Let the state waste money on that kind of thing! was the local view when it came to marking roads [for visibility in snow and other bad weather], so much so that it sometimes seemed possible that highway superintendents owned tow-truck companies and operated like the wreckers on the Cornish coast, who used to lure ships onto the rocks with false lights, then pillage the wrecks. On the other hand, it may also have been a combination of stubborn conservatism and stupidity, neither of which was in particularly short supply.
- Michael Korda, Country Matters, p. 191
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