---- JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

> kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET writes:
>
> Here  there are these huge speed humps in the road.
> that reminds me of mexico... in the yucatan jungle the villagers would
> string HUGE ropes across the road to act as speed bumps.. they had to be at
> least 6" in diameter and were made literally of braided vines.     like ken
> said, you had to stop and roll over them at a snails pace or they  would
> damage your suspension..

Throughout Mexico, in towns, there are traffic bumps called "topes."  they are parabaloid in shape, and about six inches high, spaced very close together across the street.  In Cuernavaca some friends and I took a taxi, five of us in a tiny little vehicle.  the suspension pretty much bottomed.  The driver drove over the topes at a snail's pace, coming at them at an obtuse angle.  We could hear and feel the bottom of the car rubbing over the bumps.
David McNeely