Red X Public Information Film

[Sgt Bilko]

Not sure if SP&L is the best place for this PIF!

What do you think to this?

http://www.public.tv/programmes.php?PID=2855&Title=The+Red+X 

[Towie]

Are the public really that stupid? Can`t believe people doon`t know what it means

[Towie]

That has really boiled my piss.

Instead of the "most important sign" bollox, why did they just not keep emphasising "Do not pass"? A numpty would take it to mean carry on but look out because there may be an accident?


And why do all HATOs look like the winners of the Mr Potatohead lookalike competrition?

[Mattt]

They should do a few test ones: dig a big hole, and put a red X in front. Darwin in action.

[DPX]

Funny life , they go through the reds on crossings also to find a few hundred tons of train waiting .

[Sgt Bilko]

Towie said:

And why do all HATOs look like the winners of the Mr Potatohead lookalike competrition?

Probably for the same reason that all recovery agents look like the offspring to Quasimodo?

[Vaux]

Towie said:

And why do all HATOs look like the winners of the Mr Potatohead lookalike competrition?

You haven't seen them all! A couple of the women ones are fit as ......
And I'm actually very handsome........

They do tend to use the Supervisors for talking to camera - and they are dog ugly......

[Towie]

Hardly worth fishing really - only two bites in six hours.

[Towie]

Sgt Bilko said:

Towie said:

And why do all HATOs look like the winners of the Mr Potatohead lookalike competrition?

Probably for the same reason that all recovery agents look like the offspring to Quasimodo?

You`re giving me the hump.

[Spokey]

"Red X's are not put up lightly."

That may indeed be so, Captain weasel, but why don't you ing s turn them off again when you've finished doing what ever you needed to do? The number of times I've gone up the 4-lane stretch of the A1 past Peterborough with red X's lit and not seen even a trace of anything that might have happened a week ago.

These numpties really need to learn about crying wolf.

[Vaux]

Towie said:

Hardly worth fishing really - only two bites in six hours.

Well.....
There's only two of us here and I've been out all evening......

PS - Why do most recovery blokes only have one front tooth and a shaved head?

[Towie]

Vaux said:

Towie said:

Hardly worth fishing really - only two bites in six hours.

Well.....
There's only two of us here and I've been out all evening......

PS - Why do most recovery blokes only have one front tooth and a shaved head?

To attract the female HATOs

[Vaux]

Towie said:

Vaux said:

Towie said:

Hardly worth fishing really - only two bites in six hours.

Well.....
There's only two of us here and I've been out all evening......

PS - Why do most recovery blokes only have one front tooth and a shaved head?

To attract the female HATOs

I can't count the number of times I've had to physically restrain my female HATO partners from jumping on a prostrate recovery bloke as he rolls around under a vehicle!

Apply again Towie - you're missing a lot of fun! And it's a glamorous job as a day-glow womble!

[Towie]

Vaux said:

Apply again Towie - you're missing a lot of fun! And it's a glamorous job as a day-glow womble!

I didn`t want to be just a womble - I wanted to be th daddy womble!

[chris_tivver]

Towie said:

Are the public really that stupid? Can`t believe people doon`t know what it means

I've only ever seen them once. That was on the M3 when they had people working on an accident on the other carriageway and spilling over. Only one lane wasn't lit. I went down that. I reckon 25% of cars went down the lit lanes

[Towie]

Question............... Given that matrix signals are now more sophisticated, why not change it to "No Entry".

Or have a mechanism which drops a railway sleeper to a height of two foot from the deck.

[streaky]

I expected this to be about Upper Cylinder Lubricant ... most disappointed - Streaky

I do know it was spelled "Redex" - S

[Don]

Towie said:

Are the public really that stupid? Can`t believe people doon`t know what it means

Yes they are that thick. Sorry, but it's true. And they haven't read the Highway Code in twenty-five years and have no ing clue. A few public information films reminding people to drive properly is no bad thing.

[CommanderJameson]

streaky said:

I expected this to be about Upper Cylinder Lubricant ... most disappointed - Streaky

I do know it was spelled "Redex" - S

I thought it was going to be about the dangers of not posting images properly.

[/geek]

[dangerous5017]

Towie said:

Are the public really that stupid? Can`t believe people doon`t know what it means

It would be interesting to know what the 43 people who had their VRN's recorded by the Police after driving under 2 red X's on the M25 the other day think when the postman delivers their post shortly. Not bad for 5 mins work !