lemmings

[calebh]

just found this posted on craigslist. i lol'd and thought i'd share :)

http://www.photobasement.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/lemmings.jpg

[ecd]

nice. best graffiti I've seen.

[cbdallas]

Why on Craigslist? Are they trying to sell the overpass?

[Speedzter2000]

That is too funny!:D

[OddOne]

Sad, but so true.

[calebh]

Why on Craigslist? Are they trying to sell the overpass?
it was one of the random discussion group things in the motorcycle area, extolling the virtues of riding a motorcycle. see the one guy lane splitting? lol

[pockketz]

haha

[roadster]

Never thought of it like that but they are right

[torchedmarine]

hahaha

[Badlands-4-2]

A vandal with a sence of humor.

[Tdubb]

what are lemmings?

[Badlands-4-2]

what are lemmings?

from Wikipedia:

While many people believe that lemmings commit mass suicide when they migrate, this is not the case. Driven by strong biological urges, they will migrate in large groupings when population density becomes too great. Lemmings can and do swim and may choose to cross a body of water in search of a new habitat.[7] On occasion, and particularly in the case of the Norway lemmings in Scandinavia, large migrating groups will reach a cliff overlooking the ocean. They will stop until the urge to press on causes them to jump off the cliff and start swimming, sometimes to exhaustion and death. Lemmings are also often pushed into the sea as more and more lemmings arrive at the shore.[8]

The myth of lemming mass suicide is long-standing and has been popularized by a number of factors. In 1955, Carl Barks drew an Uncle Scrooge adventure comic with the title "The Lemming with the Locket". This comic, which was inspired by a 1954 National Geographic Society article, showed massive numbers of lemmings jumping over Norwegian cliffs.[9] Even more influential was the 1958 Disney film White Wilderness, which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, in which footage was shown that seems to show the mass suicide of lemmings.[10] A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, Cruel Camera, found that the lemmings used for White Wilderness were flown from Hudson Bay to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where they did not jump off the cliff, but in fact were launched off the cliff using a turntable.[11]

Due to their association with this odd behavior, lemming suicide is a frequently-used metaphor in reference to people who go along unquestioningly with popular opinion, with potentially dangerous or fatal consequences. This is the theme of the video game Lemmings, where the player attempts to save mindlessly marching creatures (with little physical resemblance to real-life lemmings) from walking to their deaths.