I’m lucky.
I take a bus to and from work and for that 25 minutes it takes me to get home ( on a good day that is ) I can talk to my friends on the bus, I can read, eat my Popcorn flavored Jelly Bellys and I guess I could take a cat nap now and then but my mouth falls open when I ‘m sleeping so the naps are out.
Sometimes though I stare out the window and count how many people in cars are picking their noses or reading while they drive ( I am NOT making that up ) or I read those signs that tell you about road work or accidents.
I like to read them to remind myself that not driving has it’s rewards- like I don’t have to worry about navigating my way around wrecks or stalled cars.
That’s all I get out of those signs- all they are is electronic road flares. Whatever. Boink they’re there for one minute and I’m gone the next.
Well wouldn’t you know it, somebody somewhere has found a way to hack into those boards and depending on where you live you may have seen messages that read:::
“DAILY LANE CLOSURES DUE TO ZOMBIES.”
“RAPTORS AHEAD — CAUTION.”
“NAZI ZOMBIES! RUN!!!” and “ZOMBIES IN AREA! RUN.”
It does get better
there was also a sign that read:
Photo:Chris Nakashima-Brown
The officials in Texas and Illinois are concerned- they’re afraid that drivers could be distracted by the signs and end up causing accidents.
First of all I’d like to reassure them- I’ve watched lots and lots and lots of drivers talking on phones, putting on makeup, shaving, and in some cases flipping each other off and chasing each other around the freeway while in the midst of road rage.
And guess what.
The freeways are not covered with cars or bodies.
Besides.
Anything that promises me, even in jest, that Zombies are roaming the streets and that packs of Raptors are hiding on the exits waiting to attack unsuspecting commuters
all I can say to that is:
Hey
it’s good for a laugh.
And who couldn’t use a few of those nowdays?
Irregular Bones 
That is hilarious. I would slow down to read those signs too so they are entertaining AND effective.
oh Anita I’m one of those people who read while driving. well not actually while driving but when ever I stop at traffic lights I pick up my book. Can often read an entire chapter on the way to work
Oh that so cheered me up – yay for hackers!
Kent Jones covered this on the Rachel Maddow Show last week and I thougt you migh actually be behind it somehow 😉
I ride the bus home from work every Friday and spend most of it just watching everyone else – it is probably my most socially aware hour and a half of my week.
Peace,
Chad
This is so irresponsible……Soooo, why do I find it absolutely hysterical!
Hi Kym
It’s the Zombies- I mean come one what kind of defective really has to RUN from a Zombie?
Hi Chad- sorry, I don’t catch Rachael, I’m off the TV Machine by then and I ‘m not sure who Kent Jones is.
Am I kicked out of the progressive movement now?
Surely if you are in a car and there are zombies around you would run them over as a community service???? Unless they are those freaky 28 days later ones who go at hyperspeed and spit blood…..
Me and you Cle.
We’re just the caring types I guess.
Caring, sharing and daring. Just some of our middle names.