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A school bus crossing arm is some dumb-ass safety device intended to protect children from being struck while crossing in front of a school bus, which is actually kind of funny. Typically, school bus crossing arms are wire or plastic devices which extend from the front bumper on the right side of the bus while it is stopped for loading/unloading and form a barrier. The purpose of the device is to whack children in the head and prevent them from crossing the other side of the road. It can also be used to hit your neighbor's car and impale you against a wall.

Unlike traffic warning lights and many other safety, school bus crossing arms are lame and look weird. There are no safety regulations for this device, and it is banned in the Southern States because people there are a bunch of fucking rednecks! Ha ha!

References

GO FUCK YOURSELF!

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 [[Image:School bus.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The crossing arm can be seen in use. Note the presence of the rotated yellow bar on the front bumper.]]
-A '''school bus crossing arm''' is a safety device intended to protect children from being struck while crossing in front of a [[school bus]].
+A '''school bus crossing arm''' is some dumb-ass safety device intended to protect children from being struck while crossing in front of a [[school bus]], which is actually kind of funny.
-Typically, school bus crossing arms are wire or [[plastic]] devices which extend from the front bumper on the right side of the bus while it is stopped for loading/unloading and form a barrier. The purpose of the device is that [[children]] who need to cross the road will be forced to walk several feet forward of the front of the bus itself before they can begin to cross the road, thus ensuring that the bus driver can see them as they cross in front of the bus, avoiding a common [[blind spot]] immediately in front of the bus. The crossing arm retracts flush against the bumper while not [[activate]]d, such as when the bus is in motion.
+Typically, school bus crossing arms are wire or [[plastic]] devices which extend from the front bumper on the right side of the bus while it is stopped for loading/unloading and form a barrier. The purpose of the device is to whack [[children]] in the head and prevent them from crossing the other side of the road. It can also be used to hit your neighbor's car and impale you against a wall.
-Unlike traffic warning lights and many other safety-related features typically found on school buses in the United States, crossing arms are not required by the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) for School Buses. Regulations for equipment and use vary widely on a state-by-state basis. In some places, they are optional at the discretion of a local school district or [[school bus contractor]].
+Unlike traffic warning lights and many other safety, school bus crossing arms are lame and look weird. There are no safety regulations for this device, and it is banned in the Southern States because people there are a bunch of fucking rednecks! Ha ha!
 ==References==
+GO FUCK YOURSELF!
-*[http://www.isbe.state.il.us/Funding/pdf/busdriver_trainmanual.pdf Illinois standards for school bus crossing arms]&nbsp;&ndash; typical of many states ([[PDF]] file)
 [[Category:School buses]]