City Driving Can Be Dangerous

[Jim Koepke]

According to San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission, a lamp post that toppled over and nearly crushed a driver had been terminally compromised by a most deadly combination: human and dog urine.

http://sfist.com/2015/08/05/urine_trouble.php

Hamburg Germany has a solution to the problem that other cities are starting to adopt:

http://sfist.com/2015/07/24/testing_out_a_new_pee.php

jtk

[Mike Chance in Iowa]

I can see that happening to the pole. Many years ago I had a turf war going on between the coyotes and my dog. The object of the battle was my Jeep's wheels. Coyotes came in at night and nailed them while the dog hiked his leg during the day. It trashed the wheels.

Very cool solution Hamburg has come up with. The entertainment factor alone is great!

[Art Mann]

I am just very thankful that I don't live in a place where that sort of behavior is tolerated.

[Tom Stenzel]

I remember when living in Detroit a lamppost blew over in a high wind and demolished a parked car. This was on Warren Avenue (west side) back in the '80s. It happened several times.

The streetlamp poles of the day were sections of cast iron bolted together with long steel rods. Even if the posts were kept painted and looked OK, the steel rods inside still rusted out. Even the ones well above ground level. A friend of mine was in charge of the building maintenance for Detroit Parks and Recreation*, I got to see two of the lampposts that fell in Rouge Park.

Being constructed in the 1920's with no subsequent inspection had everything to do with those posts coming down.

Even with urine it would take decades of neglect to bring down a light.

-Tom

*That wasn't all good. I ended up donating time to fix heating systems in rec centers, power & plumbing problems in rest rooms. The one failure of mine (and still sticks in my craw) was that I never was able to figure out what was wrong with the Belle Isle Carillon. I hear it's now been redone.

[Justin Ludwig]

I am just very thankful that I don't live in a place where that sort of behavior is tolerated.

I love to pee outside. But I live on 20 acres in the middle of nowhere. I'm sure my behavior is abnormal for city folk... well, some of them.

[Rich Engelhardt]

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I am just very thankful that I don't live in a place where that sort of behavior is tolerated.





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