One bus trying to negotiate a left turn on a snow-covered street fishtailed, swiping down a light pole on a sidewalk.

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The taxi drove onto to the sidewalk in an apparent attempt at evasion, he said, coming to stop between a traffic-light pole and a food store.

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That helps it differentiate a pedestrian from a light pole.

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Statistics are like a light pole for a drunk.

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"I do not endorse actions that move Boston and our nation into a police state mentality, with surveillance cameras attached to every light pole in the city, " Commissioner Edward Davis said in prepared remarks for the House Homeland Security Committee.

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The best you'll be able to do is hang on to a light pole, and while you're hanging on, the fire ants from all the mounds -- of which there is two per yard on average -- will clamber up that same pole.

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Just today, because I walked with the urban wildlife expert John Hadidian, I noticed that a pipe affixing a traffic light to its pole was hosting a slew of nesting sparrows.

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Then she grabs two ski-pole-like handles, presses a button and waits as beams of light trace over her body.

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Subramaniam Badrinath was bowled by a superb Steyn off-cutter that knocked back the off pole and VVS Laxman flashed at one off Harris that flew past slip for four, before bad light ended proceedings for the day, with the match fascinatingly poised.

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