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- From: wright@duca.hi.com (David Wright)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Misc Traffic Rules
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:39:55 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.082410.28167@cunews.carleton.ca> <1993Jan26.165300.18344@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> <C1HDv3.4L7@coral.cs.unm.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan26.165300.18344@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> maven@hercules.lerc.nasa.gov writes:
- >In the Boston area I have come across FLASHING green lights.
- >I asked a policeman what it meant (I know what flashing yellow
- >and red lights mean). He had no idea. Does anyone else out there
- >know for real what they mean?
-
- Well, for all the instances of it I've seen, it means that the traffic
- light is used by a nearby fire station, and when the fire engines are
- on their way out, it'll go from green to red. Why they have it blink
- is unknown to me, unless it's to show that it's not burned out.
-
- Oh, and the item about Boston driving that was posted last week is
- from "Wild in the Streets: The Boston Driver's Handbook," and I think
- it would be nice if the jerkoff who'd posted it had said so,
- particularly since it's copyrighted.
-
- OBJ:
-
- If you die while you're on hold, does the little blinking light at the
- other end go out? -- George Carlin
-
- -- David Wright, Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc. Waltham, MA
- wright@hicomb.hi.com ** my opinion, not necessarily Hitachi's **
-