At 18:31 5/11/2000, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>New Zealand does have a lot of sheep.

Lessee, three million people, thirty million sheep...I guess you could call
that a lot. <g>

>  I hate the damn things. Occasionally
>I run one over; they run out in front of traffic when they get through
>holes in the wretched wire fences that line every meter of every road in
>the country.

Clever buggers, aren't they?

>Those white 3x2" roadside poles, now replaced by thin plastic ones that
>don't dent cars or rip out of the ground when hit, bear reflectors to show
>where the road edge is at night, and they work well when they are spaced
>closely enough.

They work great -- they let you know right where the cliff edge is as you
drive over it.  On the same road we would have a railing of wavy-section
(stiff longitudinally) steel 2-3mm thick and a foot high, two feet off the
ground with a 4x6 or so steel I-beam post about every fifteen feet.  The
end might very well be protected by a bunch of plastic 200-litre drums full
of water or sand so you couldn't spear yourself on it.

You can drive through 'em, but you have to work at it.  Of course your
method saves expense, gives a much more attractive (and impressive...)
view, weeds out the unfit, and doesn't dent the car as it goes over the
side. <g>

:)
david

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