Re: Hedge


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Posted by Clint Dixon [173.245.55.156] on Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 15:35:02 :

In Reply to: Re: Hedge posted by Chewie [172.68.59.143] on Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 10:20:32 :

I believe that story is probably true.

Here is an aerial photo of a farmstead 4 miles from me. The house sits in direct line with the North/South county road that intersects the East/West State route at a "T". When I was a kid the county road was still a blacktop and there were no turning lanes on the state route. I remember at least 4 occasions when a drunk driver drove right through the intersection and into the living room of the house. There used to be a shallow grader ditch alongside of the state route that caused the cars to become airborne and clear the wraparound porch seen in this image. Thankfully no one was ever hurt in the house. Where the line of pine trees now end there used to be a large oak tree that the cars would just miss. The owners cut down the tree and left the trunk lying in the front yard as a guard rail. The state cited it as being "unsafe" to motorists about to drive into their living room. So they cut up the log and put the pieces in the back of an old grain truck, and left the truck sit in its place for several years until the state made them move the truck - afraid that someone would run into it and get hurt.

You guessed it, another car wound up in the living room.

The family stopped using that side of the house years ago. The county finally added rough strips in the asphalt to wake up sleeping drunks. Fairly recently, the state redid the entire intersection and added turn lanes, cut the grader ditch much deeper and planted an oak tree directly in the line of traffic coming from the county road. A little late, but someone apparently had a flash of common sense.

Junior



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