Seahag1978 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 This is freaking me out! I travel home from my job on the same road every night. For 2 weeks now, when I pass under 3 particular street lights on my route, they go out when I'm directly under them. Not every one, every time, but at least one every night, sometimes two. Now, tonight one went off and one was off and then went on? It's an '86 Brat. Could it be the glare off my sunroof messing with the photo cell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[HTi]Johnson Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 That's creepy. Do you happen to pass by them at the same time, every day? I mean same time to the second. What about stopping before you go under them and see if they go out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrKrazy Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Yea that's pretty strange, I can say from personal experience that it usually takes about 2-3+ seconds of light from a spotlight to turn off street lamps (used to deliver pizzas years ago and got my kicks out of turning off street lamps with my spotlight..yea I know..weirdo). So I doubt it's the reflection off your sunroof... I would just take it as the lights are showing their love for your Brat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edrach Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Mary, Your car has nothing to do with it; believe me it's just co-incidence and if you didn't have three of them you'd likely not even notice it. These are the super bright mercury vapor lights and when they get too hot, they turn themselves off, cool down and then turn on again. We have one of these at the end of the street I turn onto to leave here and it turns itself off at least 50% of the time that I pull up to the intersection. It is creepy though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeshoup Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 I know how you feel. We have lights using the same bulb as the street lights all around my campus, and there's one that when I'd walk out of the building, it was off, then as I walk by it, it'd turn on. I was weirded out by it. Sat in my car one night watching it though, and learned it would pretty much be on for two minutes, then turn off for like 10 minutes. It was a coincidence that every time I walked by it, it came on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idosubaru Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 i thought the title of this thread was someone getting their first subaru XT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seahag1978 Posted February 17, 2006 Author Share Posted February 17, 2006 Mary, Your car has nothing to do with it; believe me it's just co-incidence and if you didn't have three of them you'd likely not even notice it. These are the super bright mercury vapor lights and when they get too hot, they turn themselves off, cool down and then turn on again. We have one of these at the end of the street I turn onto to leave here and it turns itself off at least 50% of the time that I pull up to the intersection. It is creepy though. Ahhh... it makes some sense now. I drive in 3 cities in my 3 mile trek to work and back. Your post made me realize that the freakish lights are all within the same city. So it could be the brand of lights they use. After reading DrKrazy's post, I was going to check if I had a cross-eyed headlight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samo Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 The one outside my apartment does the same thing. It seems that whenever anyone walks or drives underneath it, it shuts off, and then promptly turns back on when the "offender" is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waimaks Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 i thought the title of this thread was someone getting their first subaru XT. Mehehe, I can relate to that now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank B Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Some city's use timers to control the lights. They will alternate so all the lights aren't an at the same time but every area will be lit at some time, does that make sense? It allows all the areas too be lit enough to thwart loiterers and burgulars, but also save electricity. Double the lights, same operating cost. Also, mercury and metal halide lamps will do that if the lamp is near the end of it's service life(going bad), they will go out when they get too hot, cool off, then come back on. My money is on that. I work for a sign company that also does exterior lighting, and we see this all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtsmiths Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Sorry Seahag, you are being given bogus information. Although the part about your car not causing the outage is correct. What is causing it is the transmitter in your head that was placed there by aliens the time you were abducted. Yes, I know you thought all that stuff about medical devices and funnly little glowing 'doctors' was a dream, but it wasn't a dream, oh no, not at all. That night (or those nights, I'm afraid the borg haven't given me your entire file (yet)) is also the cause for your unconcious fear of 'intimate' relations. Just tighten your tinfoil hat and the streetlamps will quit turning off when you drive under. Oh, you're NOT wearing a tinfoil hat. Well, I guess that explains your Subaru's hesitation under accelleration and that strange self-willed cruise control, now doesn't it. $1.98 at the local superrmarket, and you'll be right with the world, except for thart second, unmentioned part of your 'problem' I'm afraid. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monstaru Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 lmfao dat wus funee brau Sorry Seahag, you are being given bogus information. Although the part about your car not causing the outage is correct. What is causing it is the transmitter in your head that was placed there by aliens the time you were abducted. Yes, I know you thought all that stuff about medical devices and funnly little glowing 'doctors' was a dream, but it wasn't a dream, oh no, not at all. That night (or those nights, I'm afraid the borg haven't given me your entire file (yet)) is also the cause for your unconcious fear of 'intimate' relations. Just tighten your tinfoil hat and the streetlamps will quit turning off when you drive under. Oh, you're NOT wearing a tinfoil hat. Well, I guess that explains your Subaru's hesitation under accelleration and that strange self-willed cruise control, now doesn't it. $1.98 at the local superrmarket, and you'll be right with the world, except for thart second, unmentioned part of your 'problem' I'm afraid. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Lucky Texan Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 This is usually caused by a refelction of the light (or a nearby light) off the car windshield or other surface 'fooling' the photo-detector on the lamp into thinking 'dawn' has arrived. I had 2 lamps near my old house that did this fairly regularly when I drove my Civic wagon under them years ago. it is freaky! Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtsmiths Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Ther ya go seahag, irrefutable proof you are being fed misinformation! The same old line about 'reflections coming from '1 Lucky Texan', an obvious plant by the aliens. I mean just look at the avatar! What more proof do you need, RUN, RUN, EVERYBODY PUT ON TINFOIL HATS, WE'VE BEEN INVADED! They picked this board to take over our minds, because they knew that any population that was strange enough to drive (and actially *LIKE* Subarus) was obviously suseptible to take over. I think the county worker in the next cubicle over is a pod person. Or maybe it's just the last 11/2 hour of a Friday before a three day weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Lucky Texan Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Ther ya go seahag, irrefutable proof you are being fed misinformation! The same old line about 'reflections coming from '1 Lucky Texan', an obvious plant by the aliens. I mean just look at the avatar! What more proof do you need, RUN, RUN, EVERYBODY PUT ON TINFOIL HATS, WE'VE BEEN INVADED! They picked this board to take over our minds, because they knew that any population that was strange enough to drive (and actially *LIKE* Subarus) was obviously suseptible to take over. I think the county worker in the next cubicle over is a pod person. Or maybe it's just the last 11/2 hour of a Friday before a three day weekend. oh - did I mention the marsh gas and planet venus? (mt - chemical recreation much?..... I keeed I keeed!) ;^) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtsmiths Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Oh no, you're not foolin' me ... I know you ain't no real human Texican, You think just because I'm in Montana I don't know about <http://www.qsl.net/w5www/marfa.html> The Marfa Lights? Next thing you'll be tryin' to convince people that was weather balloons in New Mexico. TINFOIL HATS, TINFOIL HATS ... watch out seahag, this is just the beginning they've taken over the USMB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Lucky Texan Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Oh no, you're not foolin' me ... I know you ain't no real human Texican, You think just because I'm in Montana I don't know about <http://www.qsl.net/w5www/marfa.html> The Marfa Lights? Next thing you'll be tryin' to convince people that was weather balloons in New Mexico. TINFOIL HATS, TINFOIL HATS ... watch out seahag, this is just the beginning they've taken over the USMB! don't forget the Lubbock lights (oily duck belly's my @ss!) - and the FIRST reported UFO (uh - after Ezekiel's Wheel i guess) Don't you guys remember when we left the first earth cause it was gonna be destroyed and we all got on the big spaceships to come to THIS earth but they decided not to tell the really dumb people so they just gassed them an ...uh..... oh, never mind. ;^) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seahag1978 Posted February 18, 2006 Author Share Posted February 18, 2006 Sorry Seahag, you are being given bogus information. Although the part about your car not causing the outage is correct. What is causing it is the transmitter in your head that was placed there by aliens the time you were abducted. Yes, I know you thought all that stuff about medical devices and funnly little glowing 'doctors' was a dream, but it wasn't a dream, oh no, not at all. That night (or those nights, I'm afraid the borg haven't given me your entire file (yet)) is also the cause for your unconcious fear of 'intimate' relations. Just tighten your tinfoil hat and the streetlamps will quit turning off when you drive under. Oh, you're NOT wearing a tinfoil hat. Well, I guess that explains your Subaru's hesitation under accelleration and that strange self-willed cruise control, now doesn't it. $1.98 at the local superrmarket, and you'll be right with the world, except for thart second, unmentioned part of your 'problem' I'm afraid. :cool: Sooo, you're telling me that my Brat is ACTUALLY running under its very own power and my tinfoil hat is not sucking the life out of the town's power supply? Very cool! They can't bill me for this... can they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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