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what the heck were the bumps?

posted 17 years ago by tim-wilde-1
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Totally innocuous question of the day.

As Vega's character was driving Morgan Freeman into his affluent neighborhood and he began getting her to follow his lead in a made up song, they drove along for quite some distance and kept hitting bumps in the road every 10 seconds or so that jolted the camera. It was quite distracting, and my wife and I started wondering what the heck they were hitting on the road time and again. Railway tracks one or twice maybe, but over and over again with such frequency? And they looked like they were on a main road, so it hardly seems likely they'd be hitting speed bumps.

Anyone else notice it?

[–] carpet_seller 12 years ago

You can see road works signs at the side of the road, which sometimes coincide with the bump. They probably had strips accross the road where the tarmac was removed, after laying cables, drains or whatever.

At other times the bumps coincide with a storm drain opening in the kerbstones, so like someone else suggested maybe at these points there is a dip running across the width of the road.

I found this whole scene tedious, but the bumps didn't annoy me just made me curious.