Wednesday, December 17th, 2008...8:13 am
Mystery Markings Always Provoke
I really like the title, "Living In Someone’s Game," over on CinciPulse.com, about the mysterious spray-painted street markings that appeared briefly on central streets recently.
Photo by Alex Bell/CinciPulse.com
Arrows, keys, and bullseyes have been spotted all over town.
For more than three weeks now, people in the Cincinnati area have been walking and driving on what essentially has been turned into one huge and curiously odd board game spanning the Ohio River.
What are these markings? Are they part of a game? A scavenger hunt? Some sort of product viral marketing campaign? It reminds me a bit of one of the earliest Make Cincinnati Weird! posts. In any case, apparently, the city has already cleaned most of them up, so we may never know.
via Just Past Central.
2 Comments
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I don’t know what it is either but it’s a damn sight more pleasant to the eyes than that moronic gang tagging.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
The Answer:
I only reason that I know this is because my father used to work on a road-crew for the Cincinnati Waterworks.
Those markings indicate underground-utilities that need to be marked before a road-crew can safely dig there.
Blue means there is an electrical-line
Yellow means that there is a gas-line
If someone doesn’t come out and mark them before a dig, there is a good chance that the road crew could accidentally dig up something important and/or dangerous.
I heard about a guy who accidentally jackhammered into a high-voltage line wile doing a water-main repair. He can breathe okay as long as nobody un-plugs him.
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