This falls under the heading of “You can’t make this stuff up!” and is a follow-on to the blog I wrote about the redundant signs on the fly-fishing building – “people don’t read ’em anyway.” There’s a covered bridge in Illinois, clearly marked “No trucks or buses” and clearance 8′ 6″…but 42 trucks or buses have run into it over the past two years. The trucks lose:

The signs are clear, but people attempt to drive trucks through it anyway…

You can see a news report or read the Wall Street Journal article about it.

Why do people ignore warnings? It’s been suggested that drivers are too busy looking at their GPS instructions on their phones to actually watch the road. But it’s bigger than that, isn’t it? Doesn’t it go all the way back to Genesis?

Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” …So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. (Genesis 2.15 – 17…3.6, NKJV)

As a famous comedian once summarized:

God said, “Don’t eat the forbidden fruit.” And they said, “Where is it?!”

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. (Proverbs 14.12, ESV)