SECURITY COUNCIL
STOP BLIND
UNITY AND FIGHTING CONTRADITIONS
VICTOR DMITRIEV. PHOTO: V. CHERNYKH, V. DERMAN, I. ARKHIPOV, R. KUCHERYAVENKO
Hardly anyone will recall today from a long institute course all the laws of dialectics, but in life we are constantly confronted with them. The road is no exception. We will verify this.
Trying to connect the unconnectable, the road workers were very successful. One of the eloquent examples of this was captured by a reader in the town of Okha, Sakhalin Oblast (photo 1). Realizing that the ban on traffic can only be ignored by a very important person, the road services decided to flatter his ambition and once again emphasize who is in charge here.
True, in order to study dialectics, it is not necessary to go to the Far East at all - metropolitan drivers also have conditions for this (photo 2). Why limit them by forcing them to stop at the stop line or the sign “No stopping is prohibited”, as required by traffic rules? Walking towards the breadth of the Russian soul, the drivers were given as much as 50 meters to choose their favorite place.
Another incident once perplexed drivers in the vicinity of Gelendzhik: if you literally interpret the combination in photo 3, then the sign prohibiting the movement of vehicles weighing more than 20 tons applies only to those whose weight exceeds 15 tons …
In the Russian hinterland, one often encounters something that generally does not fit into the usual framework of understanding, not to mention dialectics (photo 4). Local and, apparently, foreign drivers are warned about the beginning of the village, a bad road, but they recommend … move at a speed of 70 km / h. It seems that here the unwritten laws are higher than the traffic rules themselves.
