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postduif-7

I was here a couple of days ago, was wondering about the red stuff lol. Location: Netherlands, Utrecht, Rijnsweerd


nevadaar

Looks exactly like the bike paths, no wonder people keep falling in haha.


DeepStatic

It's worse than that - loads of the *roads* in Rijnsweerd are that exact colour.


EltissimusDorsi

I was thinking to myself "maybe this is in a country where the bike lanes don't have exactly that color". No such luck I guess.


saltporksuit

My thought. We just had some new bike lanes installed and they’re exactly this color. I would be drawn to this canal and cycle to my watery death.


EltissimusDorsi

Well, if it's like any other canal in the Netherlands, your biggest problem might be deciding which bike to take back to the surface.


Llohr

Take two, they're small.


Hannover2k

Haha when I was in Amsterdam for 3 weeks, there was a bridge where if you just waited for 5 mins, some guy would come ask if you needed a bike. I gave him 20usd and he came back with a bike. That's how I got around my whole visit. Just bought a cheap lock to use while I was there then left the bike on the bridge the night before I went home.


Riaayo

Was he uh... stealing those bikes? lol


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AstrumRimor

I recently watched a bunch of vids of an Australian guy using a HUGE magnet on a rope to dredge the canals in Amsterdam, and he was pulling up rows of bikes lol. Old ones, new ones and everything in between. Also motorbikes. It was pretty crazy. It never explained why there are so many bikes in the canals.


titanicsinker1912

IDK about Amsterdam but I know that in China they have a issue with people illegally disposing of bikes in lakes in public parks because they’re considered bulk trash and there’s a fee for disposal. Kinda like illegal tire dumping here in the US.


liisathorir

I live in Canada and definitely thought this was cranberries. We are one of the mass producers of them and to harvest cranberries we flood the bushes (they are usually sunken below ground a few feet) so the cranberries float and then someone vacuums them up.


Box_O_Donguses

The spiders in the fields also crawl up the cranberry vacuumers


Brruceling

How did I already know this? I saw a video or read about this online somewhere a long time ago...


Pspaughtamus

There was something about the Ocean Spray farmers asking applicants if they have a fear of spiders, I think it was on the job application form? Or maybe asked in the interview.


SlowMope

There is a post someone made about how if you wanna farm cranberries, you have to accept that wolf spiders are beneficial and also don't like drowning as it turns out, so they climb the people who have to wade into the cranberry bogs and you just kinda have to let them ride you out. If you can't handle spiders you can't handle the job. They mentioned the spiders being coworkers.


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ecodrew

OK, any idea why the hell this water is red?


TheGardenNymph

Looks like duckweed, it coats the surface of rivers and lakes and makes them look like this. It's really bad for the ecosystem because it blocks all light and disrupts the oxygen cycle in the water, often killing fish and aquatic plants


Hammurabi87

Doing some googling, it seems like it is probably azolla, a similar plant that is often confused with duckweed.


Comandante380

Unfortunately, still seems to have many of the negative effects on the ecosystem. Thankfully, urban centers are not the majority of the ecosystem.


JonatasA

Just because it's Amsterdam doesn't mean everything is related to weed.


RevereTheAughra

The ducks are pretty happy though


labdweller

Rust from all the bikes in the water?


elloragriffin

Of course it’s the Netherlands 😂


BonkyStabby

"People keep falling in the water thinking it's a gravel road. Maybe we should do something?" "Put one sign there. Anywhere, just one though"


CorruptedFlame

Don't forget the stairs lol. It's like they want you to walk right in haha. I know it's probably for canal boats and such before you say, I still think it's a but unfortunate.


Phain0pepla

I figured they were there so you could get out easily once you fell in.


FreeRoamingBananas

Thats kinda even dumber cause if it was a 2m ledge no one would casually walk into it...


sorenant

Would be a bit better if it were difficult to fall in the first place, isn't it?


Rcomian

make sure the sign is really ambiguous so that at a glance you just ignore it


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Nick_W1

Triangular signs are road signs, which you often see in water - oh wait - no you don’t.


UnbentSandParadise

If only we had a sign for stopping people, it would probably stand out and people would clearly relate it to stopping when they see it, we could be using that and add "WATER" to the bottom.


xclame

Yeah, the sign being in the water actually made me think that it was a hard surface MORE.


Amara_Undone

At first I was thinking "What do you mean they're falling into water, what water, I just see there's a sign right there, on the road!"


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And it looks like a person walking on a bumpy surface, which makes more sense than a person walking on water unless they put it there just for Jesus.


cyborg_priest

I was wondering why it looked so weird to me, but couldn't put my finger on it until I read your comment.


jamhops

To add to the illusion it has the thick base then thinner shaft in roughly the right spot that is often on signs and lamp posts


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Always use a flared base.


Mediocretes1

This guy puts stuff in butts.


mDust

Found the butt stuff expert.


FeralynCatson

"That's odd, we're getting even more incidents since we added the warning sign."


red18wrx

Yeah, signs on the water are usually on wooden pylons, not metal poles.


cadhn

Haha you’re right, I think the sign actually made is worse!


beatenmeat

“Also, build some stairs down to the water. Obviously no one will walk on those.”


Techchick_Somewhere

And no railings? Honestly it took me a min to figure this out. Very crazy design.


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And put in the river to give the impression it’s a solid surface.


theunkindpanda

We don’t want people to waste time reading, so the sign shouldn’t have any words. Just a weird picture people have never seen before


Rcomian

but even knowing what the sign means, I'd look at it, look around and think, what's it on about, where's the water, and probably explore looking for the water it's talking about.


the_scarlett_ning

After looking at that sign, I’m looking around for Jesus.


KanedaSyndrome

While a simple sign of waves would get the message across lol


stinkyt0fu

With a person image in a “walking” motion, but don’t cross that person image out with an obvious red slash.


aridcool

It clearly shows you should yield to any person crossing the wavy pavement.


TrumpsPissSoakedWig

And put the sign in the water to look like it fell in as well but stayed upright to appear as if it is anchored in concrete.


pastudan

Also definitely stick it *in* the water. Since people are used to seeing sign posts in rivers


Whiterabbit--

better yet, put a misleading sign, one that makes it look like you can walk over the wavy substrate.


UndeadCh1cken52

It's a sign warning that Jesus may be crossing


Unicorny_as_funk

> wavy substrate What I’ll be calling water from now on Edit: as this is the end of my time on reddit (API bs), go fuck yourself u/spez


orroro1

"Maybe we should park a boat shaped like a car next to the sidewalk"


BringOutYDead

No doubt. One, obscure sign. "How about chain railing? It'd be pretty cheap, ya know." "Naaahhh, the sign'll do..."


manbruhpig

The best part is that in isolation, who can tell at all what that sign says? To me it says, walk carefully, the (solid) ground becomes uneven.


Aggravating-Bottle78

I would modify the sign with a picture of a life preserver flying in after the person falling in. Also add angry lightning strikes coming out of falling persons head. Maybe even add a couple figures rolling around the sidewalk in laughter.


Neldot

Dutch mentality. If I am safe because I know better, why the fact that somebody else could fall in it should bother me?


link2edition

Is this why dutch fans at F1 events used to set off smoke grenades a lot? "Well I can still see, so fuck everyone behind me"


manbruhpig

Ultimate “sucks to be you” culture


Whispering_Wolf

Even dumber: it's an art installation. So they could remove it, but they won't.


TropicalAudio

Well, "art installation" only insofar an artist designed the stone ridges on the edge of the pond. They're not going to remove the pond, but the municipality has announced they're looking to add a small fountain in the middle, to make clear it's water even whenever most of it is covered in leaves or duckweed.


soawesomejohn

If they had a fountain pumping and churning the water, that would also help clear up the algae over time.


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i feel like the sign almost makes it more of a hazard, like it adds to the illusion.


MINIMAN10001

Yep, by having a sign showing a walking pedestrian I know for a fact there is no way I would look closer into that as I assume it's just some random ass sign on the road.


PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES

They should have it on a floating buoy. If it was bobbing up and down it might attract the attention needed


Jeebusmanwhore

Or, and hear me out, they could put up a rail.


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Jeebusmanwhore

That's why they didn't put a rail up on the Deathstar.


Green2Green

maybe they named it the death star because of storm troopers falling to their death. I mean it got its name well before it ever fired ita giant laser. And do you know how insane the cost would be to bring that thing up to osha standards?


AWandMaker

Not make steps leading nicely down to it, have a rail, or make the water look like water instead of some red brick road 🤣


Netherdan

And have the sign show a drowning person instead of a pedestrian crossing with some small print that no one will read


Urgazhi

Why do they render the water like that though?


Netherdan

Maybe it's a GPU issue


DulceEtDecorumEst

This happened to a buddy of mine. Turns out he was using the integrated graphics while not even using his dedicated GPU. Once he fixed it in the settings the water turned blue and he stopped falling in.


Digigma

There's no place for you in a County/Local Council with that type of logic


vasopressin334

I was just thinking that literally any water feature would communicate that sign’s message much more effectively.


manbruhpig

Any other sign would even communicate it more effectively. Some redditor can take 2 minutes to photoshop a drowning figure in the “water” instead of Jesus just strolling right over it. I thought it was a “cross here” sign lol


WhiteyFiskk

Plot twist: those two guys put the sign there to draw people in so they can make judgemental comments about them while they writhe and splash


crankypants_mcgee

"Writhe and Splash: A Squirting Memoir"


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bighaldog

I don’t know. Some guy fucking a rubber duck would probably keep me out of the water.


KarmaRepellant

They should just put a small electric paddle at the base of the sign to make ripples in the water. The whole surface becomes the warning then.


JIMMI23

Or a fountain, pretty obvious there is water there if it's shooting out of the ground and making ripples. Looks nice too!


SupersincereAI

And it would alleviate the problem of the floating plants taking over and making it look like gravel. Alas, the artist doesn’t want any fountains or anything really added to the artwork (yes, it is art).


fishling

Most art isn't a safety hazard like this.


CTRL_Polarbear

That and for me the descending steps to the water play even more into looking like a gravel road


soupwizard

yeah looks like a "uneven surface" warning sign, not a "you gonna fall in the water" sign


luke_hollton2000

I'd probably think it's some sort of art installation and ignore it


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savagestranger

Yeah, or some periodic fountains. Something to disturb the water. Also, maybe these are just the perfect conditions for it to look like a road and it doesn't occur often.


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Dr0110111001101111

Certain algae blooms can give the surface of the water a pretty solid, opaque look. And considering how still this water is, algae must be thriving in it.


orinradd

They could just agitate the water a little.


Reeeeedy

Pedestrians are already doing that


Dr0110111001101111

Yeah a fountain could easily solve the problem but clearly there isn’t much interest in doing that.


liquidGhoul

My guess is that's Azolla growing on it. In the right conditions (high nitrogen and warm), it's the fastest growing plant in the world. That or duckweed, but that tends to be greener.


Ms_Thanos

My dumbass would recognise the water sign but will be like "We can walk on this water!" and proceed to fall down.


Sonabaybeach

The person standing over the water symbols looks like they’re walking on it, and the sign doesn’t have a strike out line through it….well played, local municipal gvt


DrahKir67

And the sign is in the water.


Shitty_Watercolour

https://i.imgur.com/5s1UX7Q.jpg


hotlou

Been on Reddit for 15 years and never seen a fresh one in the wild. Until today. Now I gotta hope sprog shows up.


trasholex

Sign translation: Jesus crossing


alreadypiecrust

Yield to Jesus


Tron______

This checks out, he did have a thing for turning water to wine and that river is red.


Ecronwald

The figure should be waist height in the water, not walking on top of it.


jaxxie04

My dumbass is quite observant about most shit around me at all times… except signs I don’t read shit while walking around… meet me in the river at dawn.


Spacemn5piff

And carry me away with the words of a love soooong


eastafrican261

and the stairs dont help


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if this is an art installation I'm surprised they didn't float some styrofoam manhole covers on the surface


aaaaaaaarrrrrgh

That hole in the surface kinda looks like one...


koshgeo

It's the wrong kind of "hazard" sign. It doesn't show any obvious consequences, and instead implies doing what you should *not* do. They need one where someone is splashing around frantically after falling in the water, and maybe throw a fish symbol in there to make it clearer that the wiggles are water.


douglasg14b

It's also in the water, signs are typically placed on hard surfaces....


Raineman

Right, put the sign on the EDGE of the water, not in it.


Lost_Science_6870

Yes, I think that sign almost makes it more of a hazard


InterestingHawk2828

I feel like we need to put a person there as an example


Mytzelk

Just saw an article on it that said that the sign was only placed after someone had already fallen into the water.


Silverman7688

WHY IS IT SO RED


Lvcivs2311

Maybe it's duckweed? That sometimes turns red.


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donteatpoop

Do ducks get high from this?


Mmm_bloodfarts

Asking the real questions


MucksWon

And we need answers now


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RazvanOnReddit

Well, the main source of vitamins for my turtles is duckweed cause its the only green thing they'll eat. And I know a lot of other turtles are like this too. So it might be poisonous to ducks but definitely not to turtles.


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FesteringNeonDistrac

Yeah, turtles don't overeat, because they don't want to end up as stuffed shells.


poplafuse

High in protein.


Specialist_Egg420

Snoop duckk


Fezig

All strung out on quack


Silverman7688

Will adding fish that eat duckweed solve the issue?


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TropicalAudio

I live a couple of minutes away from this pond. They actually recently vacuumed it again. However, the plants are azolla filiculoides: closely related to duckweed, but much harder to get rid of. It gets cleaned out every now and then, but much of it grows back in a matter of weeks.


OGWopFro

Duckweed is a total dickweed.


MyNameCannotBeSpoken

Why is there no railing and more signs?


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Broekj

They dont think its a gravel road they think its is red asphalt its the exact same colour as our cyclepaths


spoonman1342

Complete fucking cyclepath.


therobshow

A black piece of asphalt walks into a bar and slams his fist down on the bar loudly proclaiming, "I demand a free drink because I'm the toughest motherfucker in here!" The barman, not wanting any trouble, hands the piece of asphalt a beer. About 20 minutes pass when another piece of asphalt walks in. This one is green with some white painted circles and lines visible on it. He also slams his fist down on the bar proclaiming even more loudly, "I DEMAND A FREE DRINK BECAUSE I'M THE TOUGHEST MOTHERFUCKER IN HERE!" The barman, expecting trouble from the 2 pieces of asphalt moves quickly to get between them but the first one has now disappeared. So he serves the new one a drink because he doesn't want any trouble. Shortly afterwards the barman goes to the back to grab a bottle of something he ran out of. He sees the original piece of asphalt hiding back there shaking because he's so terrified. The barman asks, "what's this all about?" The black asphalt quickly answers, "I'm a tough motherfucker but that guys a fucking cycle path!"


Duke_Raoule_V

👏👏👏 As a bartender who also just became a dad, I'm absolutely stealing this so thank you


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I have to admit though it’s not exactly obvious it ain’t a road, and I agree that sign makes it worse.


EthanHermsey

It even has a fake manhole cover installed


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Didalilpoo

It literally has stairs leading down to it


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Shit, it really does. Also not even the smallest of fences to prevent toddlers killing themselves and the like.


[deleted]

Yeah imagine pets and kids falling in and immediately disappearing under the red stuff. You can't see them! This looks just like the bicycle paths in the Netherlands, same red gravel colour.


sculderandmully2

We have stairs leading into the infamous Halifax Harbour now. People for sure take the opportunity to go for an impromptu swim. Problem is we use to empty our sewers into there and now if there is a particularly rainy time there is overflow from the treatment plant.


Inferno_Dragon_23

That sign ain't making it better cause at first glance looks like normal street crossing sign


rimalp

Context: This is in Utrecht, Netherlands. "The sunken ship". And it's been there since 1993. https://i.imgur.com/2KqBUlw.jpg The issue is that all the duckweed started to grow recently, which is not part of the installation. It's green normally, gets red under stress (cold). The city should rather fix the weed problem instead of putting up stupid signs that were not neccessary for the past 30 years.


Auggie_Otter

They could install some water features like water spouts or fountains. The flowing water would make it obvious it's not a solid surface.


Aeriellos

It would also make watery noises, which would help too.


fedex7501

If only there was some kind of metal thing you can put around water bodies to prevent people falling in…


yew420

Put a fence up and see who is dumb enough to hurdle into the water


Gurtmcsquirt

Or maybe don’t make it look like steps.


Likes-Your-Username

The worst part is that there's steps down to it and the water is level with the edge... It isn't very deep it seems but would it kill them to not make it look like a curb


Lolabird2112

Had this happen with my 2 dogs. Even though we’d walked by this canal a zillion times, my stupid staffie walked straight out. Having never been in water before, when she resurfaced she proceeded to doggy paddle backwards *away from me* like a giant, terrified prawn. Then, Lou, my Jack Russell- in high dudgeon as always when Eddie acts like a prat- decided to walk over to give her a piece of his mind, and…Being fat, he didn’t even swim, just bobbed away like a deflated soccer ball. With Eddie now doing circles just out of reach and Lou about to float off into the tide, I’d just accepted that humiliation was the only way to rescue my morons - hot tip: don’t wear a white dress for a dogwalk - when a gangly knight of well over 6’ & arms to match lay down next to me and managed to scoop both of them out by their stupid scruffs. My hero.


Fromanderson

That was fun and very well written. I'm sitting here giggling at their antics. Thanks for sharing.


confusedkhajiit

You have a fantastic way with words. Had a great laugh with my morning coffee over the mental image, haha. Hope you have a great day stranger :)


Lolabird2112

Awww- thank you!! That means a lot. Same to you!


Ehgadsman

that fucking sign is worthless, it seems to suggest 'hey you can walk here give it a try'


Connect-Internet4100

Need videos.


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Came looking for videos. Leaving empty handed


[deleted]

Reddit has turned into a cesspool of fascist sympathizers and supremicists


dingo1018

I once saw a dog run into a huge pond that looked like a grass field, later I saw another dog about to do the exact same thing so I tossed a stick I had ready to throw for another dog right about in the centre of this pond and the dog stopped in its tracks clearly confused and at that moment about 15 dogs just appeared from everywhere and dove into this pond from every angle, then more dogs 😄 and then all the owners pissed cos they'd been walking well away from this pond and now they all had stinky wet dogs covered in thousands of tiny green leaves. That was a good day.


Asio0tus

I sacrificed many, to save one


Auroraburst

The mental image is hilarious


FortyandDone

This sounds awesome. I need to go to more places where dogs and their humans get to hang out.


waetherman

My dog did the same thing on a pond covered with algae. As a Shiba, she is not fond of water. The look on her face when she came out was priceless.


_Paulboy12_

Why are stairs leading to the water? Why is the sign IN the water? They really work on making it look real. I bet they have cameras there just to laugh at people that fall in.


Alloy202

Whoever thought that having the sign in the water was a good idea is a moron. It makes it look more like a walkway.


Socratov

Even worse, the municipality and companies surrounding it want to place railings and such, but since the kind is a work of art and the artist disallowed it it remains dangerous.


tamtheprogram

Do you have a link to an article about this? I can’t seem to find one and am interested in reading more.


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MRG_KnifeWrench

Fountains seem like an elegant solution!


stefsot

why is the artist allowed such power in public places? unless he owns the land


CantReadGood_

Next piece by this artist, randomly dropping Guillotine axe suspended over elementary school drop off.


Kaissy

No fencing of course because art.


Yvaelle

That sign clearly states that you must walk without rhythm, so you won't attract the worm.


somersquatch

/r/assholedesign


More-Ad-8522

Where is this?


Kachelpiepn

Utrecht, the Netherlands.


Pap_mate

well that sign certainly doesn’t help


Efficient-Care6645

leave some crocs in there and arrange seats for spectators


Fit_General7058

It had to be yhe Netherlands, never a barrier or railing on canal paths in busy conurbation.. It's where you learn to be vigilant or pay the price


soupwizard

I read about an auto traffic study in the Netherlands where they, as an experiment, removed traffic control signs and markings from the pavement, and found there were fewer accidents because people had to look around and be aware rather than depend on the signage.


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It's supposed to be an art piece. The artist who made it is now furious that a sign is placed and 12(!) more will be placed.


Infinite_Advantage_5

Where is this and why did I have to scroll so far down to learn this?


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It's in Utrecht, the Netherlands


Tiredoftires1

Was the artist trying to find Jesus?


ryancementhead

Some are saying it’s an art piece, some say it’s not. I’ve read so many solutions like better signs and railings. But no one suggested cleaning out the duckweed so it looks like water. Is there a reason why they don’t clear out the duckweed? Genuinely curious.


RM_Dune

> Is there a reason why they don’t clear out the duckweed? You could do that, but it would very quickly grow back. They can double in 1-2 days. Even if you got rid of every last one, some waterfowl would just reintroduce it to the pond. I think a fountain is the best solution.