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Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them?
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AC
User ID: 374174
3/27/2008 1:20 PM
Report abusive post | Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them?
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Sometimes lightpoles turn off when I walk passed them. Anybody know why this happens? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 401189
3/27/2008 1:23 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
Sometimes lightpoles turn off when I walk passed them. Anybody know why this happens? Quoting: AC 374174
sometimes lightpoles are operated by motion sensors so that they don't have to be on all the time but are useful when a vehicle or person is approaching. after you are out of it's field some of them will turn off again. |
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malu 
User ID: 401272
3/27/2008 1:23 PM
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this happens to me too, all the fricking time! creeps me out
When peaceful revolution becomes impossible, violent revolution becomes inevitable.
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking." |
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malu
User ID: 401272
3/27/2008 1:24 PM
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Sometimes lightpoles turn off when I walk passed them. Anybody know why this happens?
sometimes lightpoles are operated by motion sensors so that they don't have to be on all the time but are useful when a vehicle or person is approaching. after you are out of it's field some of them will turn off again. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 401189
this is not the case
When peaceful revolution becomes impossible, violent revolution becomes inevitable.
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking." |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 392356
3/27/2008 1:25 PM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 4136
3/27/2008 1:29 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
Samething happens to me all the time(now having lights turn on when passing underneath them in hallways inside of buildings), so much so that i'm used to it. I even tell my friends, they freak out when it actually happens. As for what causes it i don't know. I have that phenomenon and seeing the # 11, 11:11 all the time. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 401322
3/27/2008 1:30 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
thanks for the link,
i happens to me al lthe time, in fact i expect it to happen now
cool |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 392356
3/27/2008 1:30 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
Samething happens to me all the time(now having lights turn on when passing underneath them in hallways inside of buildings), so much so that i'm used to it. I even tell my friends, they freak out when it actually happens. As for what causes it i don't know. I have that phenomenon and seeing the # 11, 11:11 all the time. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4136
do you just disregard that you see other numbers too or only remember the 11s? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 176623
3/27/2008 1:38 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
I see a lot of streetlights go off as I pass, but I've never seen a lightpole turn off. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 396711
3/27/2008 1:52 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
sign of a Alien Hybrid Starseed or one that is well on their path of evolution. The bosy is emmiting higher frequencies that cause electronic equipment to go crazy and light pole lamps to turn off when you are near them. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 374174 (OP)
3/27/2008 1:59 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
I see a lot of streetlights go off as I pass, but I've never seen a lightpole turn off. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 176623
very funny. you know what i mean. ha. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 4136
3/27/2008 2:20 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
Samething happens to me all the time(now having lights turn on when passing underneath them in hallways inside of buildings), so much so that i'm used to it. I even tell my friends, they freak out when it actually happens. As for what causes it i don't know. I have that phenomenon and seeing the # 11, 11:11 all the time.
do you just disregard that you see other numbers too or only remember the 11s? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 392356
I'll give you just one of the many examples of my relationship with the #1111.
Not so long ago i was installing "Quicktime" on a laptop (IT professional by trade)to make sure the app was working. I went to the apple quicktime website to the "movie trailers" part. I randomly selected a movie which happened to be "The Last Mimzy" After seeing that trailer i absolutely knew that there is some meaning behind always seeing that number(what i don't know, but its something). Do you see what i see??
[link to www.youtube.com] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 4136
3/27/2008 2:32 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
Samething happens to me all the time(now having lights turn on when passing underneath them in hallways inside of buildings), so much so that i'm used to it. I even tell my friends, they freak out when it actually happens. As for what causes it i don't know. I have that phenomenon and seeing the # 11, 11:11 all the time.
do you just disregard that you see other numbers too or only remember the 11s?
I'll give you just one of the many examples of my relationship with the #1111.
Not so long ago i was installing "Quicktime" on a laptop (IT professional by trade)to make sure the app was working. I went to the apple quicktime website to the "movie trailers" part. I randomly selected a movie which happened to be "The Last Mimzy" After seeing that trailer i absolutely knew that there is some meaning behind always seeing that number(what i don't know, but its something). Do you see what i see??
[ link to www.youtube.com]
To Give a HINT, its at the last part of the trailer. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 180991
3/27/2008 3:04 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
happens to me as well...I notice that when this happens I am always in deep thought...almost meditative....its a frequency thing...Kenneth |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 401609
3/27/2008 7:09 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
maybe your the chosen one that's gonna save us all |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 303149
3/27/2008 7:11 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
welcome to the neighborhood. U R a slider. Me too. Bet ya can't keep bulbs for long in your house either. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 349092
3/27/2008 7:17 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
you are an indigo |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 400065
3/27/2008 7:19 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
You are a lightbeing; congrats! :-) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 310721
3/27/2008 7:22 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
Happens to me too. And they are not motion sensored. |
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Mr. Predictor 
Forum Moderator
User ID: 287257
3/27/2008 7:24 PM
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God is telling you to turn around
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 385520
3/27/2008 7:24 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
Just be grateful it isnt headlights. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 401621
3/27/2008 7:33 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
Yeah, I get bulbs blowing all the time on me as well.
Not even suprised anymore. |
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Ebug
User ID: 303149
3/27/2008 7:34 PM
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 400383
3/27/2008 7:38 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
Sometimes lightpoles turn off when I walk passed them. Anybody know why this happens? Quoting: AC 374174
It's not the lights, it the timers they're on. They have these pins that set the on/off times, and the pins wear down over time, and you get the effect you're talking about. I used to be in charge of maintenance for a campus, and we had around 200 light poles in our parking lots. It was always the timers going that caused the lights to go on and off all the time. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 326961
3/27/2008 7:46 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
You are a lightbeing; congrats! :-) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 400065 |
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John the Baptist (nli!)
User ID: 313309
3/27/2008 7:48 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
Samething happens to me all the time(now having lights turn on when passing underneath them in hallways inside of buildings), so much so that i'm used to it. I even tell my friends, they freak out when it actually happens. As for what causes it i don't know. I have that phenomenon and seeing the # 11, 11:11 all the time. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4136
Wierd, me too on both streetlamps and 11:11... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 348468
3/27/2008 7:53 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
Sometimes lightpoles turn off when I walk passed them. Anybody know why this happens?
sometimes lightpoles are operated by motion sensors so that they don't have to be on all the time but are useful when a vehicle or person is approaching. after you are out of it's field some of them will turn off again.
this is not the case Quoting: malu
this is the case
the light reflects off your big ass head and the light thinks its daytime again |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 349092
3/27/2008 8:17 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
Why is it so hard to start a story, I have things to say but dont know where to start. How about Friday night, its raining, sending a feeling of closure to the summer. It has its loss of heat, lack of comfort, and reminder that reality is about to set it with new jobs, locations, and responsibility. This is about how something insignificant to others can be a comfort to some. I am one of the some. While driving through the rain, it dawned on me that things are different and difficult right now. I have to be independent and realize that change will take time and a long time at that. So while driving, I think that things may be unfavorable, things can definitely be better that where they are right now. As I drive to my destination, I think. Think about where I am and want to be, they are far apart from each other. Its not anyones fault. But it is during this drive that I want to bring up how something insignificant can really be important. While driving with the rain, the night, and the traffic glaring its unnatural glow, I see the familiar lamp post lighting my street so I know where to go. The lamppost, looming over, hovering above every 20 feet or so, lights a step by step and never leads you wrong. While I pass them uncountable, one catches my attention. It is the one that, as I pass him, shuts off. Why? I dont know why, but he dimmedI noticedand think back to a story that I heard that brings me complacency. That story has no definite timeframe. While back in college, a long drive home from New York City took place. During that drive, a friend of mine told me of how his friend from high school was in a car accident. That car accident cost his friends life. It was a traffic collision at an intersection. Just like that, in the blink of an eye, peoples lives changed indefinitely. The loss of a life is never one to take lightly. It was heavy news to every one of his friends. When he passed away during that accident, quick, and unpreparedness, it was not his time to go. He was someone that was loved, respected, admired. Tragedy hit and no one expected it to turn out the way it did.
The intersection was like any other intersection. Traffic lights and no turns on red signs were there. The boy, with his confidence in knowing where he is going, pulled out into the intersection and was taken out by a driver that was not aware of his red light. The police and ambulance showed up and fixed as much as they could. While the boy was being taken to the ambulance and driven off, there was an understanding that he would not make it to his destination. He was clinging onto what little he had left, but since it was not his time, he gave everything he had to try to get where he wanted to go, and safely. He passed away minutes after being hoisted up into the ambulance. With little pain and suffering, he went. As he was slipping off, not ready to pass away, he left a presence in the people who helped. As the ambulance drove off, he cried from the pain, the unfairness, and went away faster than the help that reached him.
As he went away, an eerie supernatural occurrence took place. His cries resonated through the streets in which the ambulance raced through. Each corner street was a copy of the last corner. But this time, it was different. The looming lights, the lamps meant to guide you where you wanted to go, went darksimultaneously Each one, from a lamppost to a traffic light, went out. It was as if they were not willing to guide that ambulance to its destination since its cargo was not ready to travel their roads.
As strange as that sounds, it happened street corner after street corner. Letting everyone know that what they were transporting was no ordinary injuryfatality. The victims cries had now been carried from audible cries to visual changes of light to dark. It is through this supernatural occurrence, that the drivers and aides became aware of his passing, from life to afterlife. They accepted it and absorbed his ambient transformation from life to light and dark.
His passing had now been told through person after person, often adding and subtracting parts, but the end meaning is that when you see a light go off while driving; it is him making you aware that you are being watched over. When you drive at night, look around. You might see it, you might miss it, but when you do see it, you will know that someone is going to make sure you get home safe.
That is where a simple lamppost can change my mood and situation. As I drove to my destination knowing that things are going the way they are, he blinked. Then he blinked again, twice in one mile. I dont think that is strange anymore. He even blinks when I am not driving. I may be walking in a parking lot late at night and blink away he goes.
His blinks say to some that you will get home safe, and I hope that you believe it when you see him. It will put a smile on your face, a confidence in your stride. To me, it put a little more. My drive was lifted from thinking of how things are, to the realization that things will get much better and its never as bad as it seems. You need to make yourself aware of how good you have it, how good it is to have people around you that care and love you, and that it always may be a long ride home but when you get there, it is a place you feel safe, comfortable, and secure. No matter how long that road is, its going to have a happy ending.
I hope you all travel safely, and I hope our mutual friend helps you get home safe. He has with me, and I am now passing him on to anyone that sat down and read through this entire story |
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*CONSTANTLY*
User ID: 380516
3/27/2008 8:21 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
WHEN THEY ALL GO OUT AT ONCE, WE'LL SEE THE MILKY WAY AGAIN |
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SubarcticBeef
Two Legged Wrecking Machine
User ID: 221410
3/27/2008 8:25 PM
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Why do men run away and women melt when I pass them? Just kidding! About the men, anyway.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 381076
3/27/2008 8:28 PM | | Re: Why Do Lightpoles Sometimes Turn Off When I Pass Them? | Quote |
WHEN THEY ALL GO OUT AT ONCE, WE'LL SEE THE MILKY WAY AGAIN Quoting: *CONSTANTLY* 380516
We were driving back from San Antonio, heading toward DFW, and took one of the less traveled state highways. We weren't far from Glen Rose, if I recall properly. Anyway, there wasn't a street light anywhere; there weren't even yard lights. It was DARK. We were so overwhelmed by the beauty of the full night sky that we had to pull over and soak it up for an hour or so. |
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