The horror of the PA Turnpike
Posted by ksharbaugh on Wed, 2008-06-18 00:05
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Seems about right. The movie generally looks like it was inspired by pavement.
Shamlamadingdong needs to stop making movies and soon. He's become a total joke. D:
That said, the turnpike really isn't that bad! I find once you get beyond Philly city limits, for most of the middle part before pittsburgh? It's absolutely beautiful. I don't know how it'd be the basis of a horror film.
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permalinkOh they'll turn any topic into a horror film. Clowns (Gacy), little plastic dolls (Child's play), politics (Bush's swearing-in ceremony), making a phone call (Phone Booth), your average redneck (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), driving in the south (Deliverance), "vacations" to "small towns" (Silent Hill), camping out in the woods (Blair Witch Project), European vacations (Hostel), spoiled little girls (The Exorcist), new house jitters (The Amityville Horror), swimming at the beach (Jaws and Orca), fog (The Fog...go figure), wishing wells (The Ring), nighttime (Pitch Black), really horrible actors that shave their heads (Pitch Black), avians (The Birds), giant Amoebas (The Blob), 15 minutes ago (The Langoliers), monkeys (Outbreak), farming (Children of the Corn), yatta yatta yatta. And those are just the ones I can find with a quick search on Yahoo.
-Estimated six so far. Let's hope it doesn't go higher!
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That's odd, because I always see fun things like this on the PA Turnpike:
Best part: it was taken in 2004 while traveling to Pittsburgh for the initial site visit at the Westin and DLCC.
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Maybe it was a good omen? The signs were everywhere.
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Two years ago while returning from AC, there was a backup at the Allegheny Mountain tunnel and I sat in place next to the Oscar Myer Weinermobile... lots of waves, but no free hot dogs... darn.
BTW. the turnpike used to have three additional tunnels, they were bypassed in the 1960s because that was cheaper than trying to enlarge them. They were the Ray's Hill Tunnel, Sideling Hill Tunnel, and Laurel Hill Tunnel. A bicycling group is trying to re-open Ray's Hill and Sideling Hill as bike paths, and Laurel Hill has been converted into a wind tunnel for testing race cars!
Jovina
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permalinkI've ridden a bicycle through those tunnels. Boy do they get dark, even with an LCD head lamp!
Greyse
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permalinkLocation: Yo, Philadelphia!
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The PA turnpike can be terrifying. Several times last year on the way to AC I'd look in my rear view and all I'd see would be the grill of a giant truck! It looked like it was trying to eat my car.
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permalinkLocation: Right near Pittsburgh, PA!
Yeah, i'm sure the construction got to him.
Probably why there were tons of cars used in the film
(and many moments of bad driving and block ins/traffic).
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And I thought the tollroads in Houston were bad enough. And with Houston (and the rest of Texas for that matter) just getting bigger and bigger, better brace up the drive in times. I wouldnt think it would be that bad up there in PA.
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*Charline de Lyon, the Evil One, comments* I thought "The Happening" was a comedy.
People killing themselves in such amusing fashions! Eee-hee! Good fun! >:3
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permalinkLocation: Deleware
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You know the Movie title "Coloverfield" is actually a name of an exit the director took everyday to work from the highway :3
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I ran into furs at every rest stop in my 5 hour turnpike ordeal on the way home. Awesome. We all have the same bathroom schedule.
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As a side note, look out next year all you furs who speed on the turnpike. My cop car and I will be waiting... watching...
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