https://www.yahoo.com/news/singing-road-strikes-wrong-chord-dutch-villagers-202844588.html

I had this idea as a kid!

 

I had this idea as a kid!

Most of us did and as adult drivers we know why it was a childish idea.

 

I had this idea as a kid!

... to annoy your neighbors? ...

 

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/04...s-giving-speeding-tickets-to-parked-cars.html

A New Orleans resident has received several speeding tickets over the past few years for racing through town at the blistering speed of ... 0 mph.

 

... to annoy your neighbors? ...

No, I actually wanted the road to play the William Tell Overture. I thought it'd be cool on an open road...but I was worried about the frequency response of the road/car.

Edit: I even envisioned a machine that would lay the bumps or cut grooves based on a computer file.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/04...s-giving-speeding-tickets-to-parked-cars.html

It's all about money.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...et-red-light-camera-tickets-120617-story.html

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...ion-bogus-traffic-tickets-from-speed-cameras/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...red-light-cameras-suburbs-20180105-story.html

A decade later, we haven’t seen any epic change in driving behavior. And if you still think the main objective was safety rather than revenue, we have some suburban bridges to sell you.


What’s become clear is that many local officials have little interest in the safety results — but they do care about the revenue. Even worse, when there is a clear conflict between preventing accidents and raising money, money gets priority.

That’s the only inference to be drawn from an investigation by Tribune reporters Joe Mahr and Matthew Walberg. “After cameras were installed, the crash rate rose at one-fourth of the places that could be studied,” they found. But the Illinois Department of Transportation has failed to revoke the permits it provides for these cameras.

 

No, I actually wanted the road to play the William Tell Overture. I thought it'd be cool on an open road...but I was worried about the frequency response of the road/car.

Edit: I even envisioned a machine that would lay the bumps or cut grooves based on a computer file.

I can live with Rossini's masterpiece... but imagine if that infernal device were programmed with the tune of an excruciatingly annoying commercial jingle ... something like: "brush your breath, brush your breath, brush your breath with dentyne!"

 

Say this five times. Mystery monkey mummy

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/04/10/mystery-monkey-skeleton-dayton-demolition-minneapolis

Interestingly, Robbinsdale Mayor Regan Murphy says he may know the riddle of the monkey.

"My dad once stole a monkey from a Dayton's display back in the 60s," Murphy wrote on Twitter. "They decided to bring it back after it shat all over my Dad's friends bedroom while they were at school. They returned it by letting it loose in the store.


"This is probably that monkey."

 

Say this five times. Mystery monkey mummy

OK. Now what?

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/04/10/mystery-monkey-skeleton-dayton-demolition-Minneapolis

Like I said, now what?

 

OK. Now what?



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Like I said, now what?

same thing happened to me ... now my day is ruined ... thanks a lot, NSA!

 

OK. Now what?



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Like I said, now what?

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/04/10/mystery-monkey-skeleton-dayton-demolition-minneapolis

Someone slightly edited the link at the news server after it was posted.

 

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/04/10/mystery-monkey-skeleton-dayton-demolition-minneapolis

Someone slightly edited the link at the news server after it was posted.

Now, the question is: Did someone beat the monkey? Or did it die of natural causes?

 

Now, the question is: Did someone beat the monkey? Or did it die of natural causes?

 

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/0.../?utm_source=upi&utm_campaign=mp&utm_medium=5

Wrong way! Looks like they made the 'hinge backside' of the demo cutout too weak on the silo to make it tilt and fall over correctly.

 

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/0.../?utm_source=upi&utm_campaign=mp&utm_medium=5

Wrong way!

Ouch! ... judging from the video, things could've gone much worse!

 

Looks like they made the 'hinge backside' of the demo cutout too weak on the silo to make it tilt and fall over correctly.

Either that, or they got an odd gust of wind at exactly the wrong moment.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/singing-road-strikes-wrong-chord-dutch-villagers-202844588.html

Years and years ago there was a fad in which greeting cards came with a plastic strip that looked like a zip tie, but if you pulled it through your thumb and forefinger with your thumbnail on the ridges it would say, "Happy Birthday," or whatever. The first time I say that I thought it would be a cool thing to make the rumble strips speak to you as if from God.

I wonder if I could have patented the idea. Oh well.

 

Either that, or they got an odd gust of wind at exactly the wrong moment.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...borg-collapse-wrong-way-library-a8295651.html

You can see the 'hinge' failure better on this shot. The entire cut section of the Silo drops in a slide (shear) to the solid base causing the 'hinge' to be on the opposite detonated side.

https://www.facebook.com/msbrandredning/posts/1865812160160527

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...borg-collapse-wrong-way-library-a8295651.html

You can see the 'hinge' failure better on this shot. The entire cut section of the Silo drops in a slide (shear) to the solid base causing the 'hinge' to be on the opposite detonated side.

I'm wondering what caused it to hinge in the opposite direction ... possibly some resonance in the structure when it first hit the ground vertically (likely)? An unbalance in its vertical symmetry axis (doubtful)?

 

I'm wondering what caused it to hinge in the opposite direction ... possibly some resonance in the structure when it first hit the ground vertically (likely)? An unbalance in its vertical symmetry axis (doubtful)?

The downward momentum of the building falling from the top was converted to angular momentum in the wrong direction when the cylinder bottom slid off the Silo base in the back after the explosion in the front created a large gap for a dead drop of the front. This caused a rotation in the entire structure. Once the 'new' bottom of the Silo was resting on the base the top just continued this rotation toward the building.