Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site tellab3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!tellab1!tellab3!steve From: steve@tellab3.UUCP (Steve Harpster) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Color of Fire Trucks Message-ID: <194@tellab3.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 19:48:36 EDT Article-I.D.: tellab3.194 Posted: Thu Sep 27 19:48:36 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 07:35:10 EDT References: <> Reply-To: steve@tellab3.UUCP ( Harpster) Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, Ill. Lines: 10 Summary: They are chartreuse in St. Pete, Florida too, however the city voted last year to painting the new ones red again. It was once thought that chartreuse was easier to see at night. Now they realize that it doesn't make that much of a difference --- especially since most of the people in St. Pete are over 65 and half blind anyway. Thank God I was able to escape in time! -- ...ihnp4!tellab1!steve Steve Harpster Tellabs, Inc.