Official Warning to Iowans: Ice Is Slippery

Also: Sledding can be dangerous.

This winter, new signs in Ames, Iowa, will warn shut-ins emerging into the light for the first time about the properties of frozen water.

"I think it's a little ridiculous," Manuel Gonzalez Santos of Ames adds, we're putting money, putting all our funding into signs that say that ice is slippery. If you don't know that by now than you obviously don't live in Iowa."

The silver lining of this story: The news anchor says the phrase "the city is spending hundreds of dollars" in a very sincere voice. It almost makes you feel warm and fuzzy about government waste that can be explained with only two zeroes. 

 

Via Mark Lambert, tipster king of the frozen North. 

Comments

[Pro Libertate]

There's a friction gap!

[Suki]

+1 LOL

[Nanny Statist Old Poodle sez:]

1. It's just to dangerous for you to go out and gambol in the woods today.

2. It's too slippery too.

[Nanny Statist]

1. It's just to dangerous to hunt and gather in the woods.

2. It's too slippery too.

[Huwah]

If we don't stop the Climate Change, then
WHERE WILL SANTA LIVE?

[Fist of Etiquette]

WARNING: SIGN AHEAD

I thought Obama outlawed all caps signs.

[Al Capp]

He did?

[Andy Capp]

Wassat?

[Mad Scientist]

I hope someone will warn Iowans about the dangers of sharp-edged signs.

[Gojira]

I'm sure we can get that EU commission to spend a few years and a few mil studying the issue, and then determine that there is no scientific evidence that ice is slippery.

[Amanian]

Coefficient Denier!!!111one1!!

[The Extispicator]

Oh crap! They forgot to have the signs say that ice is cold. Now they will have to spend hundreds more on new signs.

[Colonel_Angus]

The signs do not include the proper warning that the metal signs have sharp edges and corners.

[Jerry]

They need a sign that says that sign licking is dangerous in winter.

[Huwah]

Sledding is dangerous. It should require a helmet and adequate supervision from a responsible adult. Preferably someone with government accreditation.

[swillfredo pareto]

"I think it's a little ridiculous," Manuel Gonzalez Santos of Ames adds

Someone needs to check his papers.

[Colonel_Angus]

Pretty much all street type signage and furniture is a waste of money.

[Robert]

God damn you all! I was told
of a sign warning people in America's cold
that ice was slick when one was near.
Now I've a broken trust in your columnist's cheer.
Never write this stuff when you're drinking beer.

[MM]

Well, given that the city lost a $75,000 claim to a sledder, I would say that this is something that they feel is a dumb but prudent expense to avoid further suits. I would bet that legal counsel and/or the City's insurance company advised it. Katherine Mangu-Ward didn't mention the lawsuit, but of course, KMG is not an honest actor.

[Aresen]

Point taken.

Of course, I kinda feel that people who file lawsuits about too hot coffee, too slippery ice, etc should be forbidden to leave their homes without holding their mommy's hands at all times.

[MM]

KMW, rather.

[wareagle]

So, which state should hold be first on the presidential nomination docket?

Hey, how about the one where folks have to be told that ice is slick?

[Greg]

Start looking for signs with 'Bridge Freezes before Road Surface' They are everywhere. IT should be added to the Drivers test as a pass/fail question.

[ClubMedSux]

Here in downtown Chicago, on certain winter days buildings will post signs on the sidewalks warning of ice falling from buildings. Much like the signs I encountered in Colorado warning of falling rocks, I'm not exactly sure how that's supposed to change my behavior (do I walk staring straight up at the air so the falling icicle gets me right in the eye?) but I suppose it's one more defense for the property owner in the case of litigation.