The route to my office building includes a windy driveway dotted with black and yellow striped speed bumps. Many drivers don't like these and try to maneuver their vehicles in between the opposing bumps. Sometimes their cars don't fit but they still try to drive through the middle so that only one pair of tires has to roll over the tiny hills. Because actually slowing down would just be too much trouble, I guess.
Recently on the way to work, I saw this:
As you can see, one half of one side of a previously matching set of speed bumps is gone. I am befuddled. How does this happen? I could understand if the bump was askew because it was somehow forcibly bumped by a passing lowriding car. Or even if it was down the driveway quite a distance because it had been dragged. Or broken or cracked because some heavy object had bounced out of the back of a truck and fallen on it.
But gone? Who does that? Who consciously detaches and removes a speed bump? And why? What would a person do with a speed bump? Maybe they have a bumble bee themed yard? Why not just buy a slab of concrete and paint it? Or get one from a junkyard? Or use some other easily accessible item to slow down traffic in front of your house? I can't imagine that there wouldn't be an easier way to get a speed bump if you really needed one.
Maybe it was a fraternity prank? Scavenger hunt?
I just can't come up with a sensible guess.
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