Monday, November 19, 2012

Your tax dollars at work, Quebecers.

Unfortunately, there are more effective ways to throw them away than this, even if it's much flashier. The story: a curve on route 251 in Cookshire-Eaton, Quebec was deemed unsafe, and redone in the fashion you're seeing right now. With the utility pole smack in the middle. And it was BUILT TO COMPLETION that way. No one thought of calling their superior and saying, dude, we're about to build a road that goes right through a utility pole. Maybe this is why they're taking a decade to rebuild part of a road that was swallowed by an abandoned asbestos mine - any less and the damn thing would end up climbing the mine dumps.

12 comments:

  1. I see that picture, and the only thing I can say is... what?

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  2. I can't find enough facepalm images on the internet to express how much of a fail this is.

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  3. This is the kind of thing I would expect to find on Failblog...

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  4. I'm torn. On the one hand, that's an inexcusable level of incompetence, and incredibly dangerous. On the other hand, that picture made me laugh like hell.

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  5. Oh, good. For a second there, I thought America was hogging all the dumbasses.

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  6. So they took a dangerous looking road, and they thought 'Hmm, how can we fix this road... I know, let's just put the road straight through a pole and render that side of the road useless!'.

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  7. I live in California, and our roads are pretty bad, but I don't think we've had anything to this extent in recent memory. How does that even happen.

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  8. New update. They actually did something about it. They sawed off the pole. Problem solved, am I right ? XD
    (I know it really isn't, but I just love that kind of logic)

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    1. Apparently Pauline Marois herself called the Hydro-Québec higher-ups and told them to do something about it (they were initially supposed to go move the pole in only two weeks). I still despise her, but I have to give her credit for getting her hands dirty in such a bullshit scenario.

      The sad thing is, though, it had to be on TV in order for anything to be done. It's always what happens, and that sucks.

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    2. They should have hung a sign on it written in English. Would've been taken down in 20 minutes.

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    3. You sir, deserve a medal... or maybe a cookie, because I don't have any medal. Sorry.

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