{"id":37742,"date":"2013-09-27T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37742"},"modified":"2013-09-27T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T20:26:40","slug":"yer-friday-afternoon-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37742","title":{"rendered":"Yer Friday Afternoon Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as if some local officials in western Pennsylvania weren&#8217;t very observant when they approved the final design for a highway safety project.\u00a0 Either that, or they had a &#8220;wicked bad&#8221; sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Township recently <a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburgh.cbslocal.com\/2013\/09\/26\/scott-township-concrete-posts-the-talk-of-the-town\/\">had some traffic barriers installed<\/a>.\u00a0 They&#8217;re reinforced concrete posts, called bollards.\u00a0 They&#8217;re designed to serve as safety barriers.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say the design of the bollards is, um, somewhat &#8220;open to interpretation.&#8221; And not everybody is pleased by the design chosen.<\/p>\n<p>Photo below the break.\u00a0 (Probably safe for work, but use care around children and youths &#8211; especially if you laugh easily &#8211; to avoid answering potentially embarrassing questions.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\" http:\/\/cbspittsburgh.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/scotttownship.jpg\" \/><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I think I can see why someone might interpret those a bit differently than intended.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">even<\/span> want to think about some of the graffiti that&#8217;s going to end up painted on them.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n<p>The pity is that a design with a flat or conical top would have worked just as well &#8211; and would have avoided controversy. C&#8217;mon, folks: stop and think a little before signing on the dotted line when you spend public funds.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, maybe this was intentional.\u00a0 It&#8217;s possible those who approved the design were TAH readers &#8211; and decided that the folks who&#8217;ve been busted here at TAH needed a monument.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as if some local officials in western Pennsylvania weren&#8217;t very observant when they approved &hellip; <a title=\"Yer Friday Afternoon Funny\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37742\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yer Friday Afternoon Funny<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,177,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}