was previously attached.

Which means that all they would have to do, would be the copy what was done with the previous sign.

TP 3000 said :

I do wonder how hard is it to put a sign up the right way?

TP there is quite clearly a bracket at the top of the picture to which the sign clearly was previously attached.

Bugger……………

Perhaps it’s only an aspirational target?

Very Busy said :

I’ve heard that this is what the road safety round table forum came up with earlier this month. Part of the zero deaths target?

It’s an aspirational speed limit.

Good catch, PB! And thanks for sharing it, gave quite a few of us a good chuckle from the looks of it.

TP 3000 said :

I do wonder how hard is it to put a sign up the right way?

Given that the post is not vertical and the sign is straight one of the installers probaby stood back saying ” Up on the left, more, more, perfect.”

Or had an inverted sense of humour.

Search on YouTube for the Chaser harassing people who do more than the posted 5 / 10 kmh limits in undercover car parks.

lame thread please delete

astrojax said :

did these guys also lose the ‘a’ in dickson? as there is no evidence here they didn’t, it must be so…

As long as your guess is better than most, astro, as I’m certain it is!

*lol*

I do wonder how hard is it to put a sign up the right way? I remember a few months back somewhere in Torrens/Pearce area, there was a Give Way sign that was upside down.

But we all better watch out of next time the Tuggeranong Parkway may have a changed speed limit of 001. So imagine someone doing 100k’s past one of the speed cameras…..

I reckon you could get booked on the old skateboard doing faster than that. Next up a speed camera.

Really hard to do down that hill on lyttleton cres. Its very easy to pick up speed and go over 9kph.

Signage is big business in the ACT. And road line markings.

As you travel west down Newcastle street in Fyshwick, past the Canberra Times building and turn left into Ipswich street there has been some road re-surfacing. As part of the contract thay appear to have been compelled to include a bike lane.

As you turn left the lane starts with the obligatory sign on the lightpole and the lane starts. Then another sign on the next lightpole. Until the next lightpole where the sign advises that the bike lane ends as the white line curves into the gutter, not connecting with anything like a footpath. It just stops.

So we’ve got signage and paint for a bike lane that starts from nowhere, goes less than 100m and finishes nowhere but needs three signs.

Great work if you can get it. Thanks mayor.

I better not jog in the area, or i may get booked!

I’ve heard that this is what the road safety round table forum came up with earlier this month. Part of the zero deaths target?

did these guys also lose the ‘a’ in dickson? as there is no evidence here they didn’t, it must be so…

The trick is in not allowing the speedo to creep up to 10 … it’s so easily done!

Oh, that has given me a much-needed laugh!! Precious!

: D

Good thing you are so law-abiding, PB!