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(The Herald Dispatch) Strange WV city is littered with broken-down UFOs   (herald-dispatch.com) divider line 50
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cousndick 2007-12-29 02:54:28 PM  
cool

 
Fireproof 2007-12-29 02:55:19 PM  
Subby = Winnar!

 
studebaker hoch 2007-12-29 02:55:44 PM  
God dammit someone already ate the boobies...

 
Myth Sammich 2007-12-29 02:56:23 PM  
I was going to skip reading the article to be the first to say that there where streetlamps everywhere..... glad I decided to RTFA.

/moving along.

 
Mrs_Duggar's_Vagina 2007-12-29 02:56:37 PM  
I don't get it!

/runs and hides

 
Myth Sammich 2007-12-29 02:57:53 PM  
*were

/post-proofreading. It's how I roll.

 
oakleym82 2007-12-29 02:58:34 PM  
www.uncov.com

 
Sybarite [TotalFark] 2007-12-29 03:00:02 PM  
Someone should write a manifesto about this.

 
CalvinMorallis 2007-12-29 03:04:51 PM  
Bravo, subby.

Bravo.

Btw, is subby a fellow H-Towner, or just one who happened to come across the link?

 
qlenfg 2007-12-29 03:08:06 PM  
When I read UFO, I was thinking Un Farkable Objects -- ie the super-ultra-mega-fugly, inbred, trailer-park women you would most likely find in WV.

And some good writing there -- is it 52% or 36%. Just shows its harder to say alot with a little than the other way around. With all the numbers in the article, I would say someone just got done learnin' their third R. Naught, naught, naught...

Its not hard to check the lights, unless you are visually impaired. Seems to me the cops would notice them and call it in. But maybe the lights around the donut shop all work?

What a waste of news print -- they owe me a monitor ink refill. The Pope's Obit wasn't that long...

 
ImFromSnohomish 2007-12-29 03:11:25 PM  
All those poor, poor farkers who werent here on that day :(

 
neeley 2007-12-29 03:14:05 PM  
Good times. I didn't even have to post to enjoy it, lurking was enough.

I like lurking. Makes me feel safe.

 
idrow 2007-12-29 03:14:19 PM  
Strange tag for broken streetlights - meh.

/yeah, I get the reference
//I stand by my initial 'meh'

 
ukiah 2007-12-29 03:16:05 PM  
ImFromSnohomish: All those poor, poor farkers who werent here on that day :(

I was just thinking this. You sleep in late once and all of a sudden you missed the newest cliche.

 
bobboberts 2007-12-29 03:16:13 PM  
img88.imageshack.us

 
GENETICBAGGAGE 2007-12-29 03:17:00 PM  
A Hell of a s t r e t c h .

 
porkloin 2007-12-29 03:21:45 PM  
I once worked for a well-to-do suburban town. They changed all of their stop light, light bulbs twice each year. These would be placed in the dumpster at the town corp yard. I would harvest them, and reuse them in and around my home.

That was more than 25 years ago, but even now, I still find these bulbs working in an overhead fixture or lamp. They had a distinct spherical shape and were not "frosted" as are typical consumer bulbs.

I do not know if this is relevant to the thread, but it is one of only two light bulb stories I know that do not beginn with, "How many ___________ does it take . . . .?"

It may be that the guys who change light bulbs in W.V. only work during the day shift, but that is just a guess.

 
Dupa [TotalFark] 2007-12-29 03:23:59 PM  
Mrs_Duggar's_Vagina: I don't get it!

/runs and hides


Some TFer couldn't figure out what they had taken a picture of so they posted their shot of a blurry streetlamp and asked the class to help them figure out what it was. They probably regret that again here today.

/Welcome to FARK, you'll have to forget any real life if you want to keep up

 
TOSViolation 2007-12-29 03:25:34 PM  
ImFromSnohomish: All those poor, poor farkers who werent here whom were'nt hear on that day :(

Sorry. Pet peeve.

/was here on another day too

 
FireGuts 2007-12-29 03:28:28 PM  
Nice, subby!

 
Whoopa Fadoopa 2007-12-29 03:28:59 PM  
Once, while driving though that state, I saw a little kid standing on a corner next to a street lamp (which may have been out of operation, who knows?) licking a stick of butter as a snack. WV is a different kind of place, 'nuff said.

/almost heaven, WV.

 
mellon101 [recently expired TotalFark] 2007-12-29 03:32:11 PM  
Hometown! whoohooo

/getting a kick

 
qlenfg 2007-12-29 03:33:45 PM  
porkloin sez:

I once worked for a well-to-do suburban town. They changed all of their stop light, light bulbs twice each year. These would be placed in the dumpster at the town corp yard. I would harvest them, and reuse them in and around my home.


Our local hardware store used to sell "traffic light" bulbs. They were as you described and worked well in those yard lights with the electric eyes that seem to eat bulbs like candy. Now that Lowe's and Home Depot have run the mom-and-pop places into the ground, my front yard is dark.

 
GalFisk 2007-12-29 03:40:43 PM  
Traffic light bulbs are more vibration resistant, and has a longer life (at the cost of lower efficiency) because the filament is run at a lower temperature.
They are being increasingly replaced by LEDs, which are extremely efficient, long-lasting and vibration proof.

/done with my semi-random spewing of facts

 
tekneex 2007-12-29 03:48:45 PM  
img.photobucket.com

I can't believe nobody did this yet.

 
James William Bottomtooth 2007-12-29 03:55:40 PM  
This is an excellent submission

 
RedMosquito [TotalFark] 2007-12-29 03:59:16 PM  
poor f@f. It'll never die.

 
meshman 2007-12-29 04:00:33 PM  
"There are two types of streetlights in this area. One is a square-shaped light that sits on the end of a tall, brown pole. These lights, known to city officials as "UFO" lights, date back to a couple of years ago after a paranoid resident mistook it for an alien craft of some kind."

 
torgo jr. [TotalFark] 2007-12-29 04:06:39 PM  
Whoopa Fadoopa Once, while driving though that state, I saw a little kid standing on a corner next to a street lamp (which may have been out of operation, who knows?) licking a stick of butter as a snack. WV is a different kind of place, 'nuff said.


stick of margarine? could've been me.

CalvinMorallis Btw, is subby a fellow H-Towner, or just one who happened to come across the link?

kind of--Marshall grad.

 
brianwoods1978 2007-12-29 04:09:54 PM  
I read that as VW city...

 
ImFromSnohomish 2007-12-29 04:13:19 PM  
TOSViolation: Sorry. Pet peeve.

Dang, you're right. Thanks, learn something new every day :)

 
Oldiron_79 2007-12-29 04:24:39 PM  
I blame the Mothman.

 
Rapture 2007-12-29 04:25:10 PM  
Mrs_Duggar's_Vagina: I don't get it!

/runs and hides


Original streetlight thread (new window)

Follow-up (new window)

/enjoy

 
multiloquax 2007-12-29 04:49:06 PM  
I was here that day, so I'm really getting a kick, etc....

Yeah, I still can't think of that thread without full on busting out laughing.

 
herdgirl72 2007-12-29 06:04:26 PM  
H'town chick here! Now living across the river cause Htown is SOOOO mismananged!!

Those daggone streetlights have been out for awhile now.
But I'm not gonna complain about the broken/missing parking meters around town!! Free Parking!! Woo!

 
iamhalucn8ing 2007-12-29 06:28:14 PM  
Marshall grad also....ATO

that might have been me with the stick of butter

 
duckpoopy 2007-12-29 06:45:14 PM  
Street lights out, traffic signals out, potholes everywhere, deer rotting on the side of the road, trash blowing around, boil water alerts monthly. The place just crumbles beneath your feet. It's like living in the 1800's.

 
tzankoff [TotalFark] 2007-12-29 07:36:07 PM  
I am a Huntington farker (YA RLY!) and needless to say, I am getting a kick out of these replies.

 
castufari 2007-12-29 08:04:15 PM  
Read some of the replies....this is my favorite:

"Every other building build is either a bank or medical office, there's no where to work no where to have fun"

Not sure about other localities but here if I see a street light out I write down the number of the telephone pole it's on and call it into the city. They'll take care of it. Called 4 in last Monday, they were replaced by Thursday.

 
Irontoast 2007-12-29 09:42:36 PM  
www.rlburnside.net

 
starsrift 2007-12-29 10:56:13 PM  
Bureaucracy at its finest.

"The streetlights are out!"

"Tell Public Works to start an investigation!"

/ Infocom, I'm looking at you...

 
magical_mystery_meat 2007-12-29 11:09:31 PM  
Huntington's not a bad little town. If someone threatened me with death and I had to live in the tri-state again, that'd be my first choice.

 
radioman_ 2007-12-30 12:44:43 AM  
Huntington's not a bad little town. If someone threatened me with death and I had to live in the tri-state again, that'd be my first choice.

I've lived in Huntington. I'd pick death.

 
Copy Havoqx 2007-12-30 03:32:45 AM  
Is F@F even still around? I don't think I've seen him much.

/Was here for that day
//read Fark every day actually
///For the last 3 years

 
SciFiFan20 2007-12-30 03:45:13 AM  
Did anyone else notice in that photo, that the photo was taken infront of the law office that burned down last year and was never fixed?

//fellow Huntington-ionian
///is that a word?
////Go herd!

 
damogran 2007-12-30 08:34:59 AM  
they're dark on purpose... the hookers need places to stand...

 
magical_mystery_meat 2007-12-30 02:35:57 PM  
radioman_: Huntington's not a bad little town. If someone threatened me with death and I had to live in the tri-state again, that'd be my first choice.

I've lived in Huntington. I'd pick death.


I grew up outside of Ashland. I meant that it would take the threat of death to get me to move back there, and that Huntington is the least shiatty place in the area.

I still have family and friends in the area, which is the only reason why I would choose living there over death.

 
sjbiars 2007-12-31 01:09:21 AM  
I love my Huntington, damn it.

/Marshall Grad Student

 
Bathia_Mapes [TotalFark] 2007-12-31 01:34:11 AM  
Mrs_Duggar's_Vagina: I don't get it!

/runs and hides


Here's the legendary UFO/streetlight thread

And the follow up thread...It IS a streetlight

Can I interest you in a thread about a certain farker getting his ballsack stuck between the slats of a chair?

 
Braindeath 2007-12-31 02:33:22 PM  
Bathia_Mapes - I would not mind seeing the thread [again] about the man and his er, ordeal if you happen to have the link handy.

 
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