Two antiwar signs posted on a Route 128 overpass in Weston lasted no more than 12 hours before being removed
Posted on 07/25/2006 11:17:01 AM PDT by raccoonradio
"Highway blogs" come, go quickly
It takes only a bedsheet and 18-gauge wire for Bruce Macdonald to stir road rage in some motorists.
For eight months the Cambridge lawyer has been stringing homemade banners from highway overpasses, including those crossing Interstate 93 and Route 128. His neatly painted messages usually take short jabs at the Bush administration or the war in Iraq.
Like noxious fumes and traffic snarls, a well-placed road sign can't be ignored by a driver, he said. Tens of thousands of cars can stream beneath an ``Impeach" or ``U.S. Out of Iraq" banner before it is ripped down, usually by a passerby or road crew. ``If they stay up a day they're doing well," Macdonald said. ``Some people get upset ."
Macdonald, 59, is one of an increasing number of ``highway bloggers" -- loosely connected activists who favor bridges over websites as posting places for their antiwar slogans. They say it is an easy, inexpensive way to reach large numbers of people, especially those who may not be receptive to their opinions.
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Macdonald said he once draped two banners from an overpass: ``Honor the Warrior" and ``Condemn the War." After he left, someone played road editor, leaving only the first one intact. Macdonald was not pleased when he came upon the truncated message.
``I had steam coming out of my ears," he said.
Now a poster or a sign is a "highway blog"?
Why aren't they being arrested for putting up distractions?
Illegal in CA - can't even put up good signs or things that support the USA or the troops.
CHP considers it a traffic hazard! People read the sign instead of looking at the road ahead of them.
And this is one of the reasons why God made paintball guns and ammo.
Then there are roadside shrines, put up to commemorate a loved one who was killed on a highway, at the exact spot where it happened. Teddy bears, Chevrolet emblems, signs...there's a place for these things: a cemetary. (While such things can also be seen as cautionary symbols: watch your driving,
or this could be your fate, they also can be distracting.
One hopes that the mourners putting up a roadside shrine
don't get run over themselves in the process.)
Uh Oh, blog-gate!
Heck, you can't even put flight arrival/departure gates anymore on signs in airports for drivers to look at.
They're doing this on public property. Is it OK for me to put up a huge banner saying "Support the troops, the war, and
our President" on a school or city hall? How long would that stay up?
BTW, why isn't this bozo being fined?
"CHP considers it a traffic hazard! People read the sign instead of looking at the road ahead of them."
They also might dial the wrong number on their cellphones.
>>traffic snarls
Think there are enough of those in the Boston area? Imagine being stuck in the same spot for 20 minutes in a jam (if not much longer)...and you're staring straight at a "Bush is
Hitler" sign on the overpass...
"An "abortion kills" sign would be worth the effort."
Nothing stopping you from making that effort.
BWAAHAAHAAHAAA!!!!!
All the more reason for us to put up "Bush is Hilter" signs to make the moonbats look like retards.
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