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1. That’s just not right…

2. “The problem will be fixed by the end of the month”
   The Quebec construction industry is great at fixing things… (note: which month?)

3. I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you.

4. It’s Quebec…. who cares?

5. Wait a minute.
   All you have to say is the electric lines are having an affect on the nearby bovine population and causing a sour taste in the brie de meaux and voila! the lines will disappear.
   Screw the humans in climate-killing cars.

6. north_of_60 at November 19, 2012 4:46 PM
   “It’s Quebec…. who cares?”
   Or is really surprised?

7. There’s a street in Richmond,B.C. where the same situation exists. Apparently,they widened the road but left the pole in place.
   As people should be travelling at 50 km/h,it’s really no problem, just rather startling to see.

8. And of course Quebec Hydro is a crown-owned entity…

9. Apparently the bribe $ did not get into the right hands.

10. Somebody did not get their expected kickback.

11. This pole has a VERY LIMITED lifetime. One way… or the other.

12. one has to wonder which entity Queerbecker NDPee works for, the roads dept. or the utility?????

13. @ NME666
    Since he loves Quebec, the NDP and seperatists , it’s a safe assumption he doesn’t work at all.

14. From dangerous curve to a hydro pole not even in the middle of the road. I wonder if it had a transformer hanging off it too.
    Guess no one wanted to rock the boat, and say WTF?
    Happens a lot these days. However this is about the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.
    I’m sure it will be mentioned at the next safety meeting, so it doesn’t happen again.
    Thanks Quebec you make the province of Ontario look pretty smart construction wise.

15. It would be racist and anti-“Pole-ish” to take it down. This from the people who gasp at the word ‘niggardly’.

16. Here in People’s Republic Massachusetts you can tell when they are going to dig up road for drains, gas, water or whatnot. They first repave and stripe it, nice and neat. Then they dig and skank up some front end destroying cold patches and leave it for the next four years.

17. from the comments…put a Canadian flag on it and it’ll be removed immediately…or write something in English on it

18. Nothing surprising – here in BC we have hydrants and power poles on the road surface in my town.

19. Equalization $$$ from the WEST hard at work.

20. The pole on the left, and the trees, are almost as dangerous.
    It used to be that, in rural France, trees grew right up to the edges of the roadways. It may not have been intended as a means of population control, but it sure worked that way.
    A friend of my Dad’s wrapped his nice neat sports car around such a tree, back when my Dad was at SHAPE.

21. Reminds me of a house I bought in France. I bought it when it was just a hole in the ground (which is another story…) and watched as it was built. The builder didn’t actually build anything, just used the cheapest contractors possible for each part of the construction.
    One day, I saw that shutters had been fitted to the windows. They were left open, clipped back against the wall.
    A couple of days later, the contractors installing the gutter and drainpipes did their work, and ran the drainpipe down in front of the open shutter.
    I had to whine and complain a lot before the builder agreed to recall the contractor to fix this.

22. @John Lewis: “It used to be that, in rural France, trees grew right up to the edges of the roadways”
    But it’s so picturesque, tourists love it.

23. I laughed at that picture. I note that there are two poles, one in the center of the road and one just off the lane. And both well marked with reflective tape (sarc). There is a saying in Texas that that applies: if you don’t know the trail you ought not be riding it.

24. Ah, Quebec. Only in Quebec.
    Quebec is where the road signs are dangerously wrong. I mean that. The road ahead will go into a steep curve but the road sign posts it as straight. In winter, in a white-out, with this road running beside steep hills that you can slip off, if you think it’s straight but it’s a sharp curve, you can fly off the hill.
    Those poles? How about dealing with them in fog or blowing snow? Both weather conditions are frequent in Quebec.
    And why wouldn’t the contractor of either the pole or the road be the one to inform the Ministry?

25. i’m not an apologist for this goofy example of the left not knowing what the right is doing; but i would like to see less (read a lot less!) of this stuff in the future.
    guess what? i’m not holding my breath.
    this particular little foo-fa-rah will apparently (so we are told here in la belle province) be ameliorated within the next few weeks.
    thank goodness no public funds will be wasted in the fix
    off with their heads!