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Most absurd VMS messages

Started by Pete from Boston, July 10, 2015, 12:27:52 AM

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SSR_317

It seems each state's DOT is trying to outdo each other in coming up with these catchy rhymes. Perhaps there should be a contest for the best & worst, called the "Burma Shave Signs Memorial" competition.  :D


kphoger

Quote from: roadman on May 22, 2018, 03:00:39 PM
Around here, 'bikers' and 'cyclists' are used interchangeably to describe bicycle riders. 

Your area's biker bars must look–and smell–a lot different.   :D
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

zzyzx

Seen in Austin, TX:

AWW SNAP
YOUR SEAT BELT

Proceeding:
[TX TRAFFIC DEATHS COUNT]

US71

DAD KNOWS BEST
GIVE THE PHONE
A REST

Seen along US 60 west of Friona, TX (on Father's Day Weekend)
Like Alice I Try To Believe Three Impossible Things Before Breakfast

MCRoads

You guys know there is a center text function, right? It is: ["center" ]["/center" ] (delete the "" ).
I build roads on Minecraft. Like, really good roads.
Interstates traveled:
4/5/10*/11**/12**/15/25*/29*/35(E/W[TX])/40*/44**/49(LA**)/55*/64**/65/66*/70°/71*76(PA*,CO*)/78*°/80*/95°/99(PA**,NY**)

*/** indicates a terminus/termini being traveled
° Indicates a gap (I.E Breezwood, PA.)

more room plz

6a

This was in Ohio over the weekend:

MCRoads

Quote from: 6a on June 25, 2018, 08:27:46 PM
This was in Ohio over the weekend:


Adam-4, calling a code 3 for reckless driving, vehicle is a DeLorean, silver in color, license reads: O-U-T-A-T-I-M-E, picked him up on radar going 88 mph.
I build roads on Minecraft. Like, really good roads.
Interstates traveled:
4/5/10*/11**/12**/15/25*/29*/35(E/W[TX])/40*/44**/49(LA**)/55*/64**/65/66*/70°/71*76(PA*,CO*)/78*°/80*/95°/99(PA**,NY**)

*/** indicates a terminus/termini being traveled
° Indicates a gap (I.E Breezwood, PA.)

more room plz

tribar



Cringy one from IDOT a few weeks back.

tribar


ET21

Quote from: tribar on June 25, 2018, 10:34:59 PM


Cringy one from IDOT a few weeks back.

Saw this and laughed out loud exiting at Sayre lol
The local weatherman, trust me I can be 99.9% right!
"Show where you're going, without forgetting where you're from"

Clinched:
IL: I-88, I-180, I-190, I-290, I-294, I-355, IL-390
IN: I-80, I-94
SD: I-190
WI: I-90, I-94
MI: I-94, I-196
MN: I-90

zzyzx

Found this on Instagram from the 4th...I guess this is what happens when millennials are in charge of VMS messages?

Anyone know where this was taken??


tckma

A friend of mine who was a cross-county 18-wheeler trucker said she saw those last year, and only in Utah.

Maryland used this one over the past V-Day --

TO: DRIVER
FROM: SEATBELT
I THINK WE CLICK

cu2010

Quote from: zzyzx on July 05, 2018, 02:08:35 PM
Found this on Instagram from the 4th...I guess this is what happens when millennials are in charge of VMS messages?

Anyone know where this was taken??


I saw one of those the other day in Virginia.

SM-G930V

This is cu2010, reminding you, help control the ugly sign population, don't have your shields spayed or neutered.

roadman

A friend of mine sent me one from Iowa

SURELY YOU BUCKLE?
YES & DON'T CALL
ME SHIRLEY
"And ninety-five is the route you were on.  It was not the speed limit sign."  - Jim Croce (from Speedball Tucker)

"My life has been a tapestry
Of years of roads and highway signs" (with apologies to Carole King and Tom Rush)

tckma

When I look at the simulation of all of Maryland's VMS signs, I see there's currently only one pithy rhyme.

MikeCL

CT does nothing it's all the same

SSR_317

Quote from: roadman on July 10, 2018, 11:09:48 AM
A friend of mine sent me one from Iowa

SURELY YOU BUCKLE?
YES & DON'T CALL
ME SHIRLEY
Obviously coined by a fan of the film "Airplane!"

roadman65

There was one message in Utah where some wiseass figured how to reprogram the construction VMS on I-15 to say a homophobic message a few years back.  I think that has to be the most absurd message one could ever do on a public road sign.
Every day is a winding road, you just got to get used to it.

Sheryl Crowe

Big John

^^ Or this hacked VMS in Austin TX:

tribar


tckma

"No ketchup" ??? That makes no sense.

tribar

Quote from: tckma on July 16, 2018, 07:31:17 AM
"No ketchup" ??? That makes no sense.

It's considered a sin to put ketchup on hot dogs in the city of Chicago. That's what it's referring to it.

MikeTheActuary

Quote from: tribar on July 16, 2018, 11:04:44 AM
Quote from: tckma on July 16, 2018, 07:31:17 AM
"No ketchup" ??? That makes no sense.

It's considered a sin to put ketchup on hot dogs in the city of Chicago. That's what it's referring to it.

That should read "it is a sin to put ketchup on hot dogs".  :)

Duke87

Three guesses which state this is in:

If you always take the same road, you will never see anything new.

Rothman

Ugh.  "Wicked" is so overused now.
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