Sign error makes drivers do doubletake

kctv ^ | 7/31/13

[SoFloFreeper]

A traffic sign near a preschool has some drivers asking questions.

As a driver isn't it our job to obey all posted street signs, but how do you do that with this one, privately posted in front of a preschool, "please slow drively?" It has caused some perplexed reactions.

"It looks like they might have done it on purpose. Is it funny? Yes, it's funny," one man said.

"With people these days, I'm pretty sure it was done on purpose," a woman said.

[SoFloFreeper]

funny, but sad.

[knarf]

So

There I was

Drively slowing when ... WAM!

I was complimented!

[HereInTheHeartland]

On purpose; gets peoples attention!

[Kozak]

I are edjumacted in the Publik Shcool..

[mountn man]

Yeah, it gets there attention...

As they drive over a kid that runs out into the street.

[adorno]

“SLOW MEN AT WORK” always gets me to look.

[MV=PY]

Based on my experience with the school system it could have been a mistake.

Regardless, will it help children learn proper English? I believe (hope) that is one of the school’s goals.

I am a word game addict, but I don’t think this is amusing in front of a school.

[Colonel_Flagg]

un-ping.

[Carry_Okie]

Yeah, it gets there attention...

And it would get their attention too.

[Tax-chick]

“X-NG” could be a euphemism for a popular expletive which describes my feelings about school. Or shcool.

[BlueDragon]

Yeah, it gets there attention...

That was purty sly...

[MarDav]

You’ve misinterpreted that street sign of yours. That was done by a passing road crew who found an innovative way to alert the street sign “editors” that the spelling of school was “X” “NG” (read: Wrong, No Good). The crew seeing this would immediately realize the need to correct the offending signage, consult the official street sign dictionary, and make the necessary correction.

Sheesh...

[knarf]

Man, ... that is SO shcool !

[knarf]

I keep waiting for the children to DO something ... but they never do ... they never even show UP

[Einherjar]

We have a lot of SLOW
CHILDREN

signs in our neighborhood. Must be the old lead water mains.

[Iron Munro]

[Buckeye McFrog]

I blew the whistle when some “public servants” installed all four signs at a four-way Stop BACKWARDS (i.e. you were looking at bare galvanized metal from all directions).

Prime evidence of union guys with their skivvies in a twist over something. Had to be deliberate cause even THEY aren’t that stupid.

[ArrogantBustard]

I have a D-RAM:

[Iron Munro]

[Born to Conserve]

“slow children playing”

We can’t all have fast kids...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Who’s their sign maker? Yoda?

[Buckeye McFrog]

LOL! The Wheeling Island exit of I-70 in West Virginia (installed as an afterthought after Exit 1 was already established onshore) was for many years designated as “Exit 0”

[CPOSharky]

I-10 at the Texas-New Mexico border has an Exit 0. It is actually at, or really close to, mile zero.

[jaydubya2]

I think these signs are an insult to children with reduced mental capacity:

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Who’s their sign maker? Yoda?”

Probably Pablo or Juan.

[BlueDragon]

I used to have Deram.

Those who have never heard it from one of the original pressings, played on a good system might not know what they're missing. There was a depth, a richness which didn't quite make it into the remixes, much less the digitized made from the remixes. It is difficult to describe, one of those 'you had to have been there' things, perhaps as the difference between really good photography, or seeing a thing in real life, directly.

[Oatka]

I blew the whistle when some “public servants” installed all four signs at a four-way Stop BACKWARDS (i.e. you were looking at bare galvanized metal from all directions).

Probably the same crew that set this up:

[ArrogantBustard]

I have that album ... haven’t listened to it in aeons.

[ArrogantBustard]

Wild-eyed guess: That camera is turned off, and the pointing system has “homed”.

[Tax-chick]

[adorno]

That sign could be construed as an invitation to pedophiles. Hopefully they know better.

[Slings and Arrows]

SUPORT UR PUBLIK SKOOLS!

[knarf]

I always thought the wording was weird.

[knarf]

I remember that

[Revolting cat!]

[Revolting cat!]

[Revolting cat!]

[a fool in paradise]

[Oatka]

Wild-eyed guess: [backward security camera] That camera is turned off, and the pointing system has “homed”.

I didn't know they did that. It's more comforting to think that NOBODY could be THAT stupid.

Good for a swipe at the security freaks though.

[freedomlover]

[Jane Long]

This explains the professionally printed (did I say purple?) signs seen nowadays.