Funny Signs

July 23, 2010

I still haven't figured out what the flashing green lights I saw in Vancouver is supposed to mean.

It's a pedestrian activated crossing. The flashing indicates it hasn't been activated yet (the light turns solid when a pedestrian presses the button.)

January 1, 2011

Seen at a event/meal this morning. Read carefully.

January 3, 2011

This is not my picture, but I have a picture of this same sign at home. It ended up being the joke of the day. I probably quoted it 30 times, LOL.

I have a picture of two kids who were with me at the time when we found this - after climbing all over the dam!

Where is this, by the way? I can't remember, but would like to go back there sometime.

4.2k · January 3, 2011

I still haven't figured out what the flashing green lights I saw in Vancouver is supposed to mean.

It's a pedestrian activated crossing. The flashing indicates it hasn't been activated yet (the light turns solid when a pedestrian presses the button.)

that's weird lol...in Ontario is called "advanced green light" used for left turns

Edited January 3, 2011 by t4e

January 3, 2011

I ran across this odd one in October.

"What is it Lassie, did Timmy fall into a permit-required enclosed space? No. It's not yet a permit-required enclosed space? Phew. Wanna play fetch?"

January 3, 2011

I wish I had a picture of this one. It was a sign for a sale on large houseplants at the grocery store. It read: 12" Pot Plants $14.95

January 3, 2011

This is not my picture, but I have a picture of this same sign at home. It ended up being the joke of the day. I probably quoted it 30 times, LOL.

I have a picture of two kids who were with me at the time when we found this - after climbing all over the dam!

Where is this, by the way? I can't remember, but would like to go back there sometime.

Austin Dam Memorial Park

Austin, PA

January 3, 2011

This is not my picture, but I have a picture of this same sign at home. It ended up being the joke of the day. I probably quoted it 30 times, LOL.

I have a picture of two kids who were with me at the time when we found this - after climbing all over the dam!

Where is this, by the way? I can't remember, but would like to go back there sometime.

Austin Dam Memorial Park

Austin, PA

Thanks!

January 3, 2011

On New Year's Eve day, caching with friends, ran across this sign on the way to this cache which is rated terrain 1 & wheelchair accessible:

January 3, 2011

Here's one I saw by this cache.

January 4, 2011

This was at the entrance of a park that was open. None of these signs by themselves are odd, but together they become a bit confusing.

Edited January 4, 2011 by Nicodemus3

3.2k · January 4, 2011

I kind of like this one...

January 4, 2011

Seen at a event/meal this morning. Read carefully.

This sign should be on the inside of every front. It must be followed before going in public.

It all you can do to keep yourself from giving someone an atomic wedgie.

January 5, 2011

This is one of my favourites I have seen here in France. I'll let you decide which is the funny.

2.4k · January 7, 2011

my personal favorite, because it's somewhat subtle: probably the shortest high-speed stretch of road ever:

(you're allowed to go 100 km/h between those two "50" km/h signs)

I think it means you can drive faster if you are on the wrong side of the road.

Or, if you're on the left side of the road you can drive 49 km/h or 51 km/h but not 50 km/h. It must be a Canadian thing. I still haven't figured out what the flashing green lights I saw in Vancouver is supposed to mean.

Flashing green = pedestrian controlled light for crosswalk. It goes to solid green when the button is pressed, then yellow and red.

Signs in mainland Europe have a line through them when you're leaving a speed limit or town...that took me back a few years!

edit - note to self...look at date of post you are replying to..... :rolleyes:

Edited January 7, 2011 by popokiiti

January 7, 2011

This is not a funny sign, but it is an interesting sign that I had not seen before. Picture was taken this past summer while in Glacier National Park in British Columbia, Canada.

2.4k · January 7, 2011

This is not a funny sign, but it is an interesting sign that I had not seen before. Picture was taken this past summer while in Glacier National Park in British Columbia, Canada.

See they use small calibre stuff as well x2... maybe that was for small slides... I hope that was actually something else and just looks like bullet holes! Maybe the sign was recycled from outside the park.. or IS outside the park.

Doug 7rxc

January 7, 2011

This is not a funny sign, but it is an interesting sign that I had not seen before. Picture was taken this past summer while in Glacier National Park in British Columbia, Canada.

See they use small calibre stuff as well x2... maybe that was for small slides... I hope that was actually something else and just looks like bullet holes! Maybe the sign was recycled from outside the park.. or IS outside the park.

Doug 7rxc

In case you are interested, the exact location of this sign is the Balu Pass parking area, right off the Trans-Canada highway, not far from Rogers Pass.

January 7, 2011

Another similar sign located outside Castlegar, British Columbia (Also near a highway)

2.7k · January 7, 2011

Flashing green = pedestrian controlled light for crosswalk. It goes to solid green when the button is pressed, then yellow and red.

Signs in mainland Europe have a line through them when you're leaving a speed limit or town...that took me back a few years!

edit - note to self...look at date of post you are replying to.....

I will still never forget the first time I came to a stop light in Manitoba, and both the Green and the Red lights came on, at the same time. All the Ontario drivers on the Trans Canada Highway just sat there, me included, waiting for someone to figure out what we were supposed to do. Later figured out it was their version of a left turn advance signal.

... and yes a lot of us Ontario drivers make the mistake of thinking that flashing green light in downtown Vancouver is a left turn advance ....

1.5k · January 8, 2011

If your dog gets away at Swan Falls Dam, better have backup plan!

1k · January 9, 2011

These are two adjacent shops in a mall a few miles from the Hong Kong airport. I doubt the juxtaposition was intentional, but I thought it was interesting. Are you ready?

4.2k · January 9, 2011

Flashing green = pedestrian controlled light for crosswalk. It goes to solid green when the button is pressed, then yellow and red.

Signs in mainland Europe have a line through them when you're leaving a speed limit or town...that took me back a few years!

edit - note to self...look at date of post you are replying to.....

I will still never forget the first time I came to a stop light in Manitoba, and both the Green and the Red lights came on, at the same time. All the Ontario drivers on the Trans Canada Highway just sat there, me included, waiting for someone to figure out what we were supposed to do. Later figured out it was their version of a left turn advance signal.

... and yes a lot of us Ontario drivers make the mistake of thinking that flashing green light in downtown Vancouver is a left turn advance ....

i will never understand why the same country can't have the same signals lol

what about the right turn on red? if i'm not mistaken Ontario is the only one where is allowed

January 9, 2011

Flashing green = pedestrian controlled light for crosswalk. It goes to solid green when the button is pressed, then yellow and red.

Signs in mainland Europe have a line through them when you're leaving a speed limit or town...that took me back a few years!

edit - note to self...look at date of post you are replying to.....

I will still never forget the first time I came to a stop light in Manitoba, and both the Green and the Red lights came on, at the same time. All the Ontario drivers on the Trans Canada Highway just sat there, me included, waiting for someone to figure out what we were supposed to do. Later figured out it was their version of a left turn advance signal.

... and yes a lot of us Ontario drivers make the mistake of thinking that flashing green light in downtown Vancouver is a left turn advance ....

i will never understand why the same country can't have the same signals lol

what about the right turn on red? if i'm not mistaken Ontario is the only one where is allowed

You can make a right on red in everywhere in Canada, but Quebec only allows it in certain places which makes it confusing. I live in Nova Scotia and we can make a left turn on red in some places(one way road onto another one way road)

1k · January 13, 2012

Our ferries have these signs on car decks.

January 14, 2012

-- Found this picture on another forum, sorry can't give credit. BTW, this would be a great sign in any city.

-- Took this snap while geocaching near Kenora, Ontario. Wonder if Kramer drove around here.

-- This sign was in our neighbourhood for a year or so. I suppose one could consider it creative English but...

January 14, 2012

Wow, I wonder what happened to alarm that poor property! It must've been quite startled :laughing:

I saw a sign in Wales once that designated a crossing area for the blind. From the bus, it looked like all it was was a sign on a pole, like no braille or anything. If you can't see at all... how do you know that's your special crossing? Spidey senses? :unsure:

In my town we have this big G that's painted on a cliff face (instead of white rocks on a hill). One year during a peak tourist event, someone climbed up to the G and changed it to say "Go Away" :laughing: Everything but the G was removed very quickly :rolleyes:

January 14, 2012

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In Paris, we were at a metro station and there were like 5 of these in a row in a long hallway. These really confused me :huh:

To contribute:

This one is near a cache in my area. It's a bus stop called "Graveyard Selbach". The sign below says "exit only". Quite macabre :laughing:

Also, this one which is not photoshopped, but physically altered (and hasn't been changed for like a year now):

"leash sheeps" :anitongue:

6.7k · May 1, 2012

I'd like to see the car they use to pull over the speeders. :blink:

May 1, 2012

I'd like to see the car they use to pull over the speeders.

I swear occifer, I've only drinkededed two! *holds up 5 fingers*

3.4k · May 1, 2012

Saturday, at Henry Coe State Park, during Back Country Weekend hike to Mustang Peak

May 3, 2012

this one is up on a mountian in bc my friend found

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1.5k · May 3, 2012

We just saw this one a couple of days ago and it cracked us up!

Picture taken from the parking lot beside a country church.

Wheelchair accessible ... really...???

Edited May 3, 2012 by BC & MsKitty

May 5, 2012

I think this one speaks for itself.

May 7, 2012

Here is an odd sign I saw on a convenience store in Seam Reap Cambodia.

3.6k · May 7, 2012

May 7, 2012

South of Bowie TX -

May 7, 2012

I will have to go get a photo, but a baseball field, with a sign, No playing ball allowed.....

May 7, 2012

1.1k · June 5, 2012

this one I found 100m from a cache, offcourse it is made by a geocacher couple who live there,

I just like this sign.

June 7, 2012

We spotted this while looking for some urban geocaches last summer. The weirdo language is Norwegian, and the sign bluntly states "CLOSED because of nice weather". It was a hole-in-the-wall convenience store. Some folk have their priorities in just the right order

2k · June 7, 2012

I remember this one, hopefully no explanation is necessary. From Utah.

Edited June 7, 2012 by lamoracke

7.8k · June 7, 2012

I remember this one, hopefully no explanation is necessary. From Utah.

Wow, I know they charge for using public toilets in some places around the world, but $300!?! Seems a bit steep to me. :laughing:

19k · June 8, 2012

I remember this one, hopefully no explanation is necessary. From Utah.

Wow, I know they charge for using public toilets in some places around the world, but $300!?! Seems a bit steep to me.

Yeah, but the sign says that they are FINE toilets.

2k · June 8, 2012

it was a double sign meaning for us, the "No P'ing" reference was a double slap in the face, or somewhere else.

June 9, 2012

I wish I had a picture of this one, but I saw it in front of a Police station in Pittsburgh.

"No Parking Police cars only"

June 11, 2012

Aside from the obvious humor in the "penalties" at the bottom, I'm not sure what this sign in trying to say.

This lot is reserved if you are on the premises, but is not reserved if you are not on the premises?

It's illegal to NOT park here?

It's illegal to NOT park one of the listed vehicles, but the other vehicles are optional?

I'm so confused!!! :laughing:

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1k · June 11, 2012

I wish I had a picture of this one, but I saw it in front of a Police station in Pittsburgh.

"No Parking Police cars only"

I don't get it. Police cars park in front of police stations?

June 11, 2012

I wish I had a picture of this one, but I saw it in front of a Police station in Pittsburgh.

"No Parking Police cars only"

I don't get it. Police cars park in front of police stations?

Like I said i wish I had a picture, the sign made it look like you couldn't park police cars there.

6.7k · June 11, 2012

I thought police cars were always parked in front of donut shops.

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