Comments on: Attention Please

By: njkayaker

njkayaker — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:45:35 +0000

“Fixed link:”

Thanks. A fair number of the photos show traffic cones on statues. I suspect that that is evidence of pranks rather than of excessive signage.

By: Jim M

Jim M — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:14:19 +0000

Fixed link:

http://www.attention-please.co.uk/about.html

By: Brian Ogilvie

Brian Ogilvie — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:32:17 +0000

Let me give you a good counterexample: the Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock) in Lysefjorden, near Stavanger, in Norway. The rock is poised 603 meters (nearly 2000 feet) above the fjord, and the top is more or less flat. It gets 100,000 visitors a year. There are a couple of rope and chain guardrails on a tricky passage to the rock, but none on the rock itself. Nonetheless, no one has ever accidentally fallen off. Why? My guess is that the absence of guardrails makes people act prudently, even though some get a lot closer to the edge than I’d be comfortable doing.

Here’s a photo: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=41886794&id=9128195

But a Google search for Preikestolen will turn up some more impressive ones.

By: njkayaker

njkayaker — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:26:36 +0000

OK, they aren’t requesting that signs/handrails be put up. (Ignore the previous comment!)

By: njkayaker

njkayaker — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:22:43 +0000

The WSJ opinion page requesting “nanny state” changes? That’s an example of irony, isn’t it? One wonders what their opinions would be regarding regulation of the financial industry.