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Dead Raccoon Painted Over By PennDOT Work Crews

Dead Raccoon Painted Over By PennDOT Work Crews

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (TheBlaze/AP) — The “squirrelly” configuration of a western Pennsylvania road helped cause a state road crew to paint a double-yellow line over a dead raccoon.

Motorcyclist Sean McAfee snapped a photo of the mistake before it could be cleaned up and submitted it to the Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown.

“When I saw it, I almost wrecked my motorcycle because I was laughing so hard,” McAfee told the paper.

He says he almost crashed, he was laughing so hard.

PennDOT spokesman John Ambrosini says paint crews usually have a foreman on the job who clears away any dead animals before the paint-spraying truck equipment passes by. This crew didn’t have a foreman and the equipment was too big to turn around in traffic, remove the animal and repair the paint. He says the “the squirrelly geometry” of the narrow road didn’t help.

We’re unsure if that was a pun.

Read the rest at the Blaze

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