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"To all the construction workers: No wonder there are so many of you killed. I was coming on Frederick Street to Baltimore Street near the hospital and there was a dump truck parked along the side of the road, cars parked along side of the road. There was no sign there saying you couldn't get through the road, so I had to back all the way back out of the street and go through an alley. Why didn't they have road signs up? what if an ambulance had to come down through there and hit them?"
To the idiot who wrote this one: The reason you had to back up was probably because you were too busy trying to see what was going on to see the sign that the road was closed, and even if there wasn't a sign, the dump truck, etc. should have been a clue that some kind of construction was going on.
Those young men were working on a very well-marked project, and the accident that caused their deaths was not because of sloppiness or being unsafe. Both of those men were from our community; we loved them and will miss them dearly.
Let me tell you this: there is no construction worker on earth who doesn't want to be safe while he works. The risks involved in just performing the job are enough to deal with, let alone having to watch for some idiot motorist who wants to fly through the construction zone at 65 mph and complain because "the construction crew is blocking their road". I'd like to suggest that whomever made this a$$inine call to mail call try doing their job in the middle of a road with cars zooming around them, and see if THEY don't learn a little more respect for the work those guys do and the dangers they face daily!