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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI

I still can't fathom why people hit the gate arms. If you have only lived in TV for a week you know there are gate arms at the entrances to the individual villages. Maybe these drivers need to be reported to the state motor vehicle department to be called in for testing of their vision, physical and mental ability to drive a car. Maybe the next time instead of a gate arm it might be a pedestrian.

I'd bet a lot of those 'strikes' are a result of the next car in line who opts to try to get thru the gate on the tail of the car in front rather than wait for that gate to close and then open again for that next car! And other 'strikes' might be from worker vehicles with a trailer in tow where the gate goes down after the truck passes thru but then is struck by the trailer or something on it.