Roadsign deemed "Offensive" and removed

[mass_citizen]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/vermont-diner-takes-bacon-sign-offends-muslim-residents-article-1.1915158

Perhaps if the woman simply noted that the sign wasn't MUTCD compliant it wouldn't have set off such a backlash?   

[Zeffy]

That sign is not offensive in any manner whatsoever. Give me a break...

[Molandfreak]

Yeah. Like everyone on a diet is offended by the dunkin donuts down their street. What the fuck?

[dgolub]

That sign is not offensive in any manner whatsoever. Give me a break...

Seriously?  I've heard that there's a restaurant in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, an area with a very large Orthodox Jewish population, called Tref that has a pig as its logo.  Apparently, no one's complaining about that one.

A more legitimate complaint is whether or not a restaurant should be putting up what looks like a traffic sign...

[froggie]

You can argue whether or not the sign was offensive (personally I don't think so).  But legally speaking, it's close enough to looking like a standard road sign.  Which, in Vermont, is illegal to place within view of the traveling public.  That topic got mentioned on another thread.

[roadman65]

 I think the sign is cute.  Not offensive though, but I have seen worse.

[jeffandnicole]

There is nothing wrong with the sign.  If there's something in the road that is going to result in it becoming bacon someday, you bet I don't want to hit it!

[agentsteel53]

I am offended by this person taking offense, and demand that she be removed from the public.

[Henry]

Another example of society gone horribly wrong...

[Road Hog]

Take down a bacon sign to make one person happy, and offend thousands of bacon lovers. Figures.

Another step toward sharia? 

[roadman65]

We had a similar issue here in Florida.  An icon was removed from the City of St. Cloud because it offended a person who did not even live in St. Cloud, but just happened to pass through it on US 192.  The people of St. Cloud, which is plenty of them, had to witness it be removed just to please one out of town person.

[OCGuy81]

What's next?  People who are color blind demanding all green signs get removed?  Sorry California, you need to re-color all your state highway markers....

[roadman]

The only thing offensive I find about that sign is the fact it is advertising a private business on public property.

[ET21]

Fail

[hotdogPi]

This "Speed Limit 20" sign is offensive; I want it removed.

[mass_citizen]

The only thing offensive I find about that sign is the fact it is advertising a private business on public property.

It appears the sign still served a purpose as the business' facebook post indicates that people had previously been driving over the plantings on that island. It is almost like a case of "adopt an island" where many businesses do in fact place signs with their name in areas they maintain.

[hm insulators]

Egad. That dame should move to the Middle East, put on a burqa (however you spell that) and crawl under a rock.

[roadman]

The only thing offensive I find about that sign is the fact it is advertising a private business on public property.

It appears the sign still served a purpose as the business' facebook post indicates that people had previously been driving over the plantings on that island. It is almost like a case of "adopt an island" where many businesses do in fact place signs with their name in areas they maintain.

Point taken.  However, I personally am sick and tired of creating even more excuses for the marketing types to shill their products and services on the public, no matter how large or small the company may be.  And if people have been runningo ver the planters, then perhaps the planters shouldn't be there in the first place.

[shadyjay]

The only thing offensive I find about that sign is the fact it is advertising a private business on public property.

It appears the sign still served a purpose as the business' facebook post indicates that people had previously been driving over the plantings on that island. It is almost like a case of "adopt an island" where many businesses do in fact place signs with their name in areas they maintain.

Then there was this back in April, when the entire planting area got hammered:

http://www.wptz.com/news/vermont-new-york/burlington/traffic-circle-crash-caused-by-medical-emergency/25434758#!bKJavX

[Alex4897]

Seriously.  There's war and strife worldwide but we have to get pissy about a novelty sign depicting bacon?

Grow.
Up.

[ilvny]

I find the sign funny.  What I don't like is how the restaurant took the sign and their Facebook page down all because one person complained.

[Duke87]

What erodes my faith in humanity is not so much that someone complained, but rather that the sign owner bent over and let the complaining busybody have her way without even the slightest resistance. Listen folks, the first amendment gives you certain rights, and if you're not offending anyone, you're not exercising them properly!

On the other hand, I do have to agree that the sign should not have been there for an entirely different reason: it is advertising in a public right of way. The sign should be put back up on the owner's own property.

[jeffandnicole]

Honestly, I blame the media.  If one person complains, it should be a simple complaint with the police, or the store owner, or whatever.  Instead, the media picks up the issue and acts like the offending person is the worst idiot ever to roam the earth.  Cut the media out of it, and the sole offended person doesn't have much else to get their message out with (other than Facebook and such, but I'm sure there aren't too many people looking for "Yield to Bacon" type pages).

[Molandfreak]

Honestly, I blame the media.  If one person complains, it should be a simple complaint with the police, or the store owner, or whatever.  Instead, the media picks up the issue and acts like the offending person is the worst idiot ever to roam the earth.  Cut the media out of it, and the sole offended person doesn't have much else to get their message out with (other than Facebook and such, but I'm sure there aren't too many people looking for "Yield to Bacon" type pages).

What? Are you freaking kidding me? The world deserves to know how much of a butthurt, arrogant, uptight prick this woman is. In fact, I wish the media would have released her full name so we could publicly shame her. There was nothing offensive about that sign! NOTHING. No one should have gotten offended.

[bandit957]

Well, I do blame The Media to a large extent.