Vandalized signs

[jeffandnicole]

Not sure what it's supposed to be, but at least they were neat about it.

[NE2]

Holy shit. That's Boehner crying.

[TCN7JM]

I once encountered a Speed Limit 35 sign on a narrow township road that someone had very neatly and carefully changed to "85" with black paint.

I've seen this as well. I'm sure it's everywhere, but I saw it near College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania. What I'm wondering is whether or not anybody's been stupid enough to follow the sign and actually try to go 85 on a residential street.

[Buck87]

Another one I've seen that's probably everywhere is adding "hammer time" underneath "STOP"

[Mr. Matté]

Yield to the hula-hooping, coffee-drinking angel.

The "coffee" I think is a piece of Velcro™. There would normally be a can of Red Bull ("<> gives you wings.") stuck on there as well. Hamilton Avenue in New Brunswick, NJ has its ped signs with the wings and I could swear remembering seeing a can on at least one of them.

[mjb2002]

Someone tagged a STOP sign with blue paint along CADLE CROSSING RD in Windsor, near where one of my crushes used to live before she got the job at SCDOT. Other signs have been hit with similar vandalism along MONTMORENCI RD in Montmorenci in recent years, my local media even did stories about it.

[dmuzika]

Some people have made their own real life modifications with some of the "Welcome to Edmonton" signs.  While the city of Edmonton is treating it as an act of vandalism, it's really well done

Pranksters take liberties with Edmonton welcome signs

The city of Edmonton was toying with the idea of new branding, but this might not be what they had in mind.

Professional-looking lettering and colouring matching the existing signs offered various slogans for motorists to read, including  "˜City of Speed Traps, "˜Road Construction City' and "˜Suck it Calgary'.

And while passing drivers may have chuckled at the references, the City isn't laughing–calling the work vandalism and a matter under investigation.

http://metronews.ca/news/edmonton/812083/pranksters-take-liberties-with-edmonton-welcome-signs/#

What used to be in that location is "City of Champions", however the city is in the process of a rebrand.

[Mr. Matté]

Per a reddit post I saw today, this is educational vandalism:

[hbelkins]

http://roadsignmath.com/wiki/Pineville

[Zeffy]

Per a reddit post I saw today, this is educational vandalism:

That's hilarious.

http://roadsignmath.com/wiki/Pineville

Well, that is a site that I would never think of in about 40000 years...

[NE2]

http://roadsignmath.com/wiki/Pineville

The squares of the first three primes. Much more elegant.

[Brandon]

http://roadsignmath.com/wiki/Pineville

The squares of the first three primes. Much more elegant.

Pythagoras is proud.

[hbelkins]

We had a "Road Sign Math" thread going here for awhile. Perhaps it's time to resurrect it. I have a whole bunch of examples that I never sent into the RSM site.

[US71]

I'm not sure vandalized is the correct word here...

Caltrans would disagree with you, but in this instance, they let Mr. Ankrom slide. 

Caltrans got the last laugh when the overhead was replaced and his "masterpiece" sent to the scrapyard.

[JoePCool14]

Anyone else here think that that was Photoshoped?

[hotdogPi]

Anyone else here think that that was Photoshoped?

No. I think it's real. What makes you think it was "Photoshoped"?

[Molandfreak]

[clipped]

Anyone else here think that that was Photoshoped?

No. I think it's real. What makes you think it was "Photoshoped"?

If it were photoshopped, they did a damn good job of it. The shadow appears to be consistent.

[PHLBOS]

The stop sign near my house at the time read "STOP CARTER."  Same unimaginative political hacks, year after years.

Circa 1979-1980, several STOP signs in Salem & Marblehead read STOP CARTER.  Only one STOP sign at the intersection of Leggs Hill Road & Loring Ave. (MA 1A) was defaced to read STOP REAGAN at the time.  Interestingly, the REAGAN part of that sign was sprayed over in red about 2 months later.

[hbelkins]

[hotdogPi]

I mentioned this in my first post, but I didn't have a picture until now.

[Alps]

I mentioned this in my first post, but I didn't have a picture until now.

I've de-vandalized several signs if I happened to have walked or biked to them, thus having the opportunity to peel away what's blocking my photo.

[SSOWorld]

in Oxnard, CA...

a surfboard or a huge joint? you decide

[thenetwork]

Several months ago, right in front of Colorado Mesa University, someone put a real nice, perfectly measured, Hawaiian shirt "sticker" on a Ped Xing sign.   By the time I got back there to take a photo, it was either removed or the sign was replaced.

[doogie1303]

Best one I know of was on RI 138 East on a hill coming up to the intersection with US 1. Theres been an orange construction sign there for years warning about a "Soft Shoulder to cry on". 

[1995hoo]

I remember for several years in the 1990s there was a vandalized LGS for Prosperity Avenue here in Fairfax County. The sign indicated a right turn for Prosperity at the next light. Someone affixed a white-on-green bumper sticker with an arrow pointing left next to the word "Clinton" and an arrow pointing right next to the word "Prosperity."

I got a kick out of the way the colors matched the sign quite nicely.