You know you're an engineer when...

You know your an engineer when you drive trains...

_I_ own the road!

Anyone who drives a rusty old 4x4 with an I-beam for a bumper and a little sign in the back window that reads "Yield right-of-way to vehicles with no brakes" always goes first.

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Not much use having a sign in the back window if said truck is behind you. It would be much better in reversed text on the front so you could see him in the rear-view mirror.

In our sub-division we used to ride the "Big Wheel" trikes down the hill and do spin-outs at the bottom, and then go back up for another. The guy that lived on the corner house at the bottom of the hill used to come out in the street, trying to stop us, and claimed that he owned about 8 feet out in the road. He even called the cops on us once.

His kids were pretty stupid too. His name was "Chard", and I think his brain actually was.

Regina something.

All you characters with your silly quarter-word ports.

That has been around the block here three times in the last year.

And to further the point, it as a standard dimension with standard units at the ISO level.

It turns out that property lines can be very complex. Where i live the property line of my home actually extends to the middle of the street. The City, County, and various utilities providers have easements over those areas for such things as utility maintenance, and the city and county for road maintenance.

Not in our sub-division it didn't, and even if it did, the existence of a public road on top of "his land" means that my access was guaranteed.

We did not even own our "boulevards" (the area between the sidewalk and the road/curb) but we were 100% responsible for their upkeep.

So what jurisdictions do you live in? Some careful searches or just hunting down the appropriate local office to get the straight skinny should be easy enough.

Greater Cincinnati. Pretty much the same all through Ohio. Properties were from the sidewalk in, and the boulevard from the sidewalk to the street was county owned easement that was the property owner's responsibility to keep in good order.

Pretty similar, here in Sacramento. Actual street maintenance is city / county to do but you have to notify. Sidewalk issues are mine to maintain except for work done by city / county contractors.

When Reagan was running for governor of California a CRT rebuilder was advertising that they supported "Ronald Re-gun"