Crooked road lines painted on California road baffle residents
By: Ben Hooper
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
July 26 (UPI) -- The mayor of a California city said an error by contractors was responsible for the zigzagging lane lanes on a city road that left some residents scratching their heads.
Hollister residents lit up social media with photos and videos showing the bizarre pattern of the lines painted recently on Ladd Lane. The yellow lines in the center of the road, and the white lines at the shoulders, were painted in a zigzag pattern instead of a typical straight line.
"I saw it later in the afternoon on my way home from work, and I thought, 'Woah, this is the strangest thing I've seen,'" Hollister Mayor Ignacio Velazquez told KSBW-TV.
Velazquez said the lines were supposed to be slightly curved, but the instructions were apparently misinterpreted by the contractors who painted the lines.
"Basically, it just comes down to the contractor. Somebody didn't read the plans correctly," Velazquez said. "It was not designed to look very odd."
Velazquez said the contractor will repaint the road at no additional cost to taxpayers.
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As a civil engineer, I wouldn’t be so fast to blame the contractor. I’ve worked with a lot of idiots on all sides of the process. Humans are just getting dumber. Idiocracy was a funny movie … until it wasn’t.
Lol, reminds me of the time a few years ago we contracted a company to repaint the helicopter landing pads at our base and the worker doing the last one was left unsupervised and decided to have a little fun and painted the inside of the circle as a big yellow happy face instead. When I walked out for a break the next day and saw it I couldn't help but laugh, though it took a while to get the contractor to come back and correct it.
I would want to keep the smiley face. Haha
I'm with you on that Ender, it made me grin every time I saw it and was a great conversation starter whenever someone came over to our building for a visit. But the Base Commander got a bug up his nose about it (ya know military professionalism and decorum and such) so it had to be corrected
Avro ender..some people just have no sense of humour...
Best one I have seen here when spraying the white lines on the road...they painted over a dead roo...and continued on..🦘🦘
Military commanders undergo surgery to remove their funny bone and have a stick inserted in their anus
Now that's just hilarious.
Could you imagine getting up, going to work...
Right? "WTF is going on here?! What stoned mofo laid this out?!"
Hmmm, they could have thought that they were painting lines for a circus.
You know how the word "Stop" is painted at the end of lanes in a parking lot? Our Walmart used to tell us to SOTP, instead.
Bet it could be a viable defence for a DUI charge.
It's all that legal weed in California