You Say, “Pix or It Didn’t Happen”? Here Ya Go.

| June 3, 2015

Well, the road trip is over. But on the way back, I had a chance to verify something.

I previously posted an article about an, um, “interestingly-named” town in Florida. Well, in case anyone thought I – or Google Maps – might be pulling yer leg, here ya go: photographic proof.

 

Yeah, the picture sucks, and is fairly blurry. Sorry – but YOU try driving in traffic with one hand while snapping a photo of a smallish road sign with the other.  At the time, stopping in the middle of the road to get a better shot was NOT a viable option. It’s at least fairly readable.

As I said previously: only in America!

Category: Pointless blather, Who knows, WTF?

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A Proud Infidel®™

EASY there Hondo, how do we know if you aren’t being tracked by ASS-ASS-INs hired by The Dutch Rudder Gang? One of them DID say they nearly got Hack and Ex-PH2! /sarc

David

Unless you fly in, seems to me there are signs at the state borders, too. Pretty hard to miss, even on the back roads from Pittsburgh to Canton.

streetsweeper

Heh!

Flagwaver

I’ve seen pictures of bigfoot that weren’t as blurry.

😛

jonp

How do I post that picture of a UFO i took last year over the back cornfield? It is teleporting Bigfoot up in a beam of light

Roger in Republic

Ok. I don’t have pictures but I just spent three hours standing security overwatch from my front deck. My wife said that she heard someone calling for help from the property next to us. She took a pistol and her German shepherd and drove down the road to get the the sound. Two minutes later she comes tearing back up the drive and honking her horn. I went out to see what she wanted. She said that a coyote had chased a mulie doe up the hill and passed our garage. She opened her car door and handed me a newborn fawn. She had found it laying in our driveway. She knows not to touch them, but she was afraid the coyote would come back for it. We took it back down where she found it and laid her in the deep grass at the side of the road. I got a chair and parked myself on the front deck with my trusty SSK and watched the lower field to keep the predators at bay. About three hours later Mama deer came back. The fawn had not moved a muscle during the time I watched, but she got up and followed her mother toward the deeper cover. We watched this doe start her labor about dark last night so the baby was less than 10 hours old when her mom was jumped this AM. Contrary to what you may have been told, a deer will accept her fawn even if a human has touched it.

Pinto Nag

So, was it the doe or the fawn that called for help? I. am. so. confused.

Roger in Republic

I assume that it was the doe. The fawn didn’t make a peep except when I got back in the car with her. She mad a very soft bleating like a goat.

Thunderstixx

Cool, thanks for sharing that with us.
Nature is so indifferent and sometimes our meddling causes more harm than good.
This time I see it is good.
Thanks for sharing and also for saving the life of that baby fawn.
I quit hunting after I got out of the Army, I decided it is much more sporting to shoot at things that can shoot back at you!!!

nbcguy54ACTUAL

Thunderstixx – I feel the same way. I gave up hunting shortly after I got out. Just didn’t enjoy it anymore. I don’t need the meat and I’m too lazy to dress them out. I still love the outdoors, it’s just for me anyway, it’s more of a challenge now to “hunt” animals with my camera.

Flagwaver

I hunt. I use paint ball guns with bright orange dye. It’s just my way of sticking it to the drunken rednecks who will shoot at anything unless it’s wearing a safety color.

Muahahahahaha.

And yes, I am one of those guys who don’t mind watching the world burn.

A Proud Infidel®™

I see I’m not alone in thinking that way.

GDContractor

Excellent story Roger.

At one time I was the only field mechanic for a logging operation at Appleton Cove, Alaska. In the Spring, the does and fawns would be in the middle of the logging roads because, if so, they could see the big bad bear coming before it ate them. I don’t know how many times I would come upon a little fawn laying in the middle of the dirt road, with mama just barely in the treeline. Those fawns would not move. I’d have to set the brake, get out, and shoo the little baby towards its mama. Once or twice, that didn’t work and I had to carry it and set it down in the ditch. Ducks and geese with their young were the same way. To all of them, the roadbed provided visibility and early warning for the approach of predators. The bears were thick at Appleton Cove. To my knowledge all the crusty old loggers I worked with that drove trucks or equipment stopped and gave the right of way to the little furry and feathered ones. (BTW there was helicopter logging going on there too and my favorite pilot guy was a Loach driver in the RVN… awesome dude. Good times)

Poetrooper

From Wikipedia:

The community got its name by residents saying “t ain’t” Oviedo and “t ain’t” Chuluota.

tc

Yup…lived right around the corner from that sign…tain’t Ovedo, and tain’t Chuluota. Honda, if you’re still in Central FL I’d be happy to buy a you a cold one if you are anywhere near Patrick AFB.

gitarcarver

PAFB?

That is REAL close to me.

tc

Live a mile from the south gate. The PAFB Marina Tiki is one of the best bars in the area.

gitarcarver

That would put you in un-incorporated Satellite Beach, right?

I am in the incorporated area.

Nice to meet you, neighbor.

tc

Hey neighbor…yup, live in the surf slum

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

Hats off Honda … Well played. Well played indeed.

Dave Hardin

The girls at one of the restaurants are worried you are driving and taking pictures while texting.

They just worship your posts Hondo.

Be safe.

GDContractor

Your post cracks me up. But I am worried your swooning employees might fall and hit their head on the restaurant floor. In this case I think reflective belts are definitely in order. Letting them read Hondo’s posts without any PPE….think of the liability man.

Dave Hardin

Oh, you have no idea. If HONDO didn’t post it then its not worth reading. HONDO is always right.

I think I could get them to do a “Draw HONDO” day. You have no idea how many times I have heard, “Ya, but HONDO said…..”.

Jarhead

An unbeliever who still refuses to believe Elvis is dead took one look at this sign and said it was a secret code, meant to be read backwards by “believers” who read it as:
Elvis Tonight. She swears she is a psychic who regularly keeps in touch with him. She also reported self-made war hero Michael Conley was Audie Murphy’s reincarnation. How is it these people talk me into shelling over $30 for such useless information?

Hack Stone

They said that Virginia is for lovers, but I think that Intercourse, PA is for lovers. Makes me wonder what the name of the Intercourse high school football team is named.

Silentium Est Aureum

And if you can’t get any in Intercourse, you can always head over to Loyalsock.

Yes, it exists, just the other side of the river from Williamsport.

rgr1480

And in Illinois they have Normal and Oblong.

Supposedly a true wedding announcement:

“OBLONG BOY MARRIES NORMAL GIRL”

Jesse Ventura

This is clearly a sham.

The text on the sign has been made intentionally blurry in order to hide the obvious photoshop work. I’m a former governor. I was a navy seal. A professional fighter. And I’ve never seen a blurry picture of a road sign.

If you guys want to accept the official story that Taintsville exists, well (guffaw) you go right ahead.

Marine_7002

Here’s a better, more informative view of the sign:

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🙂

Green Thumb

I bet the False Commander and CEO of All-Points Logistics, Phony Phil Monkress, has a corporate, taxpayer-funded vacation home there.

Green Thumb

As long as it is taxpayer-funded based on his nefarious LEO, SEAL and Native American claims.

I feel sorry for those folks. When Phildo shows up or All-Points Logistics tries to open a satellite branch, Phildo will attempt to rob them blind.

And with a name like “Taintsville”, Phildo WILL be looking for some action.

Stacy0311

North Carolina has a nice town called Rock Ridge. I HAD to pull over for a picture of that.
“Somebody go back and get a shitload of dimes”

rgr1480

I guess not a few of us here belong in this store:

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