In the past, we have brought you weird and wacky signs from around the world. These hilarious and frankly, stupid road signs in many cases, certainly qualify in the same vein.
Enjoy!
1. Sign in small town Virginia
A serious lack of creativity must be to blame for this street name in the state of Virginia. Unexpected Road? How in God’s name do you include that in any sane set of directions?
There’s no inherent hilarity in being gay of course – homosexuality and heterosexuality are just as funny, more or less. What is especially droll about this sign in Delaware however, given the present social context of the word, is the inevitable thought that a fiercely homophobic, right-wing, born-again nut might actually live on this street.
Someone with authority has to enforce a mandatory literacy class for the construction workers of England. Jioning?
4. Washington, D.C. highway sign
A recent report on the breakdown of the public education system in America came down hard on Washington, D.C. schools. According to the report, 88% of all eighth-graders in the nation’s capital fail to meet basic reading standards. Apparently, being able to distinguish right from left is also a problem.
5. Weird paint line on random U.S.A. road
Basic directional sense is not the only element in need of correction with U.S. road and highway employees. How about sheer pride in your work? Really now, how hard would it have been to shift that tree trunk over a few feet?
6. Sign in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Maybe it’s just us, but from the looks of the perilous angle depicted in this sign, a helmet isn’t going to do you much good if you take a tumble on this Great Smoky road. Especially if you lack hands and fingers, let alone opposable thumbs.
We hate to pick on the elderly and without the benefit of more context, we’re frankly out of the loop here, but man, isn’t this sign a tad overcautious? And hey, not all old people have terrible posture. Well, maybe in Germany …
8. Sign in Utrecht, Netherlands
This sign just looks so offensive in English that if you zoom by at an excessive speed, a double take could put you in a ditch. Apparently it actually means something significant in Dutch however, so there you are.
C’mon Hawaii, we know you have a virtual monopoly on stupid signs but this is just too much. Pee Road? Really?
“Hey dude, meet me at noon at the corner of Pee and Hoohu”
Ridiculous.
10. Sign in British Columbia, Canada
It’s not unwise to warn people about the dangers of slippery cliffs but still, there’s a certain slapstick Keystone Cops hilarity in this sign in British Columbia.
11. Nottingham, England road sign
We know the British drive on the wrong side of the road but what is the point of this sign? Could it be that street sign officials in England are just as ignorant on right and left as their counterparts across the pond?
12. Random sign on Ontario, Canada highway
It’s not uncommon to see signs alongside Canadian highways that depict moose or deer. These animals, if struck at the right speed, will not only die, but may even take you along with them. Your car will be in a serious state of disrepair as well, though that may not matter if you’re dead. The point is that moose and deer are big. Turtles however, are tiny. If they’re on the brink of extinction, it’s their own fault for being dumb enough to cross a highway.
Our first thought about these sign was well, maybe they make sense to people in the United Kingdom. Maybe when they take their driver’s exams, we surmised, they learn to decode these arcane signs.
Then we spoke with a friend from Manchester and “no” he said emphatically, “no, drivers in England have absolutely no clue what these signs mean.”
Other than a sign that reads “Road ends abruptly here”, no sign would make us panic more than this one.
15. As seen in Southampton, England
No parking here? No parking where exactly? Is this sign intended for tank owners? Because really now, who else could possibly park their vehicles on this rocky, rugged terrain?
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