Funny Road Signs

You’ve seen thousands of road signs in your life, but you’ve probably forgotten nearly all of them. Well, almost all.

https://www.rd.com/list/funny-road-signs-slow-down/

https://www.defensivedriving.org/dmv-handbook/29-unusual-road-signs/

Transcript

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Welcome to the Cashley Show. We are Kevin and Ashley.

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Hello.

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We started this podcast after recent tragedies to take a break from negativity and discover the good things happening all around us. Today we are talking about funny road signs.

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Can there really be that many funny road signs? It's like 25 miles an hour.

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Well, there's some good ones.

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How can there be funny road signs?

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You'll have to see.

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Road signs are meant to guide us, warn us, and keep us safe. But every so often someone puts up a sign that makes you stop and look twice. Maybe it's a typo that turns a warning into a joke, a message that leaves you puzzled, or a bit of local humor added to the sign. These funny road signs show that even the most ordinary part of a road trip can surprise you. Here are some of the best ones we found. First one is pothole viewing area up the street.

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What? Potholes viewing up the street.

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So I guess you can watch everyone hit all the potholes.

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Potholes viewing I don't know.

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Hmm.

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Alrighty. Next one we have just a one-way street on one side of the street. It says you can go right, but on the other side of the street, it says one way and you can go left only.

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So it's like a regular street. Yes. On one side you go one way, on the other side you go the other way.

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Yes. Okay. It's a little confusing.

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Unnecessary signage.

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This is in New Orleans. Now's next one just has a picture of a snail inside of a triangle.

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Is it like a hazard triangle? So watch for snails.

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Yep. Watch for snails as you're driving.

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These better be big snails. Otherwise, I'm not sure I'm going to see them. Do you have any more? Like any more information? Like is that from don't like some places have like big snails. Like they're as big as like basketballs.

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Oh really?

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I think so. You should look it up real fast. I want to say I'm just gonna make this up. Australia, New Zealand, something like that.

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What place has very large snails? Originally from East Africa, the giant African land snail has been established throughout the Indo-Pacific basin, including the Hawaiian Islands. Since 2011, these snails have been found in Miami, Florida.

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So you should look those up. What are they called again? Giant land snails?

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Giant African land snail.

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Yeah.

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Oh, that's yucky.

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So maybe not as big as a basketball, but says eight inches in length. So maybe that's what the sign's for.

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Maybe. About the size of a human fist, the shell can reach eight inches in length and four inches in diameter. That's a big snail. Next we have airplane crossing.

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So this is a road that goes across like a taxiway or something like that?

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I don't know.

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I just looked up funny signs, so I don't I don't know a lot of information about most of them. Next one is parking prohibited. Parking will be fine.

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Yeah. English is a tough one.

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It is. Next one says, beware of invisible cows.

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Most of the Hawaiian. Yeah. Monochia.

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Yeah. Access road below the hill something is open cattle range, and the cows frequently cross the road. Dark colored cows are often invisible in darkness and or fog. Use extreme caution and drive very slowly in this open range.

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Beware the invisible cow.

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Next one is slow children.

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Oh, those poor kids.

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It has also the triangle. What did you say it was? Like a hazard. Hazard. It looks like a parent and child running across a street, but it just says slow. And then blue says children.

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Slow children play here.

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So children walk across the street. Next one has a bridge and a yellow sign on a light pole. And it has a bicycle on the left side of the bridge, and it has a arrow pointing to the left, and a car on the right side of the sign, and it points into the water. Cars go on the water, bikes go on the bike path.

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Bikes go on the road. Yeah, I mean there's a bike lane way off to the left. Yeah. Like bike lanes on the left, regular cars on the right, but the sign is in a terrible spot.

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Next one has a picture of bikes. It's like a one-way bike going to the right, and then a one-way bike going to the left, but their the arrows are pointing at each other.

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I want to know more about these signs.

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Do you want to look them all up?

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Well, we've already started.

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The next one has E.T. a picture of E.T. on a yellow sign, and he has his finger up and he's wearing a seatbelt and it says buckle up.

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Buckle up. I wonder what that just for fun? Yeah, what I'm sure it was. Is there a reference or something I don't get? I mean I understand it's E.T.

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but Yeah, it's probably in the 80s, so it was like cool then.

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Well, but I just mean more like is there some sort of Easter egg or reference that I'm missing? Not just that it's E.T. saying telling you to buckle up. But it has something Jimmy, look it up. No, I wanted you to be prepared.

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I am prepared. I have funny signs.

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But there's no information about any of them.

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Alright. Do you want to start over and we'll do something else instead?

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We'll have to push forward.

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You don't like this one already.

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I do like it. These are funny signs. That's why I want to know more about them.

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Alright. This one says, Road closed to you to your normal way of life has construction down a residential road.

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I've seen the close to through traffic, and I always ignore those and just drive through. I've never seen one of those ones though.

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The next one says, go ahead, drink and drive. And it says, go to the right to jail, go to the left, the hospital, and well, I guess curved to the right was the first one. Via right, via your left. Yeah. And to the right is the morgue. Next one, they spelled stop sopped. SOPT. SOP. SOPT.

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Do you think you would get in trouble if you didn't stop at this?

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Yes.

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Because it's a red what are stop signs? Octagons?

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Yeah.

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It's a red octagon, so regardless of what it says.

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Yep. Next one says, if you hit this, you'll hit bridge. And there's like little chimey things, I would assume, on a yeah.

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There is a YouTube channel that is just I think all it is is this camera that watches a bridge that like someone put up. I don't think that it's like a city or county or whatever. I think it's like a person because the bridge gets hit so much by trucks and stuff like that. Really? So that there's like tons of videos of just like moving trucks and all sorts of trucks and things just smashing into this bridge. Doesn't look like it's this one.

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Yeah. But that's interesting. People don't know how tall their truck is when they're going under bridges.

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Maybe maybe. I mean a lot of moving trucks they probably don't. I think like also with like bikes on top of vehicles and all that type of stuff. Like just a lot of stuff hits this bridge.

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Yeah. Alright. Next one is says caution. Infernal traffic.

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Infernal. I'm not even sure what infernal means. What does infernal mean? Infernal. Is it a real word?

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Relating to or characteristic of hell or the underworld. It's a good sign.

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Yeah, I that sign could be in a lot of places. Just on almost all roadways.

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Definitely, definitely LA.

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Yeah. Inf I don't know why infernal, the more I say it, the less it sounds like a real word. Infernal. It sounds like I'm trying to say something else and I don't know what. Infernal. Wait, scroll back up. Infernal looks weird, doesn't it? Like the F?

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Yeah. Like part of the F.

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Oh, because it used to caution internal traffic and I N, and then they blocked off. See the upper part? It used to say internal traffic. But they made it into infernal. Someone modified the sign. That's how you get funny signs. People change them.

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Not necessarily. Next one we have keep right, except the arrow points left.

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Well, they mean the signs right. That's the problem with left and right. It's highly contextual.

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It's true. It's true.

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It's terrible for directions.

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Next one, someone did add to this one. Stop. Collaborate and listen. I would assume someone added that. Maybe somebody just did that.

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I don't think so because I think if someone didn't stop the stop sign because they were like, well, it seems like a joke, and then they got hurt or whatever, they just sue the city. Yeah. So I'm sure someone modified it. Stop. Collaborate and listen.

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I'm back with my brand new invention.

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That's probably all I can sing of that before we have to pay him money that he will then pay Queen.

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Next is don't even think of parking here.

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This is like the sign on my my mug.

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Yeah.

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Don't touch it. Don't even look at it.

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Next one is sign not in use. It's just a red sign.

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Yeah, why make it red?

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Why would just take it down?

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Because then people be like, where'd the sign go? So then you keep a sign up. This is like in the military when they had blank pages and stuff, and maybe you saw this IRS. It would have a blank page and it would say on the blank page.

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Intentionally left blank.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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It's like, well, but now it's not blank. Because you've written on it. So either way you go with this, you're wrong.

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Yeah. Next one is squirrels have right of way.

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No, they don't. Squirrels don't control me.

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Do too.

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I'll hit turkeys and squirrels and have a nice sandwich.

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No, he won't because I'm not doing anything with that.

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With some squirrel meat? I wonder what squirrel meat tastes like.

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Gross. You think so? Mm-hmm.

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I don't think so.

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100%.

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I bet it tastes like rabbit.

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Which I would assume is gross as well.

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I bet it tastes like chicken. Squirrels taste like rabbit, and I bet rabbit tastes like chicken. I bet almost everything tastes like chicken.

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Meh. I don't I don't love chicken. Not my favorite meat. Next one.

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Yes.

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There's like a hospital sign, but it has a question mark and it points to the left.

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There's a question over there.

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Something's over there. Who is it?

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I'm gonna go see. Figured out where it is. I wonder how people go left. I would probably go left if I came here. I'm curious. I don't know. So I would go left. See what it is. What do those other ones say behind it?

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There's a Canada flag, so I guess this is in Canada.

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Yep.

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I can't read it.

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Oh, under Scott. Scott's town.

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Anyways, I think it's in Canada because there's a Canada flag in the back.

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So is that what the question marks for? It's like hospitals that way, you may get some service if they're not busy.

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We don't know. Good luck.

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Is that snow? Nope, this is just No, go scroll back up. I understand what a white page looks like. Is that snow at the bottom of the powerful?

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Yeah, there's snow up on the roof.

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Okay. Yeah. Definitely Canada.

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Next one. Speed limit. 20 kilometers per hour. Warthogs and children have right of way.

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Do they like together? Like are the children riding warthogs?

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Guess you'll have to write.

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Or walking them? Go find out where this is. Or the warthog's chasing the children, and really you should hit the warthog.

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Get out and help the children.

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I'm not getting out of my car if there's a loose warthog. Run, children. Run.

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The next one says Brentwood Chipping Ongar Industrial Estates. Secret Nuclear Bumper.

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Nice.

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Shh.

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Secret. Nobody will know. It's written in red with white letters versus the white with black letters for the rest of the sign. That'll throw them off. That's one of my when I like growing up, like Pauly Shore in the Army now was like a my favorite movie for I don't know, a year or two. Oh yeah. And in there, like they get captured by whoever, and they say something like, Well, the war starts tomorrow. And like Pauly Shore's like battalion or whatever's like, how do you know? It's like we saw it on the news. They're announcing that the war starts tomorrow. Well, that's not very sneaky. Now we can prepare. So they prepare and they get all their stuff. So, anyways.

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That's funny. Next is a sign that says the future and points forward as you're driving.

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Unless you're coming from the other way.

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Maybe you don't see the sign.

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Then you realize you're a time traveler.

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Maybe it's slightly turned so you can't see it. Or maybe it's a one-way road. It doesn't look very big.

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Well, there's probably a one-way going the other way on the other side. Just like those other signs.

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Maybe the back of the sign says the past.

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I would get out and look. Now you said that. I don't know what's on the other side of that sign.

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The next one says, Warning. This road crosses U.S. Air Force bombing range for the next 12 miles. Objects may fall from aircraft.

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And it looks it is full of holes.

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Yeah. A little hard to read.

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Yeah. Well, I wonder how many times like they hit the road with their bombs. This is out in like they do this in the West Desert in Utah. Right? I mean, I don't know if that's where this sign is.

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I don't know.

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I mean, it looks very deserty.

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Yeah.

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But mayfall from Aircraft.

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Next one has a stop sign. And then it says, no turning left. No turning right. Okay. No going backwards. No going straight. You're stuck here in this spot.

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Yeah.

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What are you supposed to say?

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There's construction happening on at least two of the roads. So maybe construction everywhere.

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You get here and you just have to disappear.

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If you get to this point, you're working on the road now.

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Yeah, there's a lot of signs. This looks like one of those captcha things to make sure you're not a robot. Choose all the squares with a sign in it, because there are signs all over the place.

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Wrong way, do not enter. Road closed. Yeah.

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There's there's like signs behind signs. Yeah. Jeez. It's a lot happening here. Someone they have like one person in charge of signs, and so they're just going for it.

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Yeah.

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This is all it's like, this is my job. We're gonna do it all.

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Get it all done. I only had to put them up.

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Right? They put up signs because that's their job. So otherwise they're just doing nothing.

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Yeah. The next one is A falling car. It's a car. Looks like it's going off a cliff. I don't know.

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What is the person on the left on the road? Are they on a bicycle?

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Yeah, he's on a bicycle. So the car is like it's on a diamond shape.

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It's typical yellow. Yeah, typical yellow yellow.

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The car is looks like it's like launching off the road. I don't know. Next we have stop. Stop sign. Underneath it says four-way. And underneath it is a stop sign, shaped sign, but smaller, that says stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, please. And there's a cop sitting in the background.

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They have a real problem. The stop. Even the poll is red. They've done everything they can to try and get people to stop. I wonder if it's like just one person, or is this like the whole anyone driving down this road is just blowing through like it didn't used to be a four-way and people are not paying attention. What TV show was that? Where they kept running the stop sign, like the whole series. The 80s. What's that one? The Goldbergs. Right? Like always in their stationers and they're always blowing through that stop sign at the end of their road. Yeah. Even then the kids did it too when they learned to drive.

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Yeah. The next one has a guy painting a crosswalk, and he has painted stop wrong as well.

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That's a tough one, you know? Stop and stop to They're close.

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This seems to be quite difficult.

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That's what the other one said too, right?

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Sotp.

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Yep. You know, S and O just go so well together.

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Yeah.

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What is happening?

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This one has a guy that looks like he's on a raft and it looks like sharks are near him. And it has like a circle with a line through it. So don't use your raft in the water with the sharks. I don't I don't know.

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See, this is where you need to come more prepared. This sign means are those fossils? And it's telling you not to pick up fossils. Is that what those are? I have no idea. Those are like little teeth.

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I don't know. I thought it looked like shark.

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Yeah, that's a very specific sign. It means nothing to us, but someone somewhere knows. And they know not to do it because it's got a line through it.

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Oh, there you go. No, I just wrote it's a clear one. Oh, you wrote that. Okay.

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Wood raff with sharks. Like I said, very specific sign.

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Yeah. Next one has that dude's having fun. A square sign that's yellow. It looks like a rainbow kind of, but only like two stripes. So maybe like a hill. And this guy on a motorcycle looks like he's flying off of it while he's going up the rainbow. I don't know what's happening.

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I want to say that it's a turn and he's having fun riding the turn, but yeah. That things have gone awry. He's flying off. Maybe getting pulled up through like a tractor beam, UFO, getting sucked up.

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Yeah.

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I don't know, because that's a yep, that's a strange one.

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The next one, there is a stop sign on the left with the word stop. And on the right has a witch on a broom. A stop line.

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That's where they stop.

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Yep. Witches on the right, cars on the left.

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See? I want to know more about these. Because like we what's beneath the witch, too.

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It looks like maybe a number four.

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Yeah. The number four witch? Is this in like a I don't know, universal or something? Can you zoom in on like any of those signs in the background? Let's do some detective work. Enhance. Enhance? Enhance.

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As much as it goes.

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Oh yeah, you barely zoomed in at all. You can't read those. I don't see any witches either, though.

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Yeah. I don't know. Alright, next. Beware. Wild animals slash children.

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Yeah. Wild children do be dangerous. No rules. No one's taught them any manners.

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You should have just let me start silver and I could have done a different one and fix this one.

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No, you're fine.

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Alright, the next one has turn right to go left sign.

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Okay. Lightning McQueen. Sometimes you gotta turn left to go right.

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Do not block intersection.

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Yeah, but don't block the intersection because people would be sliding around, whipping it. Turn left to go right. That's that would confuse if my mom were driving. She sees that sign. She is not gonna go right. Turn left to go right.

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Next one is zombies ahead on a road construction like sign where they Yeah, like at night. Yeah, where they type in the message.

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I wonder if people like hack those, or if there's just like very simple like the logins like user or admin and the passwords like zero zero zero zero or something. Because I see stuff like this often.

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I wondered if they did like a parade, like a Halloween parade or something, so they did this.

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Oh, yeah, that'd be cool.

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Next one is mosquito carrying a man. Dang!

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Jurassic Park.

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Some big mosquitoes in this place.

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I wonder what this is from. Do you think it's from a movie?

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Mm-hmm. Let me look it up.

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Yeah. Giant mosquito sign. Mosquito. Are they just like m poking fun at like big mosquitoes? Right. Because some places have big mosquitoes.

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Yeah. Canada.

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Another Canada one? Do you guys not have real signs up there? They're all just fake, funny signs?

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In Hamlet of Uppsala on the west side of the Trans-Canada Hawai Highway, north of Shell Gas Station and south of Canop Gas Station. Anyways, I would that's interesting if Canada really has big mosquitoes. It's pretty cold there. Wouldn't a lot of them die?

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No idea. I've never actually been to Canada.

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Me neither. Seems too cold for me. The next one is a sign, another triangle one, with a man in a wheelchair heading down a hill straight towards an alligator.

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I like the speed, the speed lines on the wheelchair.

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He's really moving down that hill. And his mouth's open. I'm sure he's screaming. Help me. Angle the chair to hit the thing in the face. Oh, that was it.

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That was it. Yep. That was quick.

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And then these signs remind us that humor can show. Up in the most unexpected places, even on the side of the road.

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Whether they were planned or just a lucky mistake, they've got something most signs never do. They actually get noticed. So next time you're driving, keep an eye out.

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You never know when you'll spot another great one. There's a lot of ones you weren't expecting, huh?

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Yeah, yeah. I think my favorite one was actually the turn left to go right one. Oh, really? Yeah.

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My favorite was the guy in the wheelchair heading towards the crocodile. That's why it was last.

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Remember, even a small act of kindness can be someone's beacon in their darkest moment. Choose kindness every day. Reach out to someone today. You have the power to change a life. Be the signal of hope this world needs to be a good idea.