The first one was when a rock shot up from the embankment where men in lab suits were mowing the grass and chipped my windshield. They had put up obvious warning signs that read “MOWING” but honestly – what can you do about it? The second one was when a cow from the shantytown stepped in front of my car very suddenly. I don’t know why they allow cows to cross the highway. I imagine it went something like this:
MUNICIPALITY: “You can’t let your cows wander free and live in your houses. This is a residential area.”
SHANTYTOWN: “Why not?”
MUNICIPALITY: “Well, for one there is no grass here. It’s cruel.”
SHANTYTOWN: “Well, now that you cut it, yeah.”
MUNICIPALITY: “Well, we’re the municipality. We say you can’t keep them.”
SHANTYTOWN: “Yes we can. It’s erm...part of our culture.”
MUNICIPALITY: “Oh! Well, in that case, it should be fine then.”
SHANTYTOWN: “Also if you could not fill the potholes that would be great. Our ancestors live in them.”
Of course, they could have easily put up fences or restricted the grazing along the highway but instead they put up baffling signs:
They even have one of a cow leaping over a fence that I couldn’t find a picture of. But the cows in the shantytown are kinda rife with Anthrax and live on plastic bags and municipal grass and there aren’t fences anyway so no leaping is being done. I mean, they’re not lemmings.
Haha. That sounds like here too. Apart from our signs are yellow :D
ReplyDeleteWhy don't they get the cows to do the mowing? Wouldn't that be a win/win?
ReplyDeleteOh wow. Now that would be something.
ReplyDeleteWe have fox crossing, deer crossing and moose crossing signs here. I think the moose crossing ones are hilarious, because they show the moose charging across the road. Pretty sure every time I've seen a moose, it's been standing there totally chill, chomping on grass and wondering why the hell so many people are getting out of their cars and taking pictures.