# Hmmmm. I'm skeptical \[road signs\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455 "2021-12-03T15:56:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/21 "2021-12-03T22:44:59Z")
The Big Dam Bridge! [![](https://www.littlerock.com/images/default-source/destinations/attraction-images/big-dam-bridge-night-red-lights.tmb-detailitem.jpg?sfvrsn=842a80b6_4) ](https://www.littlerock.com/images/default-source/destinations/attraction-images/big-dam-bridge-night-red-lights.tmb-detailitem.jpg?sfvrsn=842a80b6_4) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/22 "2021-12-03T23:21:23Z")
^ It’s only a model. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/23 "2021-12-04T00:38:01Z")
Thanks @kenobi_65 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/24 "2021-12-04T01:15:58Z")
It’s the damdest! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/25 "2021-12-04T01:35:37Z")
Dam straight! (Or, in this case, dam curve!) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/26 "2021-12-04T02:01:49Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > oute 31 in New Jersey runs north from Trenton. It runs right past The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College). The state was spending a lot of money on signs that kept getting stolen by the students. That pretty much stopped when they changed the name to Route 31 from its original designation Route 69. Similarly, US 666 was changed to [US 491](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_491#U.S._Route_666), partially because the US 66 it had been a spur of was subsumed into I 40 but also because people kept stealing the signs. > Although sign theft has always been a problem along this highway, thefts reached epidemic proportions when the pending number change was announced. Within days of the announcement, virtually every US 666 sign had been stolen, some for sale on [eBay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay).[[34]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_491#cite_note-sttimes-34) Officials in Utah reported that five entire sign assemblies had been cut down with a chainsaw and stolen, while New Mexico officials reported that even signs welded to metal posts, as a theft deterrent, had been stolen. Officials speculated from one scene that someone had intentionally crashed a car into the sign post to break the welds.[[26]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_491#cite_note-nytimes2-26) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/27 "2021-12-04T02:37:04Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Route 31 in New Jersey runs north from Trenton. It runs right past The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College). The state was spending a lot of money on signs that kept getting stolen by the students. That pretty much stopped when they changed the name to Route 31 from its original designation Route 69. Ontario has had a Highway 69 for years. I don’t know if its signs got stolen, but I never drove it frequently enough to know where each one was: > **[Ontario Highway 69](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_69)** > > Highway 69 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/28 "2021-12-04T03:27:02Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > True story: Somewhere in Texas – probably I-10 – there is a mile marker sign that is/was constantly stolen, so the Highway Dept. scooted a little further down the road and posted “Mile 419 1/2.” Or something like that. In Colorado, mile marker 420 on I-70 got stolen so many times they eventually replaced it with one that read 419.99. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/29 "2021-12-04T03:45:03Z")
Can me stupid but I don’t know what the #420 means. Someone, please, fight my ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/30 "2021-12-04T03:49:29Z")
> **[Urban Dictionary: 420](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=420)** > > In 1971, five high school students – Steve Capper, Dave Reddix, Jeffrey Noel, Larry Schwartz, and Mark Gravich – in San Rafael, California, calling themselves the Waldos because "their chosen hang-out spot was a wall outside the school", used the... ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/31 "2021-12-04T04:53:40Z")
There’s always the old Saskatchewan favourite: [![](https://i.cbc.ca/1.3042314.1429634219!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/tisdale-sask-land-of-rape-and-honey-sign.jpg) ](https://i.cbc.ca/1.3042314.1429634219!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/tisdale-sask-land-of-rape-and-honey-sign.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/32 "2021-12-04T21:36:19Z")
I live in Ouachita county. Camden, Arkansas is the ‘Queen City of the Ouachita’ Freddy Mercury never showed up. I’ve not ever seen a Drag queen, there was this one guy who was busted for trying on Bra’s at Walmart tho’. I sez he was framed. How did they know he was actually trying them on? Peep hole? That’s a crime, I think. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/33 "2021-12-04T21:36:45Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > > > True story: Somewhere in Texas – probably I-10 – there is a mile marker sign that is/was constantly stolen, so the Highway Dept. scooted a little further down the road and posted “Mile 419 1/2.” Or something like that. > > In Colorado, mile marker 420 on I-70 got stolen so many times they eventually replaced it with one that read 419.99. I’ve heard of things like that, and it’s always surprised me that people didn’t find those more novel versions even more appealing. If I did partake, I would love to have a (replica) 419.99 sign. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/34 "2021-12-04T21:56:01Z")
On Ontario 401 east of Windsor, there is a street called “Sexton Side Avenue.” Someone blotted out the “t” there. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/35 "2021-12-04T22:00:48Z")
The town I grew up in had a drive-in theater that closed in 1979. The last movie it showed was **Clash of the Titans**. Some wank stole the **a** and the **n** from **Titans**. It was that way for several months after the place closed. Big yux. > [@BigT](#): > > If I did partake, I would love to have a (replica) 419.99 sign. But then everyone would assume you’re the designated driver. Or you’re on sale marked down from 430.00. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/36 "2021-12-04T23:28:41Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I don’t know what the #420 means. It’s a weed/pot/cannabis reference. April 20th (4-20) is a big holiday and activism day for legalizing it, lots of people smoke at 4:20 p.m. and so forth. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/37 "2021-12-05T09:26:58Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > (Actual story: it’s a state recreation area in southeastern Wisconsin; the land was originally planned to be the home of Bong Air Force Base, which would have been named for Richard Bong, a fighter pilot ace during World War II, who was from Wisconsin; the AFB project was cancelled partway through development, and the land eventually was turned over to the state, which built it into a recreation area. And, yes, the road signs get stolen a _lot_ .) It was a small airport for awhile - the former runways are clearly visible from the air. A bunch of us Wisconsin-based ultralight pilots used to buzz the former runways for shits and giggles. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/38 "2021-12-05T11:47:54Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > And, yes, the road signs get stolen a _lot_ . Yeah, we have a Stoner Drive in my county. The signs get stolen a lot. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/39 "2021-12-05T12:02:06Z")
Texan here, but since Arkansas seems to appear a lot in the thread: “Toad Suck Ferry” is a bizarre name. So weird that I actually diverted a trip to ride on it many years ago. According to this [article](https://501lifemag.com/a-historic-return-the-toad-suck-ferry-is-back-in-faulkner-county/), it’s back in service again. Along with the aptly named “Toad Suck Towboat”. I really need that T-shirt. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455/40 "2021-12-05T14:11:45Z")
My eye twitches every time I drive over a Bear Creek. I plead the fifth on any signs that may have gone missing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-im-skeptical-road-signs/955455.md?page=3)