Most absurd VMS messages

[Max Rockatansky]

I think this is the most absurd one I've ever seen

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I saw that one all over Facebook.  I don't get what the slang is supposed to even represent?

It represents older people who know some young people slang but don't actually understand it.

Whoever wrote that ought to call the person who does the VMS messages at ADOT, at least most people understand those references.  I'm guessing "totes"  probably means "totally"  (or storage containers) but I'm lost on what "yetes"  is supposed to me. 

[GaryV]

I think this is the most absurd one I've ever seen

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I saw that one all over Facebook.  I don't get what the slang is supposed to even represent?

It represents older people who know some young people slang but don't actually understand it.

Whoever wrote that ought to call the person who does the VMS messages at ADOT, at least most people understand those references.  I'm guessing "totes"  probably means "totally"  (or storage containers) but I'm lost on what "yetes"  is supposed to me.

Dictionary.com (slang):
YEET! Yeet is an exclamation of excitement, approval, surprise, or all-around energy, often as issued when doing a dance move or throwing something.

From other usage I've seen, it seems to require relating to motion - throwing, jumping, flying off the ground, etc.

Reddit has a post that says, "But if you buckle, how do you yeet out of the car?"

[Max Rockatansky]

I think this is the most absurd one I've ever seen

[post snipped]

I saw that one all over Facebook.  I don't get what the slang is supposed to even represent?

It represents older people who know some young people slang but don't actually understand it.

Whoever wrote that ought to call the person who does the VMS messages at ADOT, at least most people understand those references.  I'm guessing "totes"  probably means "totally"  (or storage containers) but I'm lost on what "yetes"  is supposed to me.

Dictionary.com (slang):
YEET! Yeet is an exclamation of excitement, approval, surprise, or all-around energy, often as issued when doing a dance move or throwing something.

From other usage I've seen, it seems to require relating to motion - throwing, jumping, flying off the ground, etc.

Reddit has a post that says, "But if you buckle, how do you yeet out of the car?"

So there are people who go around busting into surprise dances so they can throw things while screaming "YEET?"   So the VMS is suggesting teenagers scream "yeet"  while buckling up in the car?

[Max Rockatansky]

Apparently this is a real thing.  I would have assumed someone had something wrong within them if I heard this in the general public:

So about that thread regarding not wanting kids...

[MNHighwayMan]

So there are people who go around busting into surprise dances so they can throw things while screaming "YEET?"  

I want to live in the reality where this is true.

[JoePCool14]

I think this is the most absurd one I've ever seen:



Again, it's from Reddit.

EDIT: After reading the Reddit thread, I saw it's from Utah.  I went to the Utah traffic website, and sure enough, it's there.

I think this one takes the cake. You cannot get any worse than this.

[Mr. Matté]

I think this is the most absurd one I've ever seen:



Again, it's from Reddit.

EDIT: After reading the Reddit thread, I saw it's from Utah.  I went to the Utah traffic website, and sure enough, it's there.

I think this one takes the cake. You cannot get any worse than this.

[wanderer2575]

Thank you, MDOT, for advising us of travel times via a freeway we can't access.

[1995hoo]

So there are people who go around busting into surprise dances so they can throw things while screaming "YEET?"  

I want to live in the reality where this is true.

Watch for a thread about it from bandit957.

[jeffandnicole]

So there are people who go around busting into surprise dances so they can throw things while screaming "YEET?"  

I want to live in the reality where this is true.

Watch for a thread about it from bandit957.

Unless yet was a thing 30 years ago in his school I doubt he has any stories about it!)

[1995hoo]

I don't really want to put this in the "absurd"  category because I like the message, but this is the correct thread.

I-66 this morning. VDOT getting into the World Series spirit.

[Big John]

Near Milwaukee:

HOCUS POCUS
  DRIVE WITH
      FOCUS

[Michael]

On Reddit a couple weeks ago, I saw this picture of the Ghostbusters VMS message that was mentioned earlier in the thread:


Here's a link to the Reddit thread.

[kphoger]

I'm lost on what "yetes"  is supposed to me. 

Yeet is yeet.

[ErmineNotyours]

Missouri lawmaker wants to end playful electronic highway messages

[US71]

Missouri lawmaker wants to end playful electronic highway messages

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=26119.0

[wanderer2575]

All over the Toledo area last night (I went out for a few-hours-long late Christmas Eve drive)...

STAY TO THE RIGHT
SANTA NEEDS THE
LEFT LANE TONIGHT

... which would seem to contradict everything we've always been told about speed limits.

[roadfro]

Las Vegas is getting into the act on non-traditional messages.

Seen on the northern CC-215 in both directions around Jones Blvd on the evening of 12/23/19:

ONLY REINDEER
CAN FLY
WATCH YOUR SPEED

[1995hoo]

I didn't get a picture due to poor lighting and traffic, but on our way home tonight, a sign on the Beltway approaching I-95 said this (or something very close to this):

SANTA KNOWS
WHEN YOU
ARE SPEEDING

[Tonytone]

I didn't get a picture due to poor lighting and traffic, but on our way home tonight, a sign on the Beltway approaching I-95 said this (or something very close to this):

SANTA KNOWS
WHEN YOU
ARE SPEEDING

HE KNOWS WHEN YOUR TAILGATING

was the rest of it, they had it up on Delaware VMS' as well.


iPhone

[1995hoo]

The one we saw didn't say anything about tailgating, and I'm sure if it had they would not have misspelled "you're"!

[Tonytone]

The one we saw didn't say anything about tailgating, and I'm sure if it had they would not have misspelled "you're"!

You're correct, I was rush typing my bad.


iPhone

[ErmineNotyours]

The one we saw didn't say anything about tailgating, and I'm sure if it had they would not have misspelled "you're"!

Maybe trying to save space, like the signs that used to say DONT WALK.

[SidS1045]

Massachusetts put this one up late last week:

IF YOU DRINK AND DRIVE
YULE BE SORRY

[tolbs17]

PUT YA PHONE DOWN N DRIVE!! I would love to see some state use that.