The Tokyo Sewage Commission operates two weather radars to allow them to dynamically open and close drainage pipes in response to heavy rainfall. They provide this data to the public in the form of a very useful website which shows updated rainfall maps every 10 minutes.
I happened to see the following notice on the site this morning:
If you can’t read Japanese, it says “This is accident prevention month! Our goal is to have zero accidents!”
Thank You, Tokyo Government! I had been planning on having several accidents this month; I’m glad that someone warned me about this month’s goal before this morning’s planned blindfolded drive to work…
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November 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I am sure that some pencil pushing dick came up with this idea. I mean no accident should be the normal goal of every month. Most likely, the person who came up with this had one too many accident reports he had to process last month and it got him all hot under the collar. So, this month he is taking it out on everybody who works in the sewage department by creating a whole new set of rules to follow and have the lower managers harp on the workers about safety.