I'm sure that the fact that I've spent the last couple of days preparing an abstract of title that involved reading 650 pages of deeds from 1900 to present has lowered my humor threshold, but this bit from a metes and bounds description made a part of a fairly recent conveyance is funny:
"278.5 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod found (distributed) for corner"
I'm not sure whether that was the work of overeager word processing software or what, but now it's in the public records for the amusement of posterity.
Obviously a pincushion.
Close, but no cigar.
Well, it's funny on two levels. Most likely what somebody somewhere in the chain of operations that produced that description had in mind was the word "disturbed" and that somehow morphed into "distributed", most likely at the keyboard of an office technician who hadn't a clue what "dstrbd" meant when used to describe a survey marker. So that's funny right there.
The second layer of humor, though, lies in the fact that the same office technician cluelessly used a "distributed" survey marker to determine the boundary described. I'm laughing right now just thinking about that one.
[sarcasm]Maybe the LS "distributed" said rod to his crew for them to set the corner[/sarcasm]
Dave Karoly came up with the plan for this
He was going to devise some sort of survey bar launcher mounted to the top of the survey chariot. All you had to do was drive near the property and the bars would be launched such that they would plant themselves precisely at the corners of the tract.