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Road Swill

Warning: Pub crawl ahead.

Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day: Drunken pedestrian warning signs.

Alan of the Melbourne Urbanist sends along this link to the original Daily Telegraph dispatch; the sign is in Romania, but was apparently inspired by an unnamed town in Germany.

Interesting idea, though one wonders if the sign distracts drivers from the actual presence of sloshed revelers in the road; it also presume sobriety and attention on the part of the drivers themselves. “We must warn drivers that sometimes people who have little control over their actions can suddenly appear in the road,” the town’s mayor said. It’s just as appropriate to change the word ‘drivers’ to ‘pedestrians,’ to my mind.

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2 Responses to “Road Swill”

  1. aaron Says:
    March 16th, 2010 at 9:28 am

    You forgot to link freakonomics on the dangers of drunken walking.

  2. wes kirkman Says:
    March 16th, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    So does that mean drunken pedestrians have the right-of-way?

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