Stop! and read the sign.

1. K
   September 30th, 2007 at 10:39 pm

   How typically American and pedantic to make light of a serious thing.
   Yeah it’s important to have a sense of humor, but really, isn’t this rather childish? How are you going to explain this to the kids? Oh, they’ll remember this moment, when the whole town’s signs went silly. They’ll remember.
   And the drunk drivers will be saying “Oh, I thought they were joke signs, not really serious about us actually reading them and understanding that they’re not jokes.”
   Nice.

2. meg
   September 30th, 2007 at 10:45 pm

   Wow. Chill out.

3. Vonskippy
   September 30th, 2007 at 11:04 pm

   Oh?…K

4. M
   September 30th, 2007 at 11:30 pm

   What an incredible douchebag.

5. Tempscire
   September 30th, 2007 at 11:35 pm

   I’m pretty sure K’s just trolling. I think.

6. meg
   October 1st, 2007 at 12:05 am

   we can only hope. anyway we have people who spraypaint HAMMERTIME under the stop on the signs in madison. pretty amusing, actually. the city doesn’t bother to pay people to clean it off cause there haven’t been any complaints yet.

7. Jsahko
   October 1st, 2007 at 12:06 am

   Seriously, if they took the money from this project and just had a police presence every once in a while giving out tickets to violators at these intersections they’d save money, lives, and make a more effective statement.

   It’s fine to take it lightly, but a cop showing up even every now and again gets the message across pretty quick “don’t cruise through this stop sign”. And if that doesn’t quite work the cost of the ticket for a moving violation as well as the added points to your insurance will speak volumes.

8. Eugenio Martínez Sierra
   October 1st, 2007 at 4:45 am

   Ey, weeks ago I was thinking about write “in the name of love” in the signals to make everybody think: “I hate that song” and pass away.

   I´m not liying…

9. JTPednaud
   October 1st, 2007 at 9:00 am

   I see a multitude of problems with this as well. I see people taking the signs less seriously and I doubt those who roll through stop signs fail to see the sign in the first place. Seems like a waste of time and money if this was intended as a serious campaign. The money would have been better spent in patrolling and driving re-education.

   If was done just for the fun of it though, then I’m for it.

10. Mark
    October 1st, 2007 at 9:21 am

    lol @ HAMMERTIME!

11. groksocket
    October 1st, 2007 at 10:21 am

    I think it’s a rather clever solution that will get the stop signs a bit more attention while not adding ill will towards cops as an overbearing cruiser presence might.

12. fouro
    October 1st, 2007 at 10:27 am

    @k

    dude, when every pompously official-sounding message of government already has the credibility of an arsonist giving fire-safety tips, you oughta think about the benefits of cutting through the clutter to reclaim some little bit of attention. Or you could just take a breath and take what seems like a much-needed vacation.

13. ted
    October 1st, 2007 at 9:58 pm

    Got to agree with the nay-sayers. Who cares about creating ill-will towards the police? They’re there to ticket people who aren’t obeying the law.

    And the possibility of people interpreting the stop signs themselves as fakes is too big a risk to take with people’s lives.

    “I’m sorry I ran over your daughter, but isn’t that a funny sign?”

14. josh
    October 1st, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    It’s in Oak Lawn, not Oakland, that’s why they didn’t think of Hammertime…

15. Mathieu
    October 3rd, 2007 at 2:10 pm

    they forgot: Stop!…Hammer time!…

16. The Slapster
    October 3rd, 2007 at 3:10 pm

    @Mathieu:

    Reading comprehension suffers yet another in a long series of slaps in the face.

17. Adam Stanhope
    October 4th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

    “Hammertime” stenciled beneath Stop signs never ceases to amuse me.

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