The three-story-tall lamp post at Pine and Taylor streets snapped around 6:30 Monday and landed on a nearby car, almost crushing the driver. No one was injured.Use a fire hydrant... like everybody else ;-) video at the link
A perfect storm of conditions rusted out the base of the pole, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission officials say, and caused it to fall. At the time, the lamp post, which was already old, was damaged by urine and weighed down by an oversized banner.
“We believe there was some contribution of dog or human urine on the base of the pole,” PUC spokesman Tyrone Jue said. “It has actually been an issue for us in the past. We encourage people and dogs alike to do their business in other places, like a proper restroom or one of our fire hydrants, which are stronger and made out of cast iron.”
Urine accelerates the corrosion of the metal base of street poles, he said.
Via Ricochet
7 comments:
"A perfect storm of conditions rusted out the base of the pole..."
Yes, yes I know. It's quite impressive, and thank you for noticing. I also do personalized calligraphy in the snow - seasonal availability.
This is what leftism does. It corrodes everything until it kills.
50 years ago, SF was the Conservative city in CA.
Then they let in the hippies.
The next Detroit won't be LA.
San Fran is just being pissed away.
At some point in the near future the entire city will collapse in on itself from all the urine.
Edutch-as far as SF being a conservative city 50 years ago, the same could be said of almost every city in the US at that time. What has never changed about SF is the unusually high levels of corruption and cronyism that rule the place. Probably due to its roots as a gold rush port. The government started thinking up redistribution schemes earlier than most. It was like that when it was conservative and it's like that now. The hippies just increased the urine quantities.
OMG! Look what they did to Union Square!
Thanks, Obama's EPA!
Dang hippies.
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