How Can You Miss This?

So the parking garage for my company has wooden bars that are there to prevent people who are not authorized to park in this parking garage from parking there. Ever since I started, there has never been an exit bar when you leave. When you drive past the thing where it is supposed to be, you can see that it works, because the little metal holder for an arm moves. So it's hooked up.

Recently, they put in an exit bar. It was a shiny new white bar that magically moves up and down when you approach it at a reasonable speed so you can exit and know that when you park in there next time, you are safe from illegal parker people.

Apparently, this long, white bar is difficult for some people to see, or they approach the exit too quickly. This exit bar has been broken off three times since they've tried to put one up. The second time, I saw the bar sitting off to the side, and the next day they had put it back in, though it was conspicuously shorter than it had been previously. Wonder what happened? It had even been hit once before it broke as it was actually lop-sided one day.

Well, when I drove past it the next, it was broken again, and while I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they try again, right now, the exit bar is gone with only its splintered remains decorating the exit "kiosk." Seriously, to break this thing off, you either have to be flying out of that parking garage or going the wrong way. Come on, people. If you see something blocking your path, the idea is NOT to hit it.