I’ve posted this before in years past, but I was in the area recently and decided to post it again.
In Washington County, Wisconsin, between the City of West Bend and the Village of Jackson, there is a hospital in a rural area, right across the freeway from the county fair park.
There is a road that the circles the hospital. On both sides of the road for both directions of the road there are Speed Limit signs that say “22.5”.
The 22 is unusual enough, but the “point 5” really throws me.
I’m wondering how many meetings took place, and whether anybody suffered bodily harm in the fight between those who wanted the limit to be 20 and those who wanted it at 25.
I figured I’d find that posted here. Which is totally fine, because it’s hilarious! But just in case anyone thinks otherwise, it’s an entry from a Cracked.com Photoshop contest a few years ago asking what the world would look like if sarcasm were allowed everywhere. It went viral as supposedly being real. ETA: Oh, wait- this one actually has the Cracked logo in the corner. Well, OK then. Perhaps I should pay closer attention.
Also, I remember sometime during the 1980’s when the New Market shopping center opened in Columbus OH. Signs in the parking lot posted a speed limit of 14 m.p.h. Dunno if the signs or even the shopping center are still there, but I still remember how odd that seemed.
I would never cut a logo or artist name from any creative work. That pic is funny as hell and people deserve to know where it came from, is my take on things.
Also, is there a sticky somewhere that I missed titled “Please spoil all pranks/funny stuff on the SDMB”? Did everyone see it but Nzinga and I?
Just the other day I saw a speed limit sign in a car park saying 8mph. Pretty pointless specifying a number like that, as most speedometers don’t read anything like accurately at those sort of speeds. Lots of them don’t even have graduations below 10mph or so.
There was a comedian who had a routine about getting chased down by a security guard in the shopping mall parking lot (speed limit 5mph): “SLOW DOWN YOU MANIAC! YOU’RE GOING 6!!!”
Not a speed limit sign, but the most thoroughly weird (real) traffic sign I know of is on the entry lane to a BJs Wholesale parking lot. I can get a pic of it next time I’m there, but from memory, it reads:
“NO MOTORCYCLES AFTER 6:00 PM. VIOLATORS WILL BE TICKETED AND TOWED.”
No one I’ve asked so far, including store management, has any idea what the sign is supposed to mean (in functional terms) or why it’s there.
“The sign instructs drivers to slow down to 25 mph between 6:49-7:15, 7:52-8:22 and 8:37-9:07 during the morning and 2:03-2:33, 3:04-3:34 and 3:59-4:29 during the afternoon on school days.”
The one I remember most was a housing complex with a posted speed limit of 19mph. This, unlike other examples in this thread, makes some sense since people may subconsciously think “oh, 20mph? I’m only going 24mph so I’m good!” whereas if it’s 19, the “1” make have more precedence and so they may be more likely to just go 19 or 20.
Looking at the sign 6:30-9:30am and 2:00-4:30pm would have been a lot easier. Or a flashing light with a timer and a sign that says “Speed limit 25 MPH when flashing”
Nah. It’s in the U.S. so there wouldn’t be any metrics involved. Except of course in Puerto Rico where the speed limits are in miles per hour but the distance signs are in kilometers! You get totally discombobulated trying to calculate how long it’s going to take you to get somewhere!
