On my way to work, I pass through a school zone. At many of the stoplights, they have crossing guards. They have the bright orange vest and stop signs as expected, but they also have crossing guard cars. They look like regular police cars in every way except it says “Crossing Guard” is big words on the side so no one would mistakenly use it for anything else.
Why is my tax money paying for this? Are there crossing emergencies that need require one a special car with lights and a siren to speed to the scene and help children across a crosswalk?
And who pushes dump trucks?
Apparently there was some dump truck pushing epidemic some time ago. Because of all the construction going on (stupid Bush economy), I get stuck behind dump truck a lot, and most of them have big letters on the back saying “Do Not Push.” Previously, it would never have occurred to me to push a dump truck, but, if I happen to find myself standing next to one some day, I don’t think I’ll be able to resist.
What happens if you push them? Will I die? I might not push them if they said, “Do Not Push… Or You’ll Die,” but, as is, the dump trucks just appear overly sensitive.
First…not sure why, I’m first, but I am…
It’s obvious, Frank. Crossing guards are pushing dump trucks around. That’s why they have the lights and sirens, so the dump trucks know they’re coming and the drivers can scurry to safety.
It seems that Florida dump trucks ARE overly sensitive. Or fragile. In Texas, we have elaborate signs on our dump trucks IMPLORING people to push, pull or otherwise show affection for heavy machinery. People hug the dump trucks in Houston.
It’s the light rail “killer toy train” that has the emotional problems.
I’ve been a crossing guard and I can’t think of a compelling reason why you’d need a crossing guard car. Whenever we were having problems with chronic school zone violators, we’d report them and the next day a real cop car (complete with real cop) would come and sit at our crosswalk during the crossing hour. People behaved a whole lot better after that.
The “Do not push” is there for women who are in labor in the car. Would not want to push and drop the baby on the floorboard!
The sign doesn’t refer to the truck. It refers to the teamster driving the truck.
As long as you are researching stenciled warnings in odd places, could you please find out who is putting the message “Do Not Hump” on railroad cars. Talk about a real Kill Joy.
LOL, i just realized that ads said “hug the dump”… Man, life is quiet in my world.. đŸ™‚
I used to drive these trucks, the reason it says don’t push on the back of them is this:
Lorrys often get stuck in landfill sites when it’s rained a lot, the ground becomes too boggy and the trucks become bogged down. they have to be towed out from the front by a heavy machine to prevent damage to chasis. If you push them from behind it breaks the tailboard and rear lights. also causes chasis damage.
Happy to solve your puzzle!
Hate to be a kill joy to all your satirical fun but… I’m going to!
Some dump trucks are pushed along by pavers while they dump their load of asphalt into the paver.
As far as “Do Not Hump”. A hump yard is basically a gravity sorting system for rail cars. Cars are slowly pushed over the top of the hill and then roll down onto the right track (hopefully not too fast) where they stop (often with a crash into the car in front of them). “Do Not Hump” cars are fragile.
The crossing guard cars are probably part of Clinton’s 100000 laptop “cops” on every corner (or whatever that program was).
I have a package of dental floss that came in a 4-pack. The packaging also contained 2 “Travel Size” disks of about 3 yards of floss.
TRAVEL SIZE!!!
The non-TRAVEL-SIZE is about 1 1/2″ x 1″ x 1/2″.
The TRAVEL SIZE is about the size of a nickel.
Stop and think about THAT for 30 seconds. There’s a guy at a dental floss manufacturing company that went into a board room and convinced a bunch of executives that the dental floss container was TOO MUCH OF A BURDEN TO BE LUGGING IT AROUND AIRPORTS!!!!
Now, cars for crossing guards doesn’t seem all that crazy in a world like that, does it?