Sauce: A dangerous post.

You know those posts that stand in the middle of walking trails, to prevent motorized traffic? Your dog always goes around them on the wrong side.

They’re usually yellow, or orange, sometimes greenly unobtrusive. They’re easy to run into if you’re not paying attention. They’re something I’ve generally thought of as a mild annoyance, barely a hazard.

Until now.

Now I know they are equal in danger to a nuclear power plant, or perhaps crawling inside a microwave for a hot ten seconds.

How do I know this, you ask me? (No, I did not hit one while driving at high speeds on a pedestrian-only walkway.)

While on my road-trip, I encountered one (while walking...what kind of monster do you assume I am?) that was plastered over with official Warning stickers. There were two, and they read, simply:

Warning: Deformities

And

Warning: Cancer

I tiptoed from the scene, and since the stickers did not say exactly how the post would increase your risk of contracting either of those conditions, I have been waiting with trepidation, in case just walking by is enough to trigger something.

Maybe it’s only dangerous if you eat it.

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