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The Lone Ranger Theme Drives Californian’s Tonto

TO Avenue K in the Californian desert of Lancaster.

You drive, and as you drive you wheels pass over grooves cut into the road surface that play the Lone Ranger theme.

Yes, it’s the famous Rossini overture. Now, that’s driving music to drive you Tonto. Says Donna Martin in the Daily Breeze newspaper:

“I think it’s terrible because it keeps me awake at night. You can kind of tell it’s music, but it’s not any tune or notes. It’s a scratchy sound, a high-pitch drone.”

Everyone’s a critic.

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Posted: 22nd, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)