Don't mind me, I'm just a pole.

Lillipout · 2012-11-19T20:12:26+00:00

This post is on Route 251 in Johnville, Quebec. It is a temporary placement while work is being performed to correct dangerous conditions on that section of highway. It it scheduled to be removed by Hydro Quebec "soon". The folks in charge seem to be embarrassed by it. Source (in French)

sir_fancypants · 2012-11-19T20:24:38+00:00

This will definitely cut down on the number of drunk drivers, one way or another.

nimoto · 2012-11-19T23:10:49+00:00

My grandparents are from Newtown Connecticut. http://i.imgur.com/Qc9iU.jpg Yes, that's a flagpole in the middle of the intersection, and a Catholic and Protestant Church across from each other..

MR_WITTY_RESPONSE · 2012-11-19T20:19:26+00:00

"Lets just add a little sign with orange stripes, that should take care of it"

turbie · 2012-11-19T20:29:11+00:00

That's a horrible post

NecroGod · 2012-11-19T20:06:26+00:00

Caution: speed ~~bump~~ pole.

pineapplol · 2012-11-19T23:13:14+00:00

In the UK the government routinely puts shit in the middle of the road on purpose for 'Traffic calming'.

http://www.speedlimit.org.uk/images/daresbury20_4.jpg
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/83/01/830141_323f10a6.jpg
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/35/48/2354888_53925ebf.jpg

greencoldpeas · 2012-11-19T20:21:44+00:00

"Hey should we put this pole here?"

"I dunno, lets not question it."

Maybe the problem was this road construction took less than 2 years on a mile of roads.

CitizenOfCamelot · 2012-11-19T20:27:14+00:00

Day 4: I have successfully infiltrated the centre of the road. The cars still do not suspect I am a post.

ginger_spoon · 2012-11-19T20:42:37+00:00

This is a deer strip club.

trencomsm · 2012-11-19T22:33:27+00:00

The title reads better in this guy's voice

doctechnical · 2012-11-19T20:05:10+00:00

That pole must be holding up some terrifically important.

AmandyWarhol · 2012-11-19T23:29:47+00:00

I drove by this last night! It definitely made me wtf... and so does the fact that it's on reddit the night after I happened to almost hit it on my drive home... wtf-ception.

PersernErmertal · 2012-11-19T22:25:20+00:00

Its a gif, yet, nothing is happening?

rabbitvinyl · 2012-11-19T23:02:22+00:00

I'm so proud of my province right now. Tabarnak.

jaxspider · 2012-11-19T20:38:28+00:00

Get out of the road, pole you're not a car! You don't even move!

SourCreamWater · 2012-11-19T20:44:23+00:00

How about a couple cones, guys?

darthdelicious · 2012-11-19T21:03:22+00:00

Looks like the kind of crap they do where I live. Always widening roads and then moving the telephone poles. They also love putting lamp standards in the middle of people's driveways.

ringolio · 2012-11-19T20:48:39+00:00

And So Can You!

ServerGeek · 2012-11-19T20:18:30+00:00

What could possibly go wrong with that pole placement?

sometimesijustdont · 2012-11-19T22:40:20+00:00

This pole gives no fucks. Not even a few safety cones.

rckcowboy8 · 2012-11-19T20:04:15+00:00

What the absolute fuck?!

LunarLovers · 2012-11-19T21:41:16+00:00

Where is the shadow of the pole?!

fingers · 2012-11-19T21:21:43+00:00

Fuckers on TrackMania do this all the time....Prepping us for this situation.

Stavros175 · 2012-11-19T22:06:39+00:00

In Thessaloniki, Greece there is a church that at first was just next to a main road but when the city added lanes to that road the church refused to demolish so 1 side of a 8 lane street suddenly becomes a 2 lane street because of that.

FingerMyFetus · 2012-11-19T22:53:22+00:00

Who ever uploaded that picture as a gif is just the worst kind of person. I sat there staring at the screen for like 30 seconds waiting for it to move.

NickedOut · 2012-11-19T23:03:30+00:00

The title made me expect a Polish joke to be lurking here

RnRaintnoisepolution · 2012-11-20T00:27:04+00:00

doesn't belong in wtf, more /r/mildlyinteresting

PlatonicBoner · 2012-11-19T22:31:39+00:00

What is WTF about this? This is what I encounter on a daily basis. Best regards, Bicyclist.

Had_To_Switch · 2012-11-19T20:52:06+00:00

Don't mind me, I'm just a pole.

geraldfjord · 2012-11-19T22:55:54+00:00

Polish the pole with Polish polish.

Revenge21 · 2012-11-19T23:09:31+00:00

It's just a drunk driver detector

bloxie · 2012-11-19T23:14:37+00:00

Where's its shadow?

TalonX1982 · 2012-11-19T23:32:39+00:00

Go home telephone pole, you're drunk.

jayjacks · 2012-11-19T23:35:21+00:00

I bet that pole gets drunk and talks about how many sober driver's it has killed.

syllabic · 2012-11-20T00:23:10+00:00

Oh pole.. how many people have you killed?

r81984 · 2012-11-20T01:32:18+00:00

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/new-cars/auto-news/pole-in-the-middle-of-quebec-road-deemed-unacceptable/article5439607/ (Link in English) Basically they moved the road to avoid a dangerous curve and the power company delayed moving the pole when the government set the deadline for construction. The government decided to move the road anyways as the construction crew was ready to go. Even with the road there, the power company is still stalling. They say it will take another week to move, so in total even with the road as a source of motivation they are still 5 weeks behind schedule.

ajlarosa · 2012-11-19T22:46:57+00:00

go home pole your drunk

tydyno · 2012-11-19T22:52:58+00:00

Go home pole. You're drunk.

Hatchrooster42 · 2012-11-19T20:06:38+00:00

Looks like a recipe for disaster.

CoalDigger · 2012-11-19T21:44:01+00:00

It really bugs me the fact that it's a .gif.

Hurricane_DickSmash · 2012-11-19T22:29:17+00:00

I AM A BANANA

IThinkIThinkTooMuch · 2012-11-19T22:54:54+00:00

The problems with Poles get much more severe if you do Nazi them.

rsmjr · 2012-11-19T22:29:26+00:00

Those Polish people aren't too bright.

champs · 2012-11-19T22:53:50+00:00

Speaking as someone who doesn't drive, I'm used to that sort of thing in bikeways, which apparently just double as parking spaces for delivery trucks, taxis, garbage cans, shipping containers, road debris, you name it.

And yet some drivers go into a blind rage when they lose seconds to a bike in front of them.

Dunking_Machine · 2012-11-19T23:48:46+00:00

What is even REMOTELY WTF about this?

What's really WTF about this post is how it has almost 2k upvotes. God, the hivemind is fucking retarded sometimes.

workpuppy · 2012-11-19T22:11:37+00:00

WHAT PART OF "NO PASSING" WASN'T CLEAR MOTHERFUCKER?

ThisIsMyCouchAccount · 2012-11-19T22:30:26+00:00

My home town has an old hand powered water pump in the middle of road. The road is a two-lane highway and at least six people have hit it.

THEFRIEGUY · 2012-11-19T22:34:17+00:00

THIS POLE CUT ME OFF

JamoWRage · 2012-11-19T22:34:59+00:00

This what happens when we stop clearing forests to make roads. Roads get made, and the forest becomes a hazard. Are you happy now, hippies?

Radius86 · 2012-11-19T22:36:02+00:00

I'm pretty sure the Germans won't mind you. For much longer...

iamnotanumber10 · 2012-11-19T22:37:01+00:00

That's what he said.

_ze · 2012-11-19T22:42:12+00:00

This is unacceptable.

initiallastname · 2012-11-19T22:45:17+00:00

Saw the TC, but came in here to ask... Russia?

Deefunx · 2012-11-19T22:50:11+00:00

As a Brit I saw this and thought; "Obviously you shouldn't park in the middle of the road."

Sleep45 · 2012-11-19T22:52:24+00:00

I hope it has a counter for cell phone/texting drivers.

v4xN0s · 2012-11-19T22:53:11+00:00

I think this "post" was in the wrong place.

Leather_cheerio · 2012-11-19T22:55:04+00:00

Go home pole...

kingclarkeson · 2012-11-19T22:55:20+00:00

Impressive turn around! saw this in r/new yesterday with a shittier title. Thumbs up bro/a

kaharz · 2012-11-19T22:56:58+00:00

I've seen this happen in the US when the contractor or developer and the utility company get in a fight over who is responsible for moving the pole. There was one that the pole was there for a year and a half.

marxhalvick · 2012-11-19T22:57:32+00:00

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/13gsz3/you_had_one_job/

Grill3dCheeze · 2012-11-19T22:58:38+00:00

I saw the title and came looking for kielbasa.

Zayadur · 2012-11-19T22:59:18+00:00

That pole had a home once.

ccf92 · 2012-11-19T22:59:27+00:00

photoshop

Pavswede · 2012-11-19T23:00:07+00:00

That's a pole, and so can you.

ans141 · 2012-11-19T23:00:52+00:00

as an EIT, i would like to meet the jackass who stamped the plans that allowed this to happen.

wow_great_name · 2012-11-19T23:01:02+00:00

Original post, OP.

comfortador · 2012-11-19T23:02:03+00:00

Thia clearly belongs here.

ichyboo · 2012-11-19T23:02:35+00:00

cool

berkaderk · 2012-11-19T23:02:38+00:00

This is every parking spot in my parking garage.

aluki90 · 2012-11-19T23:03:14+00:00

a few years ago, me and some friends went to big bear to lull about in the snow. upon leaving, my boyfriend was slightly intoxicated and driving (yes, i know this was a terrible idea. we were all 16 once) and he failed to see a HUGE fucking tree literally in the middle of the road. (we were at a T shaped intersection) i'm talking a 400 y/o sequoia tree, absolutely massive. he ran right into it (we might have been going like 10 mph) and our friends driving behind us were completely shocked, terrified and amazed at how NONE of us in the car noticed the tree was there. there were four people. :/

edit: grammar, details

ummrz · 2012-11-19T23:07:41+00:00

That pole is just asking for it.

foslforever · 2012-11-19T23:15:51+00:00

its a load bearing pole

bobsagetfullhouse · 2012-11-19T23:15:55+00:00

Was something supposed to move? Why was this a gif?

shodgdon · 2012-11-19T23:16:50+00:00

OH MY GOD, WTF?!?! That's enough internet for today.

SolomonGrumpy · 2012-11-19T23:16:54+00:00

More like: MIND ME - I AM A POLE!

yea_i_nutted · 2012-11-19T23:17:15+00:00

Just an 'in-line' driver sobriety test, is all.

Krazy19Karl · 2012-11-19T23:17:32+00:00

Reminds me of a scene in the Buster Keaton movie, Seven Chances (1925)

GreenGunGrabber · 2012-11-19T23:18:14+00:00

I'm just a tree

MogusMaximus · 2012-11-19T23:20:09+00:00

THIS GUY got a bit close.

Anonymousdave69 · 2012-11-19T23:22:40+00:00

This needs to be posted in /r/infrastructureporn

bsrg · 2012-11-19T23:23:13+00:00

This reminds me of a few lines I read a long time ago, something about a singpost warning for stones and stones for supporting the signpost...

jetmonkey · 2012-11-19T23:24:35+00:00

Huh, I was expecting it to be surrounded by smashed headlight lenses and chunks of bumper cover.

majikmixx · 2012-11-19T23:24:57+00:00

Famous last words

TheNick10 · 2012-11-19T23:25:38+00:00

I stared at this for too long

luciferase0 · 2012-11-19T23:26:02+00:00

Good work. We would have also accepted, "Go home pole, you're drunk."

Flinkelinks · 2012-11-19T23:26:19+00:00

And so can you!

tallpoke · 2012-11-19T23:26:22+00:00

Silly pole, you shouldn't be there!

spockosbrain · 2012-11-19T23:26:50+00:00

I'm tired of your Polish jokes. Just remember, it takes a Pole to hold up the American flag!

syphradic · 2012-11-19T23:29:06+00:00

I find the location of this wooden shaft to be ap-pole-ing.... Yeah

suspiciously_calm · 2012-11-19T23:30:01+00:00

You pass the pole on one side and the oncoming traffic passes it on the other side.

Problem?

Pat1234567890 · 2012-11-19T23:30:32+00:00

in the middle of the road...

banhammer1 · 2012-11-19T23:30:41+00:00

/r/mildlyinteresting

Hughman100 · 2012-11-19T23:35:10+00:00

At least put traffic cones around it!

judog24 · 2012-11-19T23:37:19+00:00

SimCity

squeamish_ossifrage · 2012-11-19T23:42:08+00:00

Oh he's not a pole, he's a man! Cause he just raped me!

tastefullygraped · 2012-11-19T23:43:09+00:00

We have something similar here! in PA

AnotherSmegHead · 2012-11-19T23:43:17+00:00

I didn't know the French-Canadians were also... POLISH! Rim-shot

Gludius · 2012-11-19T23:43:25+00:00

Does not make for a fun trip home at 2 am after the party

WTF

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