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Falling Rocks in Belgium

For lack of sufficient natural cliffs, I didn't expect much variation. Indifferent to this knowledge our thoroughbred team members persevere in their search and keep surprising me with new specimen and evidence of at least some small populations. For lack of the natural habitat the Belgian rock warnings seem to survive in a more urban environment. Several finds in fact were ticked near high buildings or construction sites. (It happens in Portugal as well.)

Sometimes road-signs unwillingly expose something about the inner workings of a country. The rock-sign-plant department should have told the bus-stop people about the risk of pebbles landing on people's heads. The bus-stop find tells us how both departments work on their own without any exchange of information, or at least without listening to each other.

Signs from Belgium often carry a rather high number of stones. Although the Philippines are unbeatable, Belgium is a good runner-up, together with Ecuador, Chile and Argentina. But Belgium is also present at the other end of the scale with a sign with only two boulders!

Dinant, 1995; pict. G. Coghe
 
   
Amay (1997)   Oostduinkerke, 1995  
 
Loyers sur Meuse, 1997 Liège (1995) Brussels, X.2002;
pict. H. De Meyer
Rocks mastering the art of levitation? Odds are that the panel simply has been wrongly attached.

We have other examples in South-Africa, Iran, Armenia.

  It took us nine years to find a second two rock sign in Jordan.

Although the U.S. of A. has a textual warning sign saying Falling Rock a graphic design with one rock only is currently not known.
Read our boulder statistics.

  A German sign in the heart of the country! Let's hope it doesn't spread. As Belgium already has a road worker from the Netherlands, we should only wait for a French children's sign and then parcel out the goods.
 
Dinant, 1997; pict. P. Meire Poulseur, II.2007; pict. B. Hoeyberghs Poulseur, II.2007; pict. B. Hoeyberghs
Chute de pierres or 'falling rocks'.
 

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