This story made me chuckle today. Pensioners' groups have called for the road sign depicting old people to be revamped because the current design is 'insulting'. I can kind of see where they're coming from - of-course all elderly people don't hobble along all hunched with a walking stick. But some do, and surely they're the ones that the motorists should be looking out for, eh? Ah well, I guess the pensioners' groups in question got some publicity out of it. *Bonus fact*
According to the Daily Mail (hmmm) "the current sign for 'elderly people crossing' was the winning entry in a children's competition held in 1981." Aaaw. (The Daily Mail comment board on this story is well worth a read).
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Yay that also made me chuckle! I really wonder what they ar going to come up with instead...
Is it bad of me that I once took a photo of someone posing in a piss taking manner by an "Elderly People" sign?
It probably is. I'm going to burn in hell though anyway: the camel's back was snapped by tonnes of straw years ago...
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