Traffic Poles vs. Box Truck
Have you ever come to a toll crossing or parking attendant’s booth and you don’t quite have the cash. Maybe the thought has crossed your mind to mash your foot to the floor and bust through the flimsy traffic gate. Well apparently people have done this a few times because someone felt the need to develop an even stronger traffic restraining device. The time of the crossing gate is coming to an end. There is a new parking lot enforcer in town and its name is the traffic pole.
I haven’t seen any of these brutal car stopping weapons in the US, but apparently they are taking Europe by storm. So what exactly is a parking pole you ask? Well as the name implies it is a pole, a large steel pole, which sits hidden in the ground until it is called upon to rise out of its hiding place and stop all vehicles dead in their tracks.
Here are a few instructional videos that show how these nifty devices work. They will also probably persuade you never to try and burst through one, unless you are a glutton for carnage.
We’ll start with the gentler video first:
And now the grand finale:
-Bill Mertz
traffic pole, traffic gate, accident, trucks
February 5th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
I could see how these would be hard to see if they were lowered for the car in front of you. By the time they pass over it, they probably just look like little bumps.