Tell no tales

[Gob]

The shadow of a street sign cast on the side of a Westcountry house has been blamed for slowing traffic down - as it appears to be that of a hanged man!



Under any other light the sign is as benign as millions of others up and down the country.



A stop sign above a 30mph zone sign crowned by a street lamp.



But under the Autumn sun, it has cast a rather Halloween like shadow onto the gleaming white cottage in the exact spot known locally as Dead Man's Cross near the junction with the Totnes rorad and the A379 to Dartmouth and Stoke Fleming.



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[MajGenl.Meade]

My mum always told me not to hang around on street corners

[Crackpot]

People need to learn the difference between hanged from and tied to.

[MajGenl.Meade]

OK. What is the difference? (Note that the shadow man's feet are not "touching" the ground but are above it)

[Crackpot]

I know who I'm talking to here but "hanged" implied dangling from and usually by the neck.

[MajGenl.Meade]

We used to hang the washing out when I was a kid - oh and for five years in SA come to think of it. "Dangling" ... yes, could be. Funny word that - "washing". "Laundry" may have been better. But is it still laundry after it's been washed? And of course a clothes hanger is not a person but the device from which clean clothes (presumably) are suspended. Yes, suspension seems to be more the word, rather than dangling. A person could be suspended on a post by ropes or nails - something like that happened quite famously once.

I thought perhaps the shadow man's head was being held in a more upright position by yet another rope.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Either hanged or hung or tied, I like it. Tricks of sunlight. cool

[MajGenl.Meade]

Either hanged or hung or tied, I like it.

You might want to give a little less detail about that, oldr.

[Joe Guy]

The image isn't someone hanging by the neck. It's someone tied to a wooden post with a long spike pushing through the top of his skull to keep his head from falling off.

[Crackpot]

Nah he's wearing one of those baseball caps with the really long bills on backward.