Let’s stipulate: This is kind of juvenile.
But a basic Google search did not turn up any results for a photo gallery of defaced street signs. And since the Internet must, by definition, contain everything, natural law dictates that we create one immediately.
So here is a gallery of cunningly altered street signs from many different times and places. We have tried to stick mainly (but not exclusively) with ones that are funny and/or interesting. They range from obscure and inspired (”This Is A Fad”) to shamelessly fratty (well, a lot of the rest…).
If you have in any notable specimens stored away on your digital camera, mail ‘em in and we’ll post another gallery.
UPDATE: Thanks, and we’ve posted a new gallery here.
Always stop for the claw.
The flashing red hand should still be read as “Caution,” not “Ozzie… Ozzie…”
For safety’s sake.
What kind of person wouldn’t be cautious around them?
Touching in its careful craftsmanship.
Ah, youth.
Almost cloying… but still manages clever.
It always is.
Truly.
Simple, elegant.
And, finally, the infectious Mr. Mustache
Images via Flickr vidiot, gervo1865, slightlynorth, westbymidwest, tammylee_rose, amoraleda, liquidnight, girlposse, selyfriday
April 16th, 2009 at 10:23 am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/poetas/2958959666/in/set-72157613206706831/
April 16th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
scroll for 3 more…
http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/conheartist
April 16th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/211/504225303_79474d1ea2_o.jpg
and also
http://www.timproffitt.com/Humor/stop-collaborate-and-listen.jpg
April 20th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
[...] Amusingly defaced street signs. We don’t usually support vandalism here at doombot, except in cases like these when it is AWESOME! [...]
April 21st, 2009 at 11:07 am
[...] don’t endorse vandalism. But, as we noted the other day in Part 1 of this weighty series, nobody seems to have created a gallery like this previously in the internetosphere. For the sake [...]
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:42 pm
[...] we’re always game to give the people more of what they like. If you haven’t yet seen Part 1, or Part 2, check them out. As you might guess from the headline, the theme here is street signs [...]
April 29th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
[...] From Justin, amusingly defaced street signs. [...]
April 29th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/69425029_da23fd112b_o.jpg
May 13th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Why is Craig Newmark crossing the street with Bush?
May 19th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
[...] HA! AMUSINGLY DEFACED STREET SIGNS [...]
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:14 am
[...] 39) “Stop 2″ from The Infrastructurist http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/04/16/gallery-amusingly-defaced-street-signs/ [...]
May 24th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
[...] a three-part gallery (part one, part two, part three) of defaced street signs that (mostly) accomplish that [...]
June 19th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
The city made this one all by itself.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68076016@N00/2894906091/
From New Orleans, post-Katrina.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/editor/271423582/
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Spotted in downtown Indianapolis:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jikan/255283660/
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Not sure if I have a photo (it was over 15 years ago), but I saw a sign in Manchester, England reading: NO BARKING ZONE. (keep those doggies quiet, folks!)
June 24th, 2009 at 1:18 am
[...] Love stuff like this. The dumber the better. (via Infrastructurist) [...]
July 10th, 2009 at 3:26 am
Many, many years ago, before camera phones, almost before the internets themselves, a sign on my way home from work advised me I could “Bark all day for $7.” More than once I considered taking them up on the offer…
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:40 am
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July 22nd, 2009 at 3:41 pm
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July 24th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
[...] Link: Ha! Amusingly Defaced Street Signs – Infrastructurist [...]
August 13th, 2009 at 10:58 am
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August 13th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
many years ago, on the campus of the University of Iowa, the University created building signs with stick-um letters. Probably not the best choice, as one directional sign pointed to the “Wombat Seaquarium”.
September 15th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
You should check out altered signs group on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/groups/alteredsigns/
October 8th, 2009 at 6:39 am
My dick hurts.
November 5th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Only a fad!!! I like that one. These types of street signs crack me up. They remind me of the signs that I think David Letterman used to show.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
[...] take to traffic sign modification, like some of the folks in Infrastructurist’s listicle of 12 Funnily Defaced Street Signs. We’re surprised they missed a couple more signs, though, like this pacifist mod and another [...]
November 22nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
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January 26th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
From Croydon, U.K. Here’s another that is unintentionally funny without having been altered. It’s kind of hard to read because of the angle, but “underpass” was abbreviated to . . .
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tommypix/3822000434/