Apparently, according to a local "rural New Mexican", the whole "there's 100,000 bottles of beer on the road" thing might be because of the ammunition shortage (from Obama getting elected, Obama getting re-elected, the US Armed Forces buying 1 billion rounds per year, what with all of our ongoing wars - and training for our next invasion "things")
So instead of shooting (tagging) all the signs along the highways and byways - people (men only?) are throwing their empty beer bottles at the signs - leaving modern-day middens underneath, beside, and in "the debris lane" near, road signs.
"It's a cultural thing"
Well, we figured we'd be getting some culture while we biked across the American Southwest - we just didn't figure we'd be getting so much of it in our tires.
Well, I saw those bottles on the highway when I visited there and Bush was president, so I challenge that theory.
ReplyDeleteYeah, sorry Shawn.
ReplyDeleteThat was meant as a tongue-in-cheek poke at a conflation of several different local realities; with a certain truthiness to it, at best.
There are bullet holes in just about every sign and diorama here - which makes me believe that there is no shortage of ammunition.
And some of the empty beer bottles on the sides of the roads certainly look older than Obama's first term...