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Re: [Something] Cheerio, chaps. A question for the Brits...

  • FromChristopher Hickman <tophu@xxxxxxx>
  • DateTue, 06 Mar 2007 07:26:10 -0800
On Tuesday, March 06, 2007, at 08:18AM, "Dylan O'Donnell" <psmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Christopher Hickman wrote:
>> I came across a story of some jackass that wrecked a really friggin'  
>> expensive car, and in the "before" shot it shows the car parked along  
>> a street with weird jagged lines painted along side.  Was the street  
>> painter coming straight from several pints at the pub, or does that  
>> design have some kind of special meaning?  Here's the photo: http:// 
>> www.wreckedexotics.com/special/veyron/before.jpg
>
>They mark the area either side of a pedestrian crossing in which
>parking is illegal; you can see the zebra-stripe markings of the
>crossing at the right of the picture.
>
>http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/18.htm

Zebra, toucan, pelican, puffin?  I speak English, and I have no idea what this page is talking about.