A Graffiti Artist Painted A Road Runner Tunnel On A Wall And Somebody Tried To Drive Through It
Not The Onion!
http://www.mandatory.com/2016/03/16/a-graffiti-artist-painted-a-road-runner-tunnel-on-a-wall-and-som/
According to Mirror, a man attempting to drive his Fiat through what he was thought was a tunnel instead crashed his car because it turned out to be a painting of a tunnel on a wall.
Even funnier than somebody thinking that was actually a real tunnel? You guessed it: The comments left on Imgur after one "rburn" posted the photos.
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that likes to drive 50 mph+ in a parking lot or car-park. Because that's where this appears to be. Plus, there's a yellow curb in front of the "tunnel" and the paint is still obvious that it's a painted curb (i.e., it's not like some neglected roadway yellow curbs that haven't been repainted in twenty years.)
The only thing that died was this person's sense of dignity 
I can just imagine you driving in your car heading straight for the same tunnel when your wife, seated in the passenger seat, turns toward you and yells, " Honey, look out, it's just a painting !! " But it's too late and Ka Pow! 
would be to paint in the silhouette of a big truck with one headlight on either side of the stripe (make the headlights of a reflective paint, too.) That way, stupid people won't be tempted to drive into it if it looks like a big truck is taking up both lanes and coming at them! 
I'm guessing, that not enough people watch Looney Tunes anymore. "What a maroon!" 
Or paint railroad tracks down it
kinda sad.....some have never seen a Looney Tune..
same as with anything else, including movies, TV shows, and so forth. TCM is showing old serials of the superheroes tonight, though I don't expect there will be too many younger people watching. I may look in at them later when they show The Green Hornet 
Actually, I have a harder time convincing yutes to watch anything in black and white. They'll never know the joy of:
I suppose reactions will tell us something about our fellow DUers, though. 
and the mean old Road Runner...
Chuck Jones, Warner Bros cartoon director, was signing autographs at an art store. I had bought one of the animated cells that he created and I talked to him for a while. Very nice man, signed an autograph with a nice note. He created Wiley and did some of the funniest Warner Bros Cartoons ever made. (Duck Dodgers in the 24 th Centruy, Duck Amuck, etc..) He was the director of the toons. He worked with a writer two or three animators and people who created the cells for the cartoons. What is great about Wiley is this. The story is simple. You do not need any language or interpretation. It is funny in Idaho, in Great Britian, in Austrailia and everywhere. Wiley is obsessed with catching the Road Runner and that will never happen...
My kind of fellow!!!!!!!!!
Wiley E. Coyote.....
P.S. I got about 2/3 of the great Wiley E Coyote cartoons. There were some lousy ones made by another team after Jones left Warners, but the truly funny ones are his. I can watch the original and although I have seen it many times, still laugh
...they're so good. In some of the latter ones, Wily actually talks...
on which a bus service painted the front of a bus as a billboard -- like this:
It was changed after too many complaints that the bus looked like it was coming right at you, especially after dark.
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Road Runner, when it catches you, you're through. Hey, wait a minute! The car is done for!
I never thought I'd see the day someone would be dumb enough to try to drive through a Road Runner tunnel. Or did Wile E. Coyote carjack someone to get his dinner?
[font size="5"]It's A Parking Lot![/font]
Only idiots drive fast in parking lots. They are already taking their lives (and ours) into their own hands when they zip through places with posted speeds usually no more the 5-10 MPH. It's rather difficult to get yourself killed or badly injured by hitting a wall from the side at 10 mph.
Evidence that it's a parking lot:
The parked cars to the right and back of the image.
The yellow-painted curb in front of the "tunnel."
There's another unbroken stripe running across the length of the painting's wall, and well away from the wall.
From the side, driving up to and upon it, it will never look like a tunnel. For one thing, that wall is not flat. A tunnel would look like it was literally cut into the concrete, which is not the case here. The only time it looks like a real tunnel is from the perspective of the photographer who is standing in a parking area, per the bottom-right image:
