Now I want to see this as a drunk game show.
I’m not sure if the drivers or bowlers or both should be drunk.
Anyone know a Discovery Channel executive?
This would certainly be more appropriate than traps around a house.
Sorry but your story reminded me of this scene and my youth which was either me getting talked into something stupid or me talking someone else into something stupid.
It’s amazing we all survived.
Something stupid with a bowling ball.
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I’m way late to this, but I will point out that this is a repost of videos from his TikTok and if you get all the way to that, you can find a video where he shows a walkaround from multiple angles to show how visible the rock is.
The issue appears to be that the street to the right of the camera view is gated, and people pull in, see the gate, and instead of reversing, just cut the corner (over the sidewalk) and hit the rock at the end of his driveway.
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This has come up before in the context of stealth bollards: regardless of how visible the rock is generally, my bet is that it’s not particularly visible (if at all) for the people who have wrongly pulled into the gated driveway and are trying to get out (or their attention is otherwise led away from it, e.g., due to checking other lines of sight for traffic). Regardless of how noticeable the rock is in other contexts, or how plainly a driver would be able to see it as they drive past normally, if the driver can’t see and notice it at the very moment they’re looking for an exit from the situation they are in, it may as well be invisible as far as human decisionmaking is concerned.
Blame as you will; humans gonna human. A well-designed and empathetic system accounts for and accommodates human failings when possible.
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Does he show how visible it is from inside a car?
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Here’s a piece on it with more details from the Daily Mirror:
According to that, the rock was not put there to deter or damage cars turning round on his driveway, but as an expression of support for the National Health Service during the pandemic: the rock is painted blue (the NHS colour) with the letters “NHS” in white. Public expressions of support for the NHS were fairly common during lockdown — perhaps most notably the “clap for the NHS” events, where people would give a communal round of applause from their doorsteps at prearranged times — so this doesn’t seem a particularly unlikely story.
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Large Rock Placed in Driveway
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