Alert Level: Frog Choker
I’m upgrading the weather alert to ‘Frog Choker’ or ‘Orange’ (for the goo you will soon be slinging all over your cars, trucks and SUVs).
Tropical Storm Arlene looks primed to dump and inch or two of liquid sunshine all over our weekend, but for those who enjoy slogging in the mud, this is a sport! Lee Road 213 is in excellent shape for this pastime as the neighboring construction has widened the drive surface and left it covered in a dusting of fine silt. One or two runs down through this bog course will almost guarantee that no one within eyeshot will have the slightest idea to the color or make of your vehicle. Now, would you believe that some folks would actually pay for this? Okay, some of you might but seriously, there are some places so deprived of muddy roads that they actually spend good money on cans of mud to spray on their cars and off-road type vehicles… read on:
From Wired News
Imagine that. Maybe we could rent out some of our public roads to these folks? What a great idea for tourism! Lee County alone seems content enough to let a number of our roads disintegrate with only a passing patch truck making any attempt to hold them all together. Why even spend that effort when they could let them all go back to pasture and charge a fee to those who want to drive on them?
Anyway, the folks over in England also have another reason for wanting to muddy their cars… traffic tickets…
Speed cameras? Oh geez, don’t give our own elected officials any ideas, please! Better end this here and move on…
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Over at Jo’s Café…
This morning’s Specials of the Day include:
Jo is a local blogger with a great assortment of daily news and musings. Be sure to drop in and say hello!
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The Redneckin Weather Station
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WTVM Skycam Shot of the Day
Tropical Storm Arlene looks primed to dump and inch or two of liquid sunshine all over our weekend, but for those who enjoy slogging in the mud, this is a sport! Lee Road 213 is in excellent shape for this pastime as the neighboring construction has widened the drive surface and left it covered in a dusting of fine silt. One or two runs down through this bog course will almost guarantee that no one within eyeshot will have the slightest idea to the color or make of your vehicle. Now, would you believe that some folks would actually pay for this? Okay, some of you might but seriously, there are some places so deprived of muddy roads that they actually spend good money on cans of mud to spray on their cars and off-road type vehicles… read on:
From Wired News
Targeting self-conscious 4x4 owners whose rugged vehicles
seldom see obstacles bigger than a speed bump, the enterprising British e-tailer
behind Sprayonmud sells the scent of the countryside in a squirt bottle.
For 8 pounds (about $14.50), buyers get 0.75 liters (.85 quarts) of
genuine filthy water, bottled from hills near the company's premises on the
rural England-Wales border. The aim, says the website, is "to give your
neighbors the impression you've just come back from a day's shooting or fishing
-- anything but driving around town all day or visiting the retail park."
Imagine that. Maybe we could rent out some of our public roads to these folks? What a great idea for tourism! Lee County alone seems content enough to let a number of our roads disintegrate with only a passing patch truck making any attempt to hold them all together. Why even spend that effort when they could let them all go back to pasture and charge a fee to those who want to drive on them?
Anyway, the folks over in England also have another reason for wanting to muddy their cars… traffic tickets…
But, while the site promises SUV owners a route around social stigma flung by a growing anti-4x4 lobby, motorists of other stripes are thought to use the same technique to freely flout speed limits.
Tipsters in motoring forums advise canny drivers they can smear mud over their license plate to avoid detection by police speed cameras, which photograph plates' registration details to ID lawbreakers using a national vehicle database. A few squirts of dirt, and snapped speeders would become as good as invisible.
Speed cameras? Oh geez, don’t give our own elected officials any ideas, please! Better end this here and move on…
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Over at Jo’s Café…
This morning’s Specials of the Day include:
American Housewife has “Around the Reader” up — if you are stuck inside today…
Babe Ruth’s contract goes for $996,000
The Reports out of Aruba are getting sadder and sadder. I do not personally believe this gal is with this world anymore, but has gone on to her maker. Please, let us all remember her family this day, and pray for them and the people trying to help.
Jo is a local blogger with a great assortment of daily news and musings. Be sure to drop in and say hello!
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The Redneckin Weather Station
Chuck has built a dandy set of weather links and information reports regarding Miss Arlene for Phenix City and the area.
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WTVM Skycam Shot of the Day
posted by Redoubt at 5:27 AM
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