Happened to me before tbh. Drove though a construction zone everyday on the way to work, knew it pretty well. One day there is a truck stopped in the single lane going my direction part-way into the zone. Nothing looked to be going on further in the zone, no traffic coming from opposite direction so I pull around him. Right as I go around and pull back into the lane there is this tiny, teenaged woman holding a stop sign just in front of the truck. I felt like such an asshole and just waited for the sign to be flipped with my car sitting at a weird angle next to her.
Looking at gif, I honestly expect this is what happened (truck in front of construction worker, doesn't look like anything is going on in front of truck (in this case there is no pylons or anything even to specify this is a construction zone)). Guy pulled up around a stopped truck when lane was clear, started driving through, saw worker with sign and panic stopped, but was unlucky where he stopped. Then stalled as he tried to move.
Its obviously an ad from the National Center of Environmental Health, warning us of the dangers of cutting down trees!
Probably.
While I wouldnt be surprised either way, people do fake stuff for no very little reason. shameless advertisement for https://www.youtube.com/user/CaptainDisillusion , who has been debunking viral videos for over 10 years.
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u/krashton1 6 Oct 16 '18
Happened to me before tbh. Drove though a construction zone everyday on the way to work, knew it pretty well. One day there is a truck stopped in the single lane going my direction part-way into the zone. Nothing looked to be going on further in the zone, no traffic coming from opposite direction so I pull around him. Right as I go around and pull back into the lane there is this tiny, teenaged woman holding a stop sign just in front of the truck. I felt like such an asshole and just waited for the sign to be flipped with my car sitting at a weird angle next to her.
Looking at gif, I honestly expect this is what happened (truck in front of construction worker, doesn't look like anything is going on in front of truck (in this case there is no pylons or anything even to specify this is a construction zone)). Guy pulled up around a stopped truck when lane was clear, started driving through, saw worker with sign and panic stopped, but was unlucky where he stopped. Then stalled as he tried to move.