Driving into the canyon leading to Kernville, CA, there’s a sign letting you know how many people have died in the Kern River below. The digits look like those on an old-fashioned scoreboard; that way, they can be updated every time someone drowns.
We always joke that it means something like "Welcome to Kernville. DON’T DIE IN THE RIVER!!!
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My other favorite I saw on a weeklong canoe trip. It was a warning sign for a upcoming waterfall. It showed a straight line to represent the river, and another line straight down from it for the waterfall and balanced ever so precariously on the edge was a little canoe just ready to fall off. If I wasn’t so focused to make to make the exit point of the river to portage around the falls, I would have taken a picture.
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They need another one - a person in a canoe going over a waterfall as their attention is focused on taking a picture of a warning sign depicting a person in a canoe going over a waterfall.
I always thought these drive carefully signs posted in many places here in Seattle were a little disturbing. It almost seems like a challenge.
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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.
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BTW these aren’t speed but mass limits (given in tonnes). They aren’t posted at regular intervals but before bridges (many of which are so small that you won’t notice them). All through the Cold War we expected German tanks to need to fight on those small German roads.
What? I’m the only one creeped out by “Dead End” signs? I hate 'em.
I was on a bus in Belize. Above the windshield inside was a sign that said “In case of an emergency, kick out windshield.” Okidoki. I was kinda planning on hanging out in back with the chickens while I met my firey death, but if you insist!
I tried getting a picture of a novelty street sign someone hung up that said “Path of Righteousness” in the same frame with the sign behind it that said “dead end.”
The most frightening sign I ever saw was on a church. It said “Worshiping the correct God correctly.”
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The most frightening sign I ever saw was on a church. It said “Worshiping the correct God correctly.”
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Reminds me of that Bill Hicks sketch regarding people “amending” the bible to suit. “I think what God meant to say…”
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BTW these aren’t speed but mass limits (given in tonnes). They aren’t posted at regular intervals but before bridges (many of which are so small that you won’t notice them). All through the Cold War we expected German tanks to need to fight on those small German roads.
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Aaaaaah. Ignorance fought, thanks!
In Kalbar, a little town south of Ipswich in Queensland, a sign saying “No Trespassers. Jehova’s Witnessess will be shot”
mm
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Reminds me of that Bill Hicks sketch regarding people “amending” the bible to suit. “I think what God [ i ]meant[ i ] to say…”
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Bloody hell - I edited the post and still missed the glaring coding error. Coffee please…
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Driving south from the Trans-Canada Highway in the southeast corner of Alberta, we were following Highway 41 (I think) through a mostly-unpopulated area. The only things in front of us were the gradually-narrowing road and the prairie, which extended to the horizon.
After a time we came to a sign: NO SERVICES OR RESIDENCES NEXT 137 KM.
If you broke down in winter on that road, you would die.
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There’s one (possibly more - I’ve just seen the one) of these in Australia’s outback north of Alice Springs, but the distance given is something like 500 KM. They really mean it when they say “Fill up now.”
1.) I realize now that it’s common out west, but I’d never seen it until I was driving a car with a trailer attached going downhill RAPIDLY on US-80 east of Salt Lake City, surrounded by 18-wheelers. This is a great time to discover:
**Danger -- Runaway Truck Lane**
and realize WHY they have a Runaway Truck Lane.
I made it down in one piece. Fortunately.
2.) At the base of the hiking trail there used to be (and probably still is) a sign that read:
Danger – People have Died on the Trail Above.
Be sure you are in Good Shape and Prepared
I was shocked to learn that one of my girlfriends had, upon seeing that sign, simply set off – unprepared – up the trail. She made it down OK, but I think she had to use the Runaway Truck lane.
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This one. (Not personally, but linked to on the Web…)
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They used to have one of those on 23rd street in Downtown Philly. It was near the National Guard depot. It didn’t say ‘crossing’ though, just a silhouette of a tank.
Its not there these days. Probably stolen too many times.
“Floor inside is contaminated by PCBs. Wear shoe protection”.
On the entrance to a room in the sub-basement of a federal office building. I worked down the hall from that room for 2 years.
To this day I wonder if that has something to do with Dweezil’s autism (I was pregnant during the time I worked there) 
I recall a sign at Ft. Sill OK. It was outside the Burger King in the parking lot for some reason. It read: Warning Shells Passing Overhead.
Some of the longer ranged artillery pieces would fire from one corner of the base to the other. Over portions the inhabited area of the base.
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I recall a sign at Ft. Sill OK. It was outside the Burger King in the parking lot for some reason. It read: Warning Shells Passing Overhead.
Some of the longer ranged artillery pieces would fire from one corner of the base to the other. Over portions the inhabited area of the base.
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I love signs like that. I mean, what are you supposed to do about shells passing overhead? Duck? Dodge them?
Three signs from Sweden I used to think the first one translated to Dolly Parton laying in the road ahead.
There is a cemetary between my apartment and down town that has a fairly ominous gate at the enterance with a standard “One Way” arrow sign pointing in.
That’s nothing.
The big cemetary that backs up to my apartment complex used to have a sign on the gate that said “Dead End”.
What makes it even worse is that the entrance is right across the street from a hospital.
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Three signs from Sweden I used to think the first one translated to Dolly Parton laying in the road ahead.
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Oh come on! What is scary about those is the wording. “FART HINDER” Does that mean I had better not fart or does it mean that something will keep me from farting?
I used to smile everytime I saw one of those “Student Driver” signs on a tank 
