# Strange Road Signs **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 28, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764 "2000-10-28T20:25:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![festiva76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e8cbc/32.png) [@festiva76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/festiva76)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/1 "2000-10-28T20:25:41Z")
I know I have posted this before, but I don’t recall anyone answering the question. What the heck does the sign showing the back of a tractor-trailer with the words “STA A ACCESS” underneath? I have traveled frequently as of late, and I know those signs are rampant here in the southeast. Anyone out there have a clue? ---
**Author:** ![Zarathustra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/898d66/32.png) [@Zarathustra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zarathustra)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/2 "2000-10-28T20:36:30Z")
Those signs are put up by the United Nations to designate the planned routes for pacification forces to use at a certain classified future date. There are actually two types of signs, “strategic transport auxilliary “A” access” and “strategic transport auxilliary “B” access”. You saw the far more common of the two. The background story on this goes something like this: a few years ago, a leased-out Wal-Mart truck jacknifed on IH-35 just outside of Chicago, and boxes full of signs spilled out with designations like, “This City Under Martial Law as per Executive Order 32563/27”. This was very embarassing to the United Nations and to the Clinton Administration, as you can well imagine, so ever since then they’ve been sticking with the coded signs. Hope this helps, Zarathustra ---
**Author:** ![festiva76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e8cbc/32.png) [@festiva76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/festiva76)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/3 "2000-10-28T20:59:42Z")
Please elaborate. That seems a bit vague. You’re saying that the UN has escape routes on our roads? ---
**Author:** ![Zarathustra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/898d66/32.png) [@Zarathustra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zarathustra)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/4 "2000-10-28T21:09:24Z")
I’m not really allowed to elaborate. In fact, I’ve said too much already. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/5 "2000-10-28T21:27:55Z")
(Zarathustra, did you ever work as Rush Limbaugh’s fact checker?) Is this a sticker, or a metal plaque? I suspect that “STA A ACCESS” is the brand name of the trailer. ---
**Author:** ![festiva76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e8cbc/32.png) [@festiva76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/festiva76)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/6 "2000-10-28T21:31:34Z")
The sign has nothing to do with a brand name on a trailer, cornflakes. It is a legitimate road sign, supposedly put up by the county/city. I have noticed that it seems more prevalent in urban areas. I live in an area with a population of around a half a million, and see the sign in various areas. I did see the sign in a town with a population of around 17,000 last week, though. ---
**Author:** ![JimOfAllTrades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@JimOfAllTrades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimOfAllTrades)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/7 "2000-10-28T22:04:42Z")
Very WAG here. Some looking around with a search engine turns up STA used as an abbreviation for Stormwater Treatment Area. These would be more common in the lowlands/wetlands of the southeast. Could it be they are markers showing standard access routes for trucks hauling fill or waste for construction or maintenance of water treatment areas? Ugly ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/8 "2000-10-28T23:12:12Z")
I’d be skeptical of a guy with who named himself Zarathustra in the first place. Also sprach Mahaloth. ---
**Author:** ![system\_hoser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@system\_hoser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system_hoser)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/9 "2000-10-28T23:19:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zarathustra \* > \*\*Those signs are put up by the United Nations to designate the planned routes for pacification forces to use at a certain classified future date… > Zarathustra \*\* what he spake. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/10 "2000-10-29T01:10:50Z")
Sorry, guys, but Zarathustra’s telling the truth. The truck wreck he mentioned happened not to a WalMart truck, though (this was back in Waldheim’s days at the U.N.-- I think WalMart is more recent), but it was indeed outside of Chicago. There was apparently some covert U.N. agreement with the White House, through Kissinger, of course, that in the event of a third-party victory. . . Are you serious, you guys don’t remember this? ---
**Author:** ![Zarathustra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/898d66/32.png) [@Zarathustra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zarathustra)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/11 "2000-10-29T01:18:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by M.K. \* > \*\*Sorry, guys, but Zarathustra’s telling the truth. The truck wreck he mentioned happened not to a WalMart truck, though (this was back in Waldheim’s days at the U.N.-- I think WalMart is more recent), but it was indeed outside of Chicago. There was apparently some covert U.N. agreement with the White House, through Kissinger, of course, that in the event of a third-party victory. . . Are you serious, you guys don’t remember this? \*\* Thanks for correcting me there, M.K. And hey, festiva76 saw the new signs, right? What more proof do they need? ---
**Author:** ![festiva76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e8cbc/32.png) [@festiva76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/festiva76)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/12 "2000-10-29T02:02:18Z")
Since last posting, I decided to head over to town. I saw at least four of them. Apparently, now that I am thinking about them more, I am seeing them everywhere here in the Southeast. I kinda like the flood explanation better, though. Why would there be some covert U.N. intervention on the highways of the Southeast? There has to be more to the story. I’m certainly not calling anyone a liar, but good grief, this is strange. ---
**Author:** ![system\_hoser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@system\_hoser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system_hoser)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/13 "2000-10-29T02:05:19Z")
Zarathustra speaks the truth. The Tri-lateral commission and/or the UN are actively taking over plots of US soil under the guise of establishing “biospheres”. Alledgedly, these “biospheres” are being created for preserving and protecting “our” ecology. I think somebody royally screwed up by putting up these “strange roadsigns”, figuring the average American is too preoccupied to notice them in the first place, and if they are noticed, the average American is too lazy and dumb to even wonder at their significance. ---
**Author:** ![festiva76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e8cbc/32.png) [@festiva76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/festiva76)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/14 "2000-10-29T02:11:12Z")
So, system\_hoser, you’re saying that the U.N. is planning on placing Biospheres on US soil? Strange that they would place a picture of a truck on the sign. Also, why are most signs located in urban areas? You would think that those kinds of things would be in rural areas of the country. Does this “phenomenon” exist only in the Southeast, or do these signs appear across the country? ---
**Author:** ![system\_hoser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@system\_hoser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system_hoser)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/15 "2000-10-29T02:17:57Z")
Geez, sorry for trying to have a little fun. [http://fp.thesalmons.org/lynn/world.heritage.html](http://fp.thesalmons.org/lynn/world.heritage.html) ---
**Author:** ![festiva76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e8cbc/32.png) [@festiva76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/festiva76)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/16 "2000-10-29T02:28:24Z")
OK system…forgive me for being ignorant, but please explain the coorelation between the World Heritage and the signs? The signs in question are 200 miles from the nearest location listed from the URL you posted. Now I am really confused, and that’s not hard to do:) ---
**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/17 "2000-10-29T02:34:19Z")
You FOOLS! Don’t you know? It’s NOT the brain-slaves at the U.N. or the Uzbek-puppet Tri-Lateral Commission. It’s the Illuminati! In cahoots with the Masons, this time! Don’t you know what the queers are doing to our soil? Educate yourselves, before it’s too la… ---
**Author:** ![Zarathustra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/898d66/32.png) [@Zarathustra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zarathustra)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/18 "2000-10-29T03:19:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beruang \* > \*\*You FOOLS! Don’t you know? It’s NOT the brain-slaves at the U.N. or the Uzbek-puppet Tri-Lateral Commission. It’s the Illuminati! In cahoots with the Masons, this time! Don’t you know what the queers are doing to our soil? Educate yourselves, before it’s too la… \*\* _Please_, Beruang–I know it’s all in fun, but we **are** discussing a very serious issue here. Fiesta76 has uncovered important evidence that the UN’s scheme has progressed well beyond the planning stage, and I _think_ we ought to treat his discovery with a little more respect, OK? Also sprach ich, Zarathustra ---
**Author:** ![festiva76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e8cbc/32.png) [@festiva76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/festiva76)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/19 "2000-10-29T03:30:05Z")
You know Zara, I have assumed all along that all this UN stuff was made up. I’m still having a difficult time understanding this sign issue. Is there any proof to back up your theory? Please, don’t misunderstand and think I am calling you a liar, but this does kinda seem unrealistic, don’t you think? Especially in my neck of the woods. ---
**Author:** ![system\_hoser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@system\_hoser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system_hoser)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764/20 "2000-10-29T03:51:02Z")
Biosphere Fatwah All glory and praise be to our God for providing us with land to be used as bases for the coming jihad! NO Infidel Devil Pig Soldier of the Dog Devil Satan will be spared! You Capitalist Pig Crusader-Zionist Puppet types will all be crushed under the foot of our holy army! It is the duty of all believers to follow the signs to the promised land! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-road-signs/38764.md?page=2)