Drivers keep hitting large rock in suburban Calgary parking lot

[Flabbibulin]

The rock has been taken away... we can't have nice things in this city because of stupid people.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Puppet Guy

We will conquer your bad driving habits with a ROCK BOTTOM!!

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Minnie

They can bring it to me. I'll put it on the corner of my yard. Then maybe I won't end up with the asshat dog walkers driving across the yard, to turn around on the street.

I recommend smaller pyramid shaped rocks that are hard to walk on with loose shale mixed throughout. Most people should be able to tell in a few steps that it's not good for stepping. The people that don't heed will hurt themselves falling in the rock garden. Word gets around.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

You have clearly never driven for any length of time in Richmond, British Columbia.

I have as recently as a year ago.

[Madman]

Let's get a couple things out of the way right out of the gate.

• yes, I'm completely serious about this
• no, I'm not trolling

Okay, this is why I don't like rocks:

1. They are hard. I can see them sitting there being all hard at night and I can see them being hard in the morning. If I walked outside and was hard randomly on a daily basis, the cops would be all over me. Why do rocks get away with it?
   
2. They are dangerous - not bear dangerous - but dangerous enough as outlined by the City here. Yes of course your rock isn't, but some are. In fact, there was an incident every day of the year with an agressive rock in Calgary last year. A low-incident year (according to the article), but unacceptable nevertheless. Obviously this only tracks the incidents reported, so it's safe to assume the rates are even higher.
   
3. Crap. People simply don't pick up after their rocks and it is absolutely disgusting. Kudos to you if you do, but enough don't that it is an obvious problem.
   
4. Urine. I've never seen any rock owner, no matter how responsible, pick up their rock's urine. If I whipped out my schlong in the middle of a park where children were playing to take a leak, people would freak. Let's put the public nudity aspect of that example aside, people would be disgusted that I was peeing where kids were playing. I find it equally disgusting to know and see rocks do this, but it is somehow socially unacceptable to call out a guy for letting his rock piss whereever. It's outrageous, frankly.
   
5. They're dirty and they smell bad.

You know, I understand people love their rocks and that's great. And I can also see that it would be unfair to take a rock out of somebody's home - both to the rock and to the owner.

A more realistic solution to this pest problem we have would be a city-funded initiative to crush and tumble every rock in the city, ban the sale/possession of any new rocks, and just wait for the current generation of rocks to return to the earth. Within say 15 years the problem would be solved.

I would be curious to know if anyone else would be interested in this plan. Perhaps we could start a petition or do something to get the ball rolling on this. Obviously it will be a tough thing to achieve, but I think if we are compassionate to the current rock owners, make exceptions for work rocks, etc. this may have legs. It will certainly get support from some people, I'm just not sure how many at this point.

[OMG!WTF!]

I'd like to know what kind of rock it was. I have an ongoing battle with a wrong thinking contemporary who suggests granite is the superior stone. I maintain limestone is the better rock, arguably the best rock of all...maybe second only to welded tuft.

The obstacle rock in question here looks granite-esque to me and quite frankly, it's the kind of thing I'd expect from granite. Lousy counter top scrap.

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by Reaper

I recommend smaller pyramid shaped rocks that are hard to walk on with loose shale mixed throughout. Most people should be able to tell in a few steps that it's not good for stepping. The people that don't heed will hurt themselves falling in the rock garden. Word gets around.

I don't care if they walk on it. I can yell at them to get off my lawn. It's at least some entertainment.

It's the driving across it that's the issue. Hence the desire to have large rocks positioned at the corners of my lawn, covered in snow, so they think it's merely a snowbank, which they will attempt to plow through, because someone always does/tries and oh dear, look at that. Now I have an Audi lawn ornament. It will really class up the neighbourhood.

[topfiverecords]

If only these maroons had dash cams.

Would love to see that footage.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

I'd like to know what kind of rock it was. I have an ongoing battle with a wrong thinking contemporary who suggests granite is the superior stone. I maintain limestone is the better rock, arguably the best rock of all...maybe second only to welded tuft.

The obstacle rock in question here looks granite-esque to me and quite frankly, it's the kind of thing I'd expect from granite. Lousy counter top scrap.

How do you define better? It's all subjective.

Do you support your local Alberta rocks (limestone, sandstone etc.) or that fancy imported stuff (granite, marble etc).

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

I'd like to know what kind of rock it was. I have an ongoing battle with a wrong thinking contemporary who suggests granite is the superior stone. I maintain limestone is the better rock, arguably the best rock of all...maybe second only to welded tuft.

The obstacle rock in question here looks granite-esque to me and quite frankly, it's the kind of thing I'd expect from granite. Lousy counter top scrap.

Originally Posted by Lubicon

How do you define better? It's all subjective.

Do you support your local Alberta rocks (limestone, sandstone etc.) or that fancy imported stuff (granite, marble etc).

Oh please. Everyone and Del Geist and his dog knows that Rundle rock is the best rock. The only rock. It will make Canada great again.

[OMG!WTF!]

I'm all about the local limestone. Hard. Craggy. Karst pockets. Easy to climb. Owing nothing to horrible volcanic disaster.

Rundlestone? Puuhhlease. Flaky ole buggy slag. Del Geist wouldn't know a decent rock if it fell off a burial platform and hit him on the head.

[Northendzone]

these cams would not doubt provide hours of entertainment as they navigated their way thru the city cutting off hundreds of other calgarians, disregarding other obstacles on the road and then we would get to hear their calls to 911 for help getting extricated from their unusual situations.

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

If only these maroons had dash cams.

Would love to see that footage.

[calumniate]

Originally Posted by Madman

[*]Urine. I've never seen any rock owner, no matter how responsible, pick up their rock's urine. If I whipped out my schlong in the middle of a park where children were playing to take a leak, people would freak. Let's put the public nudity aspect of that example aside, people would be disgusted that I was peeing where kids were playing. I find it equally disgusting to know and see rocks do this, but it is somehow socially unacceptable to call out a guy for letting his rock piss whereever. It's outrageous, frankly.
[*]They're dirty and they smell bad.

There was a bar in Calgary where some management genius decided to fill the urinal trough with.. no not ice.. but porous rocks. The smell was repugnant, yet this stayed the status quo for a solid two months. Hahaha it was unbelievable!

[mrkajz44]

Originally Posted by Minnie

I don't care if they walk on it. I can yell at them to get off my lawn. It's at least some entertainment.

It's the driving across it that's the issue. Hence the desire to have large rocks positioned at the corners of my lawn, covered in snow, so they think it's merely a snowbank, which they will attempt to plow through, because someone always does/tries and oh dear, look at that. Now I have an Audi lawn ornament. It will really class up the neighbourhood.

My parents did this a while ago. They started with the normal rock garden with small stones and that didn't fix anything. Got some boulders out there and suddenly people magically stopped cutting the corner.

[-TC-]

that is a whole lot of stupid right there....

[Fuzz]

CSB time. I spent a summer working at our school. One day, the caretaker says "these kids keep cutting through between these 2 buildings with their car." Now, this isn't a road. You have to drive off the road, over a curb, across the basketball tarmac then between the school and portables. The reward for this manoeuvre is a small time savings from going around the school. "Put a couple of these parking curbs in between there, that should stop them." So I grabbed the dolly and moved those heavy ####ers into the gap.

Apparently that night whoever was doing this tried again, hit it at a significant speed and took the front end off their(or their parents) car. Success! For us, anyway.

Also once had to tow a very embarrassed European couple's rental car off one of those parking blocks they had high centred themselves on in Banff. In their defence, it was buried under snow in marking the middle aisle of a parking lot.

[Kolbe31]

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the name “Brangwyn”.


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[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Kolbe31

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the name “Brangwyn”.


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You don't get much more Welsh than Brangwyn Jones.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by Madman

Let's get a couple things out of the way right out of the gate.

• yes, I'm completely serious about this
• no, I'm not trolling

Okay, this is why I don't like rocks:

1. They are hard. I can see them sitting there being all hard at night and I can see them being hard in the morning. If I walked outside and was hard randomly on a daily basis, the cops would be all over me. Why do rocks get away with it?
   
2. They are dangerous - not bear dangerous - but dangerous enough as outlined by the City here. Yes of course your rock isn't, but some are. In fact, there was an incident every day of the year with an agressive rock in Calgary last year. A low-incident year (according to the article), but unacceptable nevertheless. Obviously this only tracks the incidents reported, so it's safe to assume the rates are even higher.
   
3. Crap. People simply don't pick up after their rocks and it is absolutely disgusting. Kudos to you if you do, but enough don't that it is an obvious problem.
   
4. Urine. I've never seen any rock owner, no matter how responsible, pick up their rock's urine. If I whipped out my schlong in the middle of a park where children were playing to take a leak, people would freak. Let's put the public nudity aspect of that example aside, people would be disgusted that I was peeing where kids were playing. I find it equally disgusting to know and see rocks do this, but it is somehow socially unacceptable to call out a guy for letting his rock piss whereever. It's outrageous, frankly.
   
5. They're dirty and they smell bad.

You know, I understand people love their rocks and that's great. And I can also see that it would be unfair to take a rock out of somebody's home - both to the rock and to the owner.

A more realistic solution to this pest problem we have would be a city-funded initiative to crush and tumble every rock in the city, ban the sale/possession of any new rocks, and just wait for the current generation of rocks to return to the earth. Within say 15 years the problem would be solved.

I would be curious to know if anyone else would be interested in this plan. Perhaps we could start a petition or do something to get the ball rolling on this. Obviously it will be a tough thing to achieve, but I think if we are compassionate to the current rock owners, make exceptions for work rocks, etc. this may have legs. It will certainly get support from some people, I'm just not sure how many at this point.

Is this about guns or dogs?

[OMG!WTF!]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

Is this about guns or dogs?

I was thinking...

http://www.petrock.com/