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Started by hotdogPi, September 02, 2013, 02:48:42 PM

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agentsteel53

I remember a 1990s issue of Car and Driver which showed a photo of a HILL sign, placed about halfway up an obvious hill in an urban area (San Francisco?) that had been vandalized with "no shit".
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agentsteel53

four consecutive examples of this exist on Mexico highway 3 between Ensenada and highway 5.

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I-75 NB @ Exit 46 by MichSignalBoy, on Flickr

Unfortunately, since November 2012 (when this photo was taken), almost every freeway sign in Detroit, both Clearview and Highway Gothic :pan:, has been vandalized with similar graffiti.

formulanone

#28
I hate to give taggers, layabouts, property-destroyers, vandals, and other cretins their due, but in the spirit of the thread:







I'm sure I have more; "sticker bombing" seems to be a really common thing to do in urban parts of Florida. In closing, if you want to vandalize, make a point, like Banksy.

Edited to remove old links.

agentsteel53

took me a second to note what was wrong with that Florida.  "did someone really put a 'La' sticker on there??"

I don't mind a well-executed graffiti work (whether or not it makes a larger social point), but a quick three-second "tag" is the equivalent of my dogs pissing on a hydrant.  great, you marked your territory.  mother must be so proud.
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oscar

Route markers in rural areas of Alaska once were routinely used for target practice.  That seems to be less common nowadays, though part of the solution may have been to maintain very few route markers in rural areas (like on the Dalton Highway, which has an AK 11 marker every hundred miles or so).  Also, to put them in relatively high-traffic areas like junctions where not only the signs are most needed but also any vandals would be more likely to be caught in the act by other motorists.

It has been suggested that such sign damage is accidental, as a result of flying gravel.  But the holes are just the same as on this sign, at a rest area along the Seward Highway southeast of Anchorage, which is parallel to the highway (rather than facing one direction of traffic or the other), and about a hundred feet away.  In this instance, the bullet holes are obviously an expression of opinion about the sign:


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agentsteel53

this Alaska example appears to be intact

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kphoger

Quote from: formulanone on September 03, 2013, 03:54:39 PM
I hate to give taggers, layabouts, property-destroyers, vandals, and other cretins their due...

I recently saw an overhead BGS that had a lot of spraypainted tagging on it.  What caught both my wife and me by surprise is that it wasn't on a bridge–just a regular metal gantry.  How did they pull that off?
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DSS5

Not on the picture, but this pedestrian - http://goo.gl/maps/QDPrg - has been carrying a coffee cup since around January. Pretty fitting on a college campus.

Pete from Boston

Sticker-bombing, as you put it, was a time-honored practice in the rapidly-waning days of exact-change lanes at toll booths.  In New Jersey, the stickers over the Parkway baskets were a who's-who of local bands, whether it was the Clifton, Rutgers, Asbury, or way-down-the-shore scenes.  Every now and then I'd see a friend's sticker and it was like a high-five to throw change at it. 

oscar

Quote from: DSS5 on September 03, 2013, 10:06:13 PM
Not on the picture, but this pedestrian - http://goo.gl/maps/QDPrg - has been carrying a coffee cup since around January. Pretty fitting on a college campus.

I wish I'd gotten a picture of a similar sign on my college campus (back in the 1970s), where electrical tape was used to show the pedestrian carrying a briefcase in one hand and a gun in the other.
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DaBigE

Quote from: agentsteel53 on September 03, 2013, 03:01:56 PM
four consecutive examples of this exist on Mexico highway 3 between Ensenada and highway 5.



Lately, there have been quite a few PED XING signs around here with penises spray painted on them. Another one I've seen is changing an orange UTILITY WORK to FUTILITY WORK.
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Pete from Boston

Quote from: DaBigE on September 03, 2013, 10:54:36 PM
Lately, there have been quite a few PED XING signs around here with penises spray painted on them. Another one I've seen is changing an orange UTILITY WORK to FUTILITY WORK.

In the 1980s a friend of mine told me stories of a friend of his who had taken to amending "END CONSTRUCTION" signs with "FOREVER."


thenetwork

A long time ago, on the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, there was an orange 'construction' sign which said MEN WORKING ABOVE. 

Someone took a jumbo black sharpie and added the words: "SO FLASH 'EM".

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jeffandnicole

Quote from: kphoger on September 03, 2013, 10:04:23 PM
Quote from: formulanone on September 03, 2013, 03:54:39 PM
I hate to give taggers, layabouts, property-destroyers, vandals, and other cretins their due...

I recently saw an overhead BGS that had a lot of spraypainted tagging on it.  What caught both my wife and me by surprise is that it wasn't on a bridge–just a regular metal gantry.  How did they pull that off?

There's one I'm familiar with that they tagged the back of the sign on a metal gantry (so at least the normally visible part of the BGS was clean).  But without much housing in the immediate area, or congestion, whoever did it had to work hard to get to it.

Quote from: Pete from Boston on September 03, 2013, 10:40:28 PM
Sticker-bombing, as you put it, was a time-honored practice in the rapidly-waning days of exact-change lanes at toll booths.  In New Jersey, the stickers over the Parkway baskets were a who's-who of local bands, whether it was the Clifton, Rutgers, Asbury, or way-down-the-shore scenes.  Every now and then I'd see a friend's sticker and it was like a high-five to throw change at it. 

In most shows & movies when they show a toll lane, it's the cleanest toll lane ever.  Give Sopranos credit for showing the NJ Turnpike ticket machine as it actually existed - dirty, grimy, and covered with stickers.

DaBigE

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agentsteel53

Quote from: Molandfreak on September 04, 2013, 09:15:23 AM


http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/stop-signs-people-poop-18180035

article text as follows:

QuoteThere are some funny but dirty graffiti -- in Oregon they added a -- a bathroom humor into the streets of Portland. Somebody's been tampering with stop signs changing the first two letters. Two PN battle.

So far no word on behind little -- There is someone you'll follow that direction. Stop he -- -- it. You can damage.

was that taken directly from the press release? 
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agentsteel53

Quote from: Pete from Boston on September 03, 2013, 11:34:51 PM

In the 1980s a friend of mine told me stories of a friend of his who had taken to amending "END CONSTRUCTION" signs with "FOREVER."

that seems like the exact opposite of the other Pennsylvania staple: "buckle up, next million miles"
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1995hoo

Quote from: agentsteel53 on September 04, 2013, 10:26:00 AM
Quote from: Molandfreak on September 04, 2013, 09:15:23 AM


http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/stop-signs-people-poop-18180035

article text as follows:

QuoteThere are some funny but dirty graffiti -- in Oregon they added a -- a bathroom humor into the streets of Portland. Somebody's been tampering with stop signs changing the first two letters. Two PN battle.

So far no word on behind little -- There is someone you'll follow that direction. Stop he -- -- it. You can damage.

was that taken directly from the press release? 

If you click the link, it looks as though some sort of software was used in an attempt to transcribe the audio portion of the TV report regarding the sign. Like most such software, it didn't do a very good job.
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hbelkins

Adding male genitalia to various animal crossing signs is old hat around here.

There have been more than a few instances of people putting round red adhesive objects at the spot where a deer's nose would be on "Deer Crossing" signs, or spray painting a red nose on them, turning them into "Rudolph Crossing" signs.

Along the Mountain Parkway in Kentucky, the big guide signs have been used often for target practice. This is a phenomenon that you don't see that much on other Kentucky freeways.


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BamaZeus

For some reason, I instantly thought of this opening scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju5F-Y585YQ

Alps

Quote from: DaBigE on September 04, 2013, 09:56:09 AM
I'm surprised that isn't a certain someone's avatar...

Who, me?

DaBigE

Quote from: Steve on September 05, 2013, 12:23:46 AM
Quote from: DaBigE on September 04, 2013, 09:56:09 AM
I'm surprised that isn't a certain someone's avatar...

Who, me?

Nope. Someone else...a certain someone from Florida...
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