Don’t feel bad. I’m Australian, and I had to Urban Dictionary this one.
Likewise this Bent Street sign in Brunswick, which has to be mounted high enough that the stoners can’t reach it. https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=bent+street+brunswick&hl=en&ll=-37.761826,144.941895&spn=0.001921,0.003484&sll=-37.877932,145.064402&sspn=0.001927,0.003484&hnear=Bent+St,+Brunswick+West+Victoria+3055&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=-37.761826,144.941895&panoid=hnFxcTyOYNZVlEQ6UJHRuw&cbp=12,140.2,,0,-0.97
Pfft. Yeah, “people”, “work”, “infrastructure”. Like those things exist.
I mean, what good does the sign do me, and I’d rather have a $0.000004 tax refund.
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In Pennsylvania there is a town called “Devon,” whose sign is STILL vandalized to this day, where the “n” is erased. Those Devo fans are a devoted bunch I guess!
I’ll see your mile market 420, and raise you Bong Recreation Area,
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/parks/name/richardbong/
Instead of a sign, they should have a big green boulder at the side of the road with “Mile 420” painted on it. It would be too heavy to steal and it would fit in perfectly with the stoned theme.
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On the rural Alabama road that lay between my ex-boyfriend’s house and mine, there was a sign announcing the intersection with rural route 69. One night we stole the sign, which had a few bullet holes shot through it because Alabama. It’s no Mile 420 but it that sign was special to us. Wonder how many times that sign was stolen???
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Have you seen what happens to boulders near roadways? <a href=“https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1440&bih=774&q=painted+boulders&oq=painted+boulders&gs_l=img.3…0.2386.5491.0.5600.16.11.0.5.5.0.125.626.10j1.11.0…0…1ac.1.32.img…0.16.642.4rdFd6JY5AE#hl=en&q=painted+rock+at+hill+st+ann+arbor&tbm=isch"target=”_blank">Here’s one from around where I live. It gets a new coat nearly weekly.
Well, it’s not just stoners. It’s people in general. A bunch of my (non-stoner) friends would routinely steal street signs when I was a teenager, sometimes for reasons (it was somebody’s name, for example), but sometimes just because they were teenagers and sometimes teenagers enjoy random vandalism.
Mile marker 666 on I-10 near Flatonia, Texas got stolen so frequently, TXDOT replaced it with a simple steel post with a yellow reflective strip. Before they did that, they tried caging the marker with steel rebar, but thieves cut the bars and stole the marker anyway.
I still liked the sign we kept stealing in my long-gone undergrad days.
ANY road sign for Virginville, Pennsylvania.
Incidentally, the authentic Pennsylvania Dutch food at the Virginville Hotel is actually pretty good. But then, I grew up on the stuff: I have a branch of the extended family that is still Plain. . . .
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