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To: one_less who wrote (17847)	12/9/1998 1:45:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) of 67261

State Transit Authority Caught Storing Cones on the Highway: A BNN Investigative Report Have you ever been stuck in traffic because a lane or two of the highway had been coned off? You may have thought that it was due to construction or road repair, but our BNN investigative news team has uncovered the shocking truth. Your state's Transit Authority is using the highways of America to store cones! We secretly followed State Transit Authority vehicles and found that every night they randomly select a highway or major boulevard then set their cones and blinking lights out. Sometimes they will block only one lane, but if weather is particularly bad they will block two or three lanes in order to store more cones in a smaller area. This practice which transit authority workers have dubbed 'movable gridlock' causes severe traffic interruptions and is estimated to cost Americans billions of dollars in lost work time. Said one Transit worker who wished to remain anonymous, "The pencil-necks up in Administration don't want to pay the money for storage yards or warehouses so they came up with the idea of 'movable gridlock'. The first time I was told to do it I told my supervisor he was crazy. I told him that it would make rush-hour traffic worse. He told me to shut my hole and lay the cones out. He also told me that if I ever told anyone that the IRS would audit my returns for the next 10 years." Said another anonymous Transit worker, "We don't really have a system for picking which roads will be coned off. I've seen supervisors drinking beers and throwing darts at a map to pick which road will be next." When BNN confronted the head of the State Transit Authority with the evidence that we had uncovered we were met with armed guards and thrown out of the building. Two days later BNN headquarters was broken into and all of our computers were smashed and a note was put on the receptionist's desk which said, "If you know what is good for you, then you won't run the cone story." More on this story as it becomes available.

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