[PRCo] Re: Speed Bumps

[John F Bromley]

Yeah, but now they're installing them on streets, every 200 feet!  Pain in
the (your epithet here).  We can kill this now - let's get back on topic
(who said that?? oh, it was me for once!)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Rathke" <brathke at mediaone.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 7:48 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Speed Bumps


> I'm still trying to figure a way to get this on-topic, but....Ontario
didn't
> start expanding use of speed bumps yesterday.  I worked in southern
Ontario
> (Toronto and St. Thomas) in 1969-70, and the company that I worked for (a
large
> international corporation), installed speed bumps in their headquarters
parking
> lot.  The employees hated the bumps, but salesmen were able to get back at
the
> company - they'd drive their company-owned cars over the bumps at 35mph. I
> remember even the sales manager's epithet when he roared over a bump -
"let the
> %$#@ president (of the company) pay for repairing this car."
>
> Bob 6/11/01
>
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> John F Bromley wrote:
>
> > If the city could figure out how to speed bump a car line I'll bet
they'd do
> > it.  The idiots hate anything you can't peddle.  Oh what fun while the
fire
> > trucks and ambulances on their way to alarms slow down for every
&$^%^*&&&**
> > hump.
>
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