I saw this symbol spray-painted on one of those big silver boxes placed alongside a railroad track. It looks too pitiful to be a “tag” and if it were it would be the first I’ve ever seen in the area. It is, however, very close to where a group of vagrants have been seen staying in the woods recently so I thought it might be some kind of hobo sign.
It’s probably not. Still, I’m curious.
It resembles the Under Armour logo, but that’s probably not what it is. My guess, someones initials, or some teen/tween ‘gang’ logo.
Hmm, looks kinda like the Anarchy symbol with a mustache and no circle around it.
It vaguely looks like the logo for Auburn University.
Based on it’s location and style, I would guess a hobo sign, too, but I’ve been surfing for a while and haven’t found one similar.
Maybe it just means gold.
I vote for tag. I think a tag is more likely than a ‘hobo sign’.
I’m leaning away from the tag theory, for two reasons:
1.) People just don’t do that very much around here. I may have seen one or two of those things in my whole life; I actually learned what the word meant here on this message board. I guess anything’s possible along a railroad track though.
2.) From what a Google image search tells me, if it is a tag, it’s a lousy example of one. The style seems more reminiscent of a hobo sign based on some of the charts floating around on the webbernets, but I can’t find this particular one.
Maybe it is just a train-hopping Auburn fan with an affinity for bling.
The “U” part looks a lot like the Camp Here hobo symbol, but I don’t know what the other part is supposed to be. A tent? Doesn’t look like any gang tag I’ve ever seen.
If it had been around here, it would be the gang sign for the Ugly Americans gang.
My first impulse was to think that it was vaguely reminiscent of the Masonic compass and square, drawn by someone who forgot that the square was, well, squared. Symbols.com gives a better resemblance, but the angle of the ecliptic hypothesis would be really out there in the context of tags and hobo signs.
