Some see safety cones as a warning...

BudgetPlan1

BudgetPlan1

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...and some see them as a challenge. Excellent maneuvering skills, Mr. Deliveryman.
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Awesome they have been nice to me to have enough space between the safety cones so I can get through. Nice guys and gals working at this company tralallalaa. I have a real good day today. (So far LOL)

Ignorence at it`s best!

Sometimes you hear and see great things humans does and you have that little sparkle of the goodness and humble and generous from human kinds. To bad you have to see the worst parts of the humans more than the great parts. Don`t know but the egoism seems to be getting worser from people in general sadly. Nah I try to block those people out of my life and ignore the incidents that I see. And soak up the good things in life. But man it`s getting harder and harder LOL. See I even write that I`m ignorence to things and is selfish I`m bad LOL.
 
Nice. Reminds me of a recent news story I saw where one of those front doorbell cameras caught an Amazon prime van turning around over a guy’s front lawn.
 
BudgetPlan1 said:
Guy had to have done it on purpose methinks. Ya just wonder what exactly made him think it was an OK idea? Strange world...
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I guess I`m more generous than you are, so I`ll play devil`s advocate...from what I have seen these guys have a TON of packages to deliver (the last delivery I got the driver ran from the van to my door and back) so maybe he was more focused on making the delivery, saw enough space between the cones to get through, and was simply distracted enough by his overall goal that he didn`t think through why the cones were there. I mean here in NJ the police have been getting so crazy with the pedestrian signs and the "cone posts" that they force you to drive through little spaces like that on the road, so you`re almost conditioned to "thread the needle" between that stuff, it`s almost the same the way that driver went between the cones.

EDIT: Perhaps more to the point, most of us here have had experiences with kids or employees, where you do something expecting a certain behavior and then get the opposite, and you ask "why do you think there were cones there?" (for example)...in this case perhaps the guy would answer "so I didn`t drive over the cones". After all, I`ve seen potholes with cones in them, to keep you from driving over/into the potholes, in which case you would drive..."between the cones". I`m not defending the guy, I just don`t think he did it on purpose. Perhaps just some combination of stupidity and distraction (with the delivery). I mean I work with a guy that I have these kinds of conversations with almost daily ("how could you think that was the right thing to do?"), and he`s always got a logical (to him) explanation, and I guarantee he would say because there was enough space between the cones for his vehicle he figured it was ok to drive between them, and if you asked why he thought there was a line of cones there, he would say "I dunno". Maybe next time more cones so there is less space between them or some crime-scene tape between the cones.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
I guess I`m more generous than you are, so I`ll play devil`s advocate...from what I have seen these guys have a TON of packages to deliver (the last delivery I got the driver ran from the van to my door and back) so maybe he was more focused on making the delivery, saw enough space between the cones to get through, and was simply distracted enough by his overall goal that he didn`t think through why the cones were there. I mean here in NJ the police have been getting so crazy with the pedestrian signs and the "cone posts" that they force you to drive through little spaces like that on the road, so you`re almost conditioned to "thread the needle" between that stuff, it`s almost the same the way that driver went between the cones.

EDIT: Perhaps more to the point, most of us here have had experiences with kids or employees, where you do something expecting a certain behavior and then get the opposite, and you ask "why do you think there were cones there?" (for example)...in this case perhaps the guy would answer "so I didn`t drive over the cones". After all, I`ve seen potholes with cones in them, to keep you from driving over/into the potholes, in which case you would drive..."between the cones". I`m not defending the guy, I just don`t think he did it on purpose. Perhaps just some combination of stupidity and distraction (with the delivery). I mean I work with a guy that I have these kinds of conversations with almost daily ("how could you think that was the right thing to do?"), and he`s always got a logical (to him) explanation, and I guarantee he would say because there was enough space between the cones for his vehicle he figured it was ok to drive between them, and if you asked why he thought there was a line of cones there, he would say "I dunno". Maybe next time more cones so there is less space between them or some crime-scene tape between the cones.
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I suppose anything is possible, ya just never know. Just curious that when given the choice to turn right and turn around in a completely empty parking on that side they chose to turn left, maneuver in between the cones into an obviously freshly `something-ed` parking lot then do some more maneuvering to make it out between more cones.

Turning right to circle in an unobstructed and larger empty lot woulda been the quicker choice.

No big deal, provided some nice entertainment on an otherwise dull Friday. Interesting to ponder motivations...
 
You certainly have a better perspective on the circumstances than I do. I presumed he was trying to get somewhere to make the delivery, rather than just trying to turn around.

As I alluded to, in my dealings with stupid people, they rarely seem to have malice aforethought, they just have their own set of logic that dictated their actions (and their logic rarely comports with mine). It`s the smart people that do things maliciously and pretend otherwise. I hope your claim with Amazon works out, I imagine it will.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
...they just have their own set of logic that dictated their actions (and their logic rarely comports with mine).
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I seem to be running into this a lot recently

To wit:
Last weekend we flew to Asheville, NC for the weekend, traveling with wife`s cousin and her husband.

Since we only have smaller, 2 door cars they suggested they drive to airport in their large SUV; makes sense so far, luggage, 4 people...need some room. They live about 5 minutes away from us.

When asked what time they were picking us up Friday morning, her cousin said they would be dropping their SUV off at our house Thursday night and then we should drive their car to their house Friday morning and then they would drive to airport.

I`m still trying to work out the logic behind that one...but it made perfect sense to them so that`s what we did. Guess everybody thinks differently; Lord knows some of the things I do are quite puzzling to others!
 
How does that saying go? Something like "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". Not that it makes much of a difference for the people who have to fix it...
 
Never underestimate the stupidity of people. Every so often the fuel pumps at work will go out due to an internet issue so we have to put cones infront of the pumps so the truck drivers won`t try and use them. Without fail we`ll get a call that they`re down again. What? Sure enough some yahoo will move the cones and proceed to try an refuel. They go absolute ballistic when I tell them they are down (like it wasn`t obvious before!) and will have to go literally 1 mile to the truckstop. I understand the fuel is cheaper as you get instant fuel subsidies filling up at the Hub, but it only takes a day to get that back if you fuel at the truckstop... It`s usually 1-3am, I`m in no mood to deal with drama queen truck drivers, you`re wasting my time especially if there`s a breakdown inside I really need to take care of! /rant
 
I mean, to be fair, a 1ft pylon doesn`t exactly scream "stay out!" The completely different colour asphalt sorta does though. Hahah.

Construction posts (like stanchions) with caution tape make much more of a statement.
 
RANGERBAY said:
You need to a better job setting up your autocross!
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YES!!!! I came here for this comment!

The question is whether it was simply a gate, in which there are some pointer cones missing. Otherwise the timing lights and the alternate colored cones for the start and finish lines are missing. Of course it could be an open slalom, in which case they missed all the cones and were DNF`d for that run.

I wonder what their time was and what type of PAX weighting a Sprinter van gets?
 
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