On the way to Florida from Wisconsin I saw the hitchhiker/esacaped convict sign as well as one that said “Watch For Low Flying Aircraft”
I bet it surprises the hell out of the seers!
In my hometown there is a sign on the public side of a golf course’s fence: “Watch For Errant Golf Balls”
How, exactly, are you supposed to do that?
“The Computer is your Friend!”
I’ve seen 'em too. Living in Tucson, you’re kinda bound to.
What gives someone that idea? Well, the “father” has a ragged sombrero on, the “mother” has a raggedy dress and they’re also holding milk gallon water jug things. Oh, the kid is raggy too. Maybe that’s racist, but everyone seems to get the point.
Edit to last post: The signs I’ve seen to the south of here, by Nogales, are as I described. The ones shown in this thread are WAY more PC. Lol.
These fall more into the “scary that they need to exist” camp.
In Southern Oklahoma: DO NOT DRIVE INTO SMOKE
On the Strawberry River in Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas: ROAD UNSAFE WHEN UNDER WATER
Yep - here’s a very bad picture of one of the UK ones. There are plenty of them round here - I live near Aldershot which is a very military town. When I was at school, a friend of mine was riding his bike down a long hill, rounded a bend and rode into the side of a tank :eek: He was fine; his bike did not come off to well though!
While on the subject of UK road signs, I have always been puzzled by the slippery road sign. Just how slippery does the road have to be in order for the car’s tyre-tracks to cross over like that? Even a 360-degree spin wouldn’t be able to make that skid pattern…
I drive by a yellow “Low Flying Aircraft” sign on the way to work…of course, I also drive by a grass airstrip with a hangar containing three small planes. I’ve never seen them out though.
Then there’s this sign, which is well known all over the internet.
Here’s my ski buddy posing next to an aptly named run in Whistler. The top sign says “Expect unmarked cliffs, rocks, and other alpine hazards”.
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I can’t find a picture but there used to be a sign at the top of Grand Targhee that said something to the effect: “Warning skiing beyond this point may result in the loss of your lift ticket and/or your life.” Uh, yeah, it would really bother me to lose my life, but don’t take away my lift ticket. :dubious:
That’s the one I was going to mention! We pass it on the way to my in-laws. I find it very unsettling – I’ve never seen a sign like that anywhere else. Even in areas that might be prone to fires, I guess they assume you will know not to drive into the smoke. Does that mean there is something sinister about the smoke in Oklahoma that will hypnotize me and cause me to drive directly into the heart of the smoke, like a lemming to the sea? I worry about this.
There’s also a warning label on our paper shredder at work that is alarmingly graphic about what could happen to you if you stick your hand in the shredder.
One of the warehouses near the Port of LA has a fire bell on the outside with a sign that says “When Bell Rings Call Fire Department.” Since it is directly across the road from some fuel storage tanks, I believe I will drive down the road a bit before calling…
At the next warehouse a railroad track runs right into the warehouse, with the top of the door being just about rail-car height. The sign there says something like “No Trainmen Riding Beyond This Point.” Well, yeah.
I saw this in France, fourth row, second column, I could only assume that if I did something, my car would blow up.
Here in Germany there’s these roadsigns which are round, black on a yellow background. Often they just have two parts: on the left it has a “single direction” arrow and a number, on the right two opposing arrows and a lower number.
But other times you get two signs, similar to the one above but one with a jeep’s silhouette - and the other one with a tank!
I don’t know what creeps me more, the notion of a country where the speed limit for tanks is posted at regular intervals, or the notion of a column of tanks in some of these roads.
Fernando Botero’s sculptures are as rotund as his paintings. There was a large exhibit of his sculptures in Madrid several years back and he sort of had to fight the people organizing it because they were angry at people touching the sculptures and taking pics of their kids riding the shortest ones - he thought it was great!
They’re definitely very touchable. I just wish the horsey at El Prat airport was short enough to climb on it, I’d love a pic on his back.