We’ve done quite a few galleries of amusingly defaced street signs. And while we like to celebrate their tongue-in-cheek lets-all-laugh-at-ourselves humor, we do have to acknowledge that the message printed above  (itself on a defaced street sign — such is the age of irony) is important: Defacing street signs, particularly Stop signs and other road safety signs, is illegal and potentially dangerous for drivers and pedestrians. And since March is National Collision Awareness Month (and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is quick to remind us all that around 102 people died in auto crashes per day in 2008 – one every 14 minutes!) we want to formally state that we at The Infrastructurist do not condone the defacing of public street signs, no matter how witty, zingy, or hilarious the results may be.

Of course, should individuals ignore our recommendation and continue to vandalize signs, we’ll keep on printing them…but we’ll feel slightly guilty about it.