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New Zealand Creates Safety Billboard That Bleeds When It Rains

Posted by samzenpus on from the when-it-rains-it-gores dept.

Officials in Papakura, New Zealand have come up with a billboard that bleeds when it rains. They hope it will encourage drivers to slow down when the weather makes conditions dangerous. Since the billboards have been erected, there hasn't been a fatal accident in the area.

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  1. Zero of nothing by Shihar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since the billboards have been erected, there hasn't been a fatal accident in the area.

    Of course, being New Zealand, since the billboard was erected there have not been any cars there either.

  2. How Long? by sycodon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Until someone crashes while gawking at the bleeding billboards?

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  3. Correlation is not causation by Tyler+Durden · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why should we accept that the rain causes the billboard to bleed? Perhaps the bleeding of the billboard causes the rain...

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