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Title: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: barcncpt44 on March 28, 2009, 05:13:58 PM
This is just wierd that KFC would be spending money repairing potholes and then painting their logo on the repaired pothole.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-090317pothole-kfc-story,0,406116.story (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-090317pothole-kfc-story,0,406116.story)
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: yanksfan6129 on March 28, 2009, 05:21:25 PM
Good advertising.
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: FLRoads on March 28, 2009, 06:28:59 PM
Desperate times DO call for desperate measures...
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: Bryant5493 on March 28, 2009, 06:41:29 PM
Wow! A new trend, eh?  :-D


Be well,

Bryant
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: mightyace on March 28, 2009, 07:21:20 PM
Gives public-private partnership a whole new meaning.  :sombrero:
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: Voyager on March 28, 2009, 08:22:50 PM
Every road in California is going to have a KFC logo on it.  :-/
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: yanksfan6129 on March 28, 2009, 08:37:40 PM
Those repairs are finger-lickin' good for our roads
:-D
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: Tarkus on March 28, 2009, 08:58:14 PM
The logos are apparently simply chalked on and will disappear in 10 days, even without rain.

I think it's a pretty innovative idea.  Personally, I think private funding of transport infrastructure in exchange for advertising is actually going to become a big thing here.  I'd rather have KFC logos all over the road than a toll, personally.

-Alex (Tarkus)
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: Voyager on March 28, 2009, 09:13:42 PM
Don't be too sure about that. I don't know if I'd want to see constant advertisements on the pavement.
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Post by: rawr apples on March 28, 2009, 09:28:08 PM
A world where everything is sponsored..
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: Sykotyk on March 28, 2009, 11:27:42 PM
... is a world I don't want to live in.

Sykotyk
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: deathtopumpkins on March 28, 2009, 11:34:00 PM
Yeah, I kinda share voyager's opinion... though if they're just chalked on they'd come off pretty quick and you would hardly notice. And at least it gets the potholes fixed.
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: roadfro on March 29, 2009, 12:22:46 AM
QuoteThe logos are apparently simply chalked on and will disappear in 10 days, even without rain.

According to the video on that story, as well as another video that was sent to me (where they show road crews patching and applying the logo), the KFC logos are spray-painted on.  They supposedly disappear in about 30 days.
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: SSOWorld on March 29, 2009, 12:06:25 PM
Seems like a good cause of accidents (distracted driving) :-/
Title: Re: KFC repairing road potholes
Post by: cjk374 on April 15, 2009, 09:05:38 PM
Does the Colonel have a secret blend of 11 rocks n asphalt? :-D :colorful: