May 1, 2006 - Miami, Florida

Is this legal?

So we're driving along a typical wealthy Miami neighborhood street when we come up behind this work truck with one of those official road signals mounted on the back. You know, the ones that point a lighted orange arrow either left or right to direct traffic around it. Except there was no way anyone could possibly get around this truck, given the layout of the street. As in most cases when a truck such as this one is encountered, it didn't make a whole lot of headway and caused a nice little traffic roundup. Our tax dollars at work, I thought, and I must be more patient about these things, I thought. Until I noticed what the truck was doing. This particular vehicle was carrying water, and if you look closely at the photo, you can see a high pressure stream of water extending out from the truck all the way across the left lane. So apparently they've found a very lazy way to water trees in private residential yards in Miami. I wonder if that is legal, to stop traffic for a minute about every 30 yards, and to spray all that water in front of the oncoming traffic in the left lane. The truck wasn't marked with a company name, but that may be because there is a slight possibility that people could get a little ticked off when they get stuck behind this ingenious operation...

posted by Mahi at 6:25 PM  

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