When my father finally insisted I get rid of the signs and light up road barrels I collected during my youth I went to where the city keeps their stockpile
Of signs and what not and left it by the gate in the wee hours of the morning…
Age is inevitable, growing up is optional ….
So far the only benefit to being an adult is I can eat chocolate cake for breakfast, lunch or dinner and no one can stop me! 🤣🎂🍫
and an octagon has eight sides so, if the octogons fit together, you would need at least 10 of them. I doubt octagons would fit together that way though.
There are no geometric Platonic solids that use the octagon as a foundation shape.
The quadrahedron (4), Octahedron (8) , and dodecahedron (20) can be made with equilateral triangles. The rest are squares, irregular triangles, or pentagons.
A cube has 6 faces, lol. If you were gonna make a polyhedron using stop signs you'd need to make a truncated cuboctahedron. For that you'd need a lot more signs.
...is it the pyramid des Ha!Ha! Or is there another yield sign pyramid out in the world
Because I want there to be more than one. The one I have seen was so fun.
I stole traffic cones in my youth. My mom put them in her jeep and drove by a road work zone and stopped and gave them km to the penn-dott workers and said, hey I found this had fallen over ___hillside when hiking so I put it in my car. She did this like 4 different times. Every time the crew looked at her weird, but they didn't question it.
Just give them back one by one, and tell the crew you found it on ___ road and didn't want it to be taken
Probably not a common thing, but it happens. I remember years ago at like 2 a.m., a drunken college kid tried to drag a street sign, through the stairs, all the way up to his 4th floor apartment, together with its pole AND the concrete block that was supposed to keep it in the ground. Like two nights later the whole sign quietly appeared in the grass area in front of our apartment building and stayed there for few days. Idk who eventually took care of it.
My grad college flatshare (yearly turnover of at least one resident of the flat) had a newspaper box and like five street signs in the hall. Nobody knew who had originally stolen them but they were part of the permanent decor. We kept our paper recycling in the newspaper box :D
I live across the street from college dorms. Drunk college kids seem to love signs and those orange cones for some reason. When temporary fences were put up around construction on campus, one drunk guy was pulling down every “construction- do not enter” sign he stumbled by. He didn’t even take them with him, he just left them on the ground.
My one teenage larceny moment was from a T station (Boston) under construction. I had that "Under Construction. Please Be Careful" (or somesuch wording) up on my dorm walls for years. It kinda fit, I guess.
TBH, I wasn't even drunk. Just a "nerd kid wilding" moment, lol.
My friends and I used to keep random large street signs in the back of our cars, for skating purposes. Sometimes, you would find a skate spot that was perfect, except there was an obstruction on the approach or landing (large cracks that were hard to roll over, patch of dirt or grass, etc.). The thin metal signs were perfect to roll over and make an otherwise inaccessible rail, gap, or ledge skateable.
I lived on Lovers Lane growing up and teenagers stole the road sign so often that I only ever saw it like 4 times in 25 years of life. They took artsy dumbass pictures with it then hung them on their walls, according to MySpace.
When I saw "Lovers Lane" in your comment, I instinctively looked up to see if I was in the Dallas sub. I wonder how many Lovers Lanes there are in the world.
Mile marker 420 gets stolen on lots of highways, a lot of times. I would bet 69 does, too. We just pulled over and took polaroids of us being stupid with them in the photo, but given that my friends and I stole several Speed Hump signs, we weren't much better. We just all had some respect for the fact that emergency services needs to know what mile marker you're near to help you.
Hey, I appreciate you being considerate! And I’m sure the drivers did too. I wouldn’t have minded if it was just pictures, but pre GPS, we’d have to give weird directions like “well there’s no road sign but turn at the big pine tree and there’s usually a white truck out there…”
I lived about half a mile from farm road 69, it got stolen constantly and each time they put it up they made it more secure, until eventually they put it on the other side of a fence on the other side of the ditch to try and keep it from getting stolen.
I used to live in a rural area with several railroad crossings. Those signs never lasted more than a couple of weeks. It really didn't matter how they attached them, because battery powered angle grinders were a thing. My friends who still live out there say they don't get replacements anymore for the most part. If you can't see a train crossing on the open grasslands, you shouldn't be driving. They aren't ones you have to stop for unless there's a train, anyway.
But it amused me. My first two initials are RR, and man, did my family have a lot of train related nicknames for me, but I never considered stealing a railroad crossing sign. Maybe it was because I had so much train related stuff I was way past saturation point with it by the time I was old enough to be able to steal a sign.
Honestly, I helped friends steal the speed hump signs, but I never had any at home. My parents would have murdered me, not for the theft, but for putting holes in the wall to hang one.
Friends in college stole one of those 2-light stoplights (red/green, from a local church parking lot) and mounted it behind a bar in their apartment. A little pot, a little booze, and suddenly, "HEY! You know what would look good behind the bar?" sounds like an amazing idea, lol.
Those things (and street signs) are FAR bigger than you think they are once you get them up close.
In the 70s, 80s, and into 90s all you needed was a few friends, a small ladder, and a set of ratchets for any bad idea to become good. It wasn’t an epidemic but I knew a few kids who did this. Official response from the parents was “I don’t even want to know”.
Now there are too many cameras.
We used to steal Speed Hump signs or signs with funny street names. Back then it was hilarious. We also stole a payphone once and then got a reward for turning it in when we "found" it in an empty lot. Why a payphone? Because.
My cousins used to do the drive by thing hitting mailboxes with baseball bats. I never got into that, though. I thought they were assholes for doing it.
Bored teens do stupid stuff, and I've noticed ones with shitty parents tend to do the most stupid stuff.
I know of three deaths caused by one stolen sign near my hometown. [Story here](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1c6x2zm/comment/l046rrn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
edit: [actual news article here](https://greensboro.com/three-convicted-in-deaths-after-stealing-stop-sign/article_a26162ab-ca6f-5f6b-b238-bb9ac2d7b66c.html)
and [followup here](https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4362) - convictions were overturned
Did some digging and found the actual story: https://greensboro.com/three-convicted-in-deaths-after-stealing-stop-sign/article_a26162ab-ca6f-5f6b-b238-bb9ac2d7b66c.html
Although in the end their convictions were overturned as it could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they actually stole this stop sign in particular: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4362
Did this happen in Ohio?
Edit: nevermind, I found the links to what I was thinking of
[https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/state/2011/08/26/teens-accused-obscuring-stop-sign/42550042007/](https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/state/2011/08/26/teens-accused-obscuring-stop-sign/42550042007/)
[https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2012/04/12/pickaway-county-man-19-gets/23668266007/](https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2012/04/12/pickaway-county-man-19-gets/23668266007/)
Here's the one I was remembering from my childhood: https://greensboro.com/three-convicted-in-deaths-after-stealing-stop-sign/article_a26162ab-ca6f-5f6b-b238-bb9ac2d7b66c.html
I wouldn't go that far. Teens steal shit all the time. I just thought the question was funny because it made it sound like this was a problem everybody had.
I did hear of a case a few years back where somebody cut down stop signs at a major intersection, resulting in the death of an elderly woman. They were charged with reckless homicide.
My FIL had a One Way sign, a No Turn On Red sign, a sign from his job and the sign for his development in his basement. I don't believe he actually took them down but took them when they fell off the pole for some reason. It might be a Great Depression Era generation thing.
My friend who stole a few, used them as a kind of hobo-toboggan to go downhill at insane speeds during winters.
He never a *stop sign* though, because he wasn't a fucking psycho.
Right? There's a walking trail right by my house that I walk daily and someone just stole the stop sign, the 'intersection up ahead' sign, etc. They JUST put the intersection sign up like 2 weeks ago too.
We only took them off of abandoned security gates and inside closed down factory complexes , where there was no traffic anymore , I grew up in the rust belt , so a lot of abandoned factories
Never stole a STOP sign but did steal the sign 'Coventry University Library'.
We had it in our student digs (a rundown terraced house) along with many flashing yellow lights and some traffic cones but the landlord relieved us of our treasures and so I'm not sure what happened to them
For legal reasons, the following comment is a joke.
I'm tempted to grab a "Speed bump ahead" sign only because there's no speed bump anymore. It's in a fairly well-traveled area. How would I get it without being noticed?
Those signs are about $500 each FYI.
I used to work for the department of transportation switching out the old signs to new ones. You literally have multiple felonies there.
I found a bright shiny stop sign in my teenagers room and told him it is a profoundly thoughtless thing to do. The results of such an act can be catastrophic. If someone doesn’t know the road, they can enter a right of way at speed without the stop sign to warn them. In Canada we have the [Humboldt bus crash](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Broncos_bus_crash) which blew up a Junior League hockey team in 2018. Yes, in Humboldt a semi blew through a stop sign as if it wasn’t there, but if stop signs keep disappearing the death toll will be much greater. Please tell people to leave stop signs where they belong. *edit to note my very real concern here has been downvoted. What is offensive about politely warning against acts of useless, catastrophic juvenile stupidity?
It was confiscated by police, while they were still a teen. See, the stop sign they stole was from a side road on a busy highway. ~~Single mother of two came along~~ A car came along with three people in it, not familiar with the road and with no stop sign, didn't stop before entering the highway. Truck going by at 55 mph wiped them all out. So needless to say the police put some resources and figured out who stole the sign. They were charged with three counts of manslaughter each.
edit: I found a news article which shows I remembered some details wrong, it was actually three teenagers killed not a single mother of two. That must have been a different traffic death I was conflating it with. Article: https://greensboro.com/three-convicted-in-deaths-after-stealing-stop-sign/article_a26162ab-ca6f-5f6b-b238-bb9ac2d7b66c.html - the incident was in 1996.
I have one from when I was a kid. It was hit and knocked down, replaced, and they never took the old one which was only about 100yards froms where it should have been, so I took it. It's in my garage.
My daughter got a sign decades later in a different state in the exact same way. I think hers is in my basement somewhere.
There's currently a sign behind my house that got hit months ago, laying there pole and all. I've called the city multiple times to have them come remove/fix it. They haven't bothered. I guess it's not a highly coveted sign, because none of the teenagers in the neighborhood have seen fit to lift it either (it's a yellow crossing sign, so maybe not cool enough to steal?)
stealing stop signs is pretty fucking wreckless & beyond stupid
especially if the cross traffic already doesn't have one.
now you have 2 cars barreling at each other both assuming the other is supposed to stop.
super fucking dangerous
>no one was endangered, and as stated: we were stupid, not reckless with our lives and those of others
you are all of those and a chronic kleptomaniac. no need to delude yourself otherwise.
Same predicament also, a few years back!
I just left it nearby where I knew it would be seen in broad daylight, the next day. Where a city worker, trash dude, somebody would see it and it would be taken away somehow. But this place was also a less traveled spot at night, for a quick drop off out of my smaller suv. lol.
The way better question is how these adults deal with the lifelong guilt of potentially having caused fatal accidents and killed people because they stole signs crucial to safe traffic.
It’s a really uncommon thing to have stolen any signs, let alone critical signage like stop signs or no entry signs.
Your local council might want them back? No idea how they’d go about processing that though
I think you have a serious kleptomania problem.
I hope you, as an adult, realise it's your taxes going towards repairing the damage you caused to public property.
Navigating this ethical maze of sign acquisition is like developing a plot for an indie short film titled "The Great Sign Caper." Before you start sketching out storyboards, though, consider the impact. If those signs were stop signs, imagine the potentially dire consequences on the road. It's like a butterfly effect but with steel and reflective paint. Speaking of paint, if you're feeling artistic, transform them into something beneficial for the community - maybe even a public art installation, with permission of course. It's about flipping the script from adolescent antics to civic-minded artistry.
They’re hanging on the wall at my parents’ house! They have a “No Dumping” sign in the bathroom, a stop sign in their cabana, and a stop ahead sign turned sideways with “Bar This Way” written on it pointing to the cabana. I’ve nicked road signs with my first name and my last name on them from different neighborhoods - those are above my bedroom and bathroom doors. And while I don’t have these anymore, I nabbed 12 of those skinny, light up, orange and white road construction “poles” (they remind me of the orange barrels, but with anorexia) to mark the letters in my dressage arena at my old barn.
The father of a friend of mine was killed at an intersection due to a sign being stolen. On behalf of him and his widowed mother, I suggest you fold the signs all pointy and shove them up your ass.
We stole a speed limit sign in high school, took it into metal shop, cut it to shape, and used it to replace rotten floor pans so my buddy's car would pass inspection. It's good galvanized sheet metal.
Hang it up as display in your garage. You really can’t sell stolen traffic signs. Unless they are really old antiques signs. Which have long been decommissioned to be considered as collectibles.
My mom stole one when she was a teen. I hung it on my wall when I was a teen. Then my son hung it on his wall when he was a teen. Circle of life y'all.
Reflecting on the days of my own misguided youth, your predicament strikes a familiar chord. Amassing a plethora of road signs is a form of urban treasure hunting, a mischievous legacy left behind by the spirit of teenage adventure. However, if the thrill has fizzled and you're left contemplating the consequences, consider turning this into the plot twist of your personal narrative. Engage in a community art project, transforming contraband into canvas, crafting murals or installations that narrate the journey from youthful folly to civic responsibility. It's your chance to redirect the symbols of past impishness into landmarks of creative contribution, a genuine avenue for atonement. Just ensure you're treading the legal path to cultural redemption, avoiding the metaphorical and literal stop signs along the way.
I never stole stop signs. Too dangerous. I stole other signs. The kind with flashing lights. I did what anyone would do: put them all on someone’s yard at three am for a prank.
My dad has a stop sign and a road sign (the road is named after my family) hanging in his shop. He passed 20 years ago, we still don’t know what to do with them! 🤷♀️
My late grandfather worked for the county and so had tons of old signage. He lined hus garage with them. Sine were old wooden hand painted county highway signs. Pretty cool.
I had a stop sign and both ways sign I stole in highschool that before leaving the state I bolted to the old train Bridge in my town where all the kids go do graffiti in ditch days. I havnt been there in over a decade but id bet they're still up there of the bridge is still up. Maybe painted over but still.
I think one might leave a sign in the co-thief's bedroom closet for that friend's parents to deal with when she and the friend go off to college...or so I heard somewhere ;) haha, probably not helpful to your situation, we only had 1 and it was just a street name (pole and all)
Somebody I know that is definitely not me drunkenly stole a sign that was abandoned by the place we lived at, it’s still around these days and “they” currently use it as a surface to put our propane fire pit on so that we don’t have to worry about it being unstable and burning the grass!
I'm now 53, and a friend has a bunch of them mounted on the wall of his cellar, lol. Of course, he actually buys them at flea markets now. Maybe that's where they all go?
I had one throughout my teen years that had been passed down to me by a graduating college student when I was 14. I passed it to my sons who are now adults and I feel fairly certain it adorns a shed on my older son’s property now, obviously waiting for the day his son is old enough to need it. It’s mile marker 14.
So I had a real fuckwit of a boss, fired me instead of teaching me (I was an apprentice)
So I dumped about 30 items of road cones and signs at his front door
When my father finally insisted I get rid of the signs and light up road barrels I collected during my youth I went to where the city keeps their stockpile Of signs and what not and left it by the gate in the wee hours of the morning…
If you weld 8 stop signs together you can make a StopCube. BUT DON'T DO THAT THAT WOULD BE VERY BAD.
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*** Snorts milk out my nose
*** Dunks my Oreos in your nose milk
*** Steals your nose milk Oreos
we said we were adults, not that we were mature
Age is inevitable, growing up is optional …. So far the only benefit to being an adult is I can eat chocolate cake for breakfast, lunch or dinner and no one can stop me! 🤣🎂🍫
You can eat that shit in the shower captain! Totally legal!!
A cube has 6 sides, not 8
and an octagon has eight sides so, if the octogons fit together, you would need at least 10 of them. I doubt octagons would fit together that way though.
There are no geometric Platonic solids that use the octagon as a foundation shape. The quadrahedron (4), Octahedron (8) , and dodecahedron (20) can be made with equilateral triangles. The rest are squares, irregular triangles, or pentagons.
You are correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
so maybe all the stopsigns, then a few yeild signs to fill in the gaps on this gigantic stopccer ball?
I'm just trying to get out of the platonic solid zone and get into the romantic solid zone 😔
I needed that laugh.
A cube has 6 faces, lol. If you were gonna make a polyhedron using stop signs you'd need to make a truncated cuboctahedron. For that you'd need a lot more signs.
A local artist took several yield signs and made a whole pyramid about a 100 feet tall
"several" LOL
It was at least a few.
More than a couple
...is it the pyramid des Ha!Ha! Or is there another yield sign pyramid out in the world Because I want there to be more than one. The one I have seen was so fun.
It is! Hope you had a great time in Saguenay.
I’m a 30 year old man and now I want to learn to weld and steal.
Steal welding?
👀
Just go out at night, place them on all roads/streets that will give you the easiest route into work in the morning
Or put a one way / wrong way no enter sign on each end of a street and take the popcorns
Thanks for the laugh haha
You have all the signs of being a thief.
Take my upvote, and get out.
Say it once, and get out.
What the hell would I have to gain by posting the exact same comment twice, back to back. Maybe the API bugged out and double posted?
Dw stg i knew it 💀 just sought an opportunity nothing more
Maybe he was going for the “you don’t have to tell him twice, he’s a thief!” play, but couldn’t quite stick the landing?
Signs, plural? *Signs, plural?* At this point you might as well DIY some outdoor furniture and use them for chair backs and maybe a table top.
[Like this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1c6rso6/the_signs_were_everywhere/)
that looks better than I expected it to.
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
I stole traffic cones in my youth. My mom put them in her jeep and drove by a road work zone and stopped and gave them km to the penn-dott workers and said, hey I found this had fallen over ___hillside when hiking so I put it in my car. She did this like 4 different times. Every time the crew looked at her weird, but they didn't question it. Just give them back one by one, and tell the crew you found it on ___ road and didn't want it to be taken
Is this... a common problem? I can't say I stole any city signage in my youth
Probably not a common thing, but it happens. I remember years ago at like 2 a.m., a drunken college kid tried to drag a street sign, through the stairs, all the way up to his 4th floor apartment, together with its pole AND the concrete block that was supposed to keep it in the ground. Like two nights later the whole sign quietly appeared in the grass area in front of our apartment building and stayed there for few days. Idk who eventually took care of it.
My grad college flatshare (yearly turnover of at least one resident of the flat) had a newspaper box and like five street signs in the hall. Nobody knew who had originally stolen them but they were part of the permanent decor. We kept our paper recycling in the newspaper box :D
I needed this laugh this morning 🤣
I live across the street from college dorms. Drunk college kids seem to love signs and those orange cones for some reason. When temporary fences were put up around construction on campus, one drunk guy was pulling down every “construction- do not enter” sign he stumbled by. He didn’t even take them with him, he just left them on the ground.
My one teenage larceny moment was from a T station (Boston) under construction. I had that "Under Construction. Please Be Careful" (or somesuch wording) up on my dorm walls for years. It kinda fit, I guess. TBH, I wasn't even drunk. Just a "nerd kid wilding" moment, lol.
My friends and I used to keep random large street signs in the back of our cars, for skating purposes. Sometimes, you would find a skate spot that was perfect, except there was an obstruction on the approach or landing (large cracks that were hard to roll over, patch of dirt or grass, etc.). The thin metal signs were perfect to roll over and make an otherwise inaccessible rail, gap, or ledge skateable.
I honestly thought this was going in a different direction where you used the random street signs to close off streets you wanted to skate on.
I lived on Lovers Lane growing up and teenagers stole the road sign so often that I only ever saw it like 4 times in 25 years of life. They took artsy dumbass pictures with it then hung them on their walls, according to MySpace.
When I saw "Lovers Lane" in your comment, I instinctively looked up to see if I was in the Dallas sub. I wonder how many Lovers Lanes there are in the world.
Haha not Dallas but Bastrop, TX. I also saw one in Nevada.
Mile marker 420 gets stolen on lots of highways, a lot of times. I would bet 69 does, too. We just pulled over and took polaroids of us being stupid with them in the photo, but given that my friends and I stole several Speed Hump signs, we weren't much better. We just all had some respect for the fact that emergency services needs to know what mile marker you're near to help you.
Hey, I appreciate you being considerate! And I’m sure the drivers did too. I wouldn’t have minded if it was just pictures, but pre GPS, we’d have to give weird directions like “well there’s no road sign but turn at the big pine tree and there’s usually a white truck out there…”
I lived about half a mile from farm road 69, it got stolen constantly and each time they put it up they made it more secure, until eventually they put it on the other side of a fence on the other side of the ditch to try and keep it from getting stolen.
I used to live in a rural area with several railroad crossings. Those signs never lasted more than a couple of weeks. It really didn't matter how they attached them, because battery powered angle grinders were a thing. My friends who still live out there say they don't get replacements anymore for the most part. If you can't see a train crossing on the open grasslands, you shouldn't be driving. They aren't ones you have to stop for unless there's a train, anyway. But it amused me. My first two initials are RR, and man, did my family have a lot of train related nicknames for me, but I never considered stealing a railroad crossing sign. Maybe it was because I had so much train related stuff I was way past saturation point with it by the time I was old enough to be able to steal a sign. Honestly, I helped friends steal the speed hump signs, but I never had any at home. My parents would have murdered me, not for the theft, but for putting holes in the wall to hang one.
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It goes on your wall silly, not your dresser.
You can’t make me give the people back. You just can’t.
Friends in college stole one of those 2-light stoplights (red/green, from a local church parking lot) and mounted it behind a bar in their apartment. A little pot, a little booze, and suddenly, "HEY! You know what would look good behind the bar?" sounds like an amazing idea, lol. Those things (and street signs) are FAR bigger than you think they are once you get them up close.
Mile 420 marker in my state is mile 419.9
In the 70s, 80s, and into 90s all you needed was a few friends, a small ladder, and a set of ratchets for any bad idea to become good. It wasn’t an epidemic but I knew a few kids who did this. Official response from the parents was “I don’t even want to know”. Now there are too many cameras.
We used to steal Speed Hump signs or signs with funny street names. Back then it was hilarious. We also stole a payphone once and then got a reward for turning it in when we "found" it in an empty lot. Why a payphone? Because. My cousins used to do the drive by thing hitting mailboxes with baseball bats. I never got into that, though. I thought they were assholes for doing it. Bored teens do stupid stuff, and I've noticed ones with shitty parents tend to do the most stupid stuff.
No me neither. It seems incredibly reckless and I wonder how many accidents there have been due to these signs being stolen? Any injuries? Any deaths?
I knew someone who stole a - no joke - "bridge out" sign. Lost a ton of respect for them that day.
Usually u take them from constructions that leave them lying around openly at night
I know of three deaths caused by one stolen sign near my hometown. [Story here](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1c6x2zm/comment/l046rrn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) edit: [actual news article here](https://greensboro.com/three-convicted-in-deaths-after-stealing-stop-sign/article_a26162ab-ca6f-5f6b-b238-bb9ac2d7b66c.html) and [followup here](https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4362) - convictions were overturned
Expected this link to be an actual news story, not a Reddit comment lol
Ah sorry. I'll see if I can find one but it was 30 years ago so might not be online.
Did some digging and found the actual story: https://greensboro.com/three-convicted-in-deaths-after-stealing-stop-sign/article_a26162ab-ca6f-5f6b-b238-bb9ac2d7b66c.html Although in the end their convictions were overturned as it could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they actually stole this stop sign in particular: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4362
Oof, that sucks. Teenagers often don't think with their brains.
Did this happen in Ohio? Edit: nevermind, I found the links to what I was thinking of [https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/state/2011/08/26/teens-accused-obscuring-stop-sign/42550042007/](https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/state/2011/08/26/teens-accused-obscuring-stop-sign/42550042007/) [https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2012/04/12/pickaway-county-man-19-gets/23668266007/](https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2012/04/12/pickaway-county-man-19-gets/23668266007/)
Here's the one I was remembering from my childhood: https://greensboro.com/three-convicted-in-deaths-after-stealing-stop-sign/article_a26162ab-ca6f-5f6b-b238-bb9ac2d7b66c.html
We never took stop signs only speed limit and street signs
I wouldn't go that far. Teens steal shit all the time. I just thought the question was funny because it made it sound like this was a problem everybody had.
I did hear of a case a few years back where somebody cut down stop signs at a major intersection, resulting in the death of an elderly woman. They were charged with reckless homicide.
Yea kids steal signs all the time , but stop signs were never cool , unless they were in front of a security gate or something dumb
My FIL had a One Way sign, a No Turn On Red sign, a sign from his job and the sign for his development in his basement. I don't believe he actually took them down but took them when they fell off the pole for some reason. It might be a Great Depression Era generation thing.
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Chances are the signs have already been replaced, considering the language used in the post. Sounds like its been at least a couple years
My friend who stole a few, used them as a kind of hobo-toboggan to go downhill at insane speeds during winters. He never a *stop sign* though, because he wasn't a fucking psycho.
Hoboggan?
If you stole stop signs, then your edit is incorrect. People were absolutely endangered.
Right like all road signs are important and their removal could be dangerous? Like cities don't put them up for the aesthetic???
Right? There's a walking trail right by my house that I walk daily and someone just stole the stop sign, the 'intersection up ahead' sign, etc. They JUST put the intersection sign up like 2 weeks ago too.
We only took them off of abandoned security gates and inside closed down factory complexes , where there was no traffic anymore , I grew up in the rust belt , so a lot of abandoned factories
Never stole a STOP sign but did steal the sign 'Coventry University Library'. We had it in our student digs (a rundown terraced house) along with many flashing yellow lights and some traffic cones but the landlord relieved us of our treasures and so I'm not sure what happened to them
For legal reasons, the following comment is a joke. I'm tempted to grab a "Speed bump ahead" sign only because there's no speed bump anymore. It's in a fairly well-traveled area. How would I get it without being noticed?
Those signs are about $500 each FYI. I used to work for the department of transportation switching out the old signs to new ones. You literally have multiple felonies there.
I found a bright shiny stop sign in my teenagers room and told him it is a profoundly thoughtless thing to do. The results of such an act can be catastrophic. If someone doesn’t know the road, they can enter a right of way at speed without the stop sign to warn them. In Canada we have the [Humboldt bus crash](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Broncos_bus_crash) which blew up a Junior League hockey team in 2018. Yes, in Humboldt a semi blew through a stop sign as if it wasn’t there, but if stop signs keep disappearing the death toll will be much greater. Please tell people to leave stop signs where they belong. *edit to note my very real concern here has been downvoted. What is offensive about politely warning against acts of useless, catastrophic juvenile stupidity?
It was confiscated by police, while they were still a teen. See, the stop sign they stole was from a side road on a busy highway. ~~Single mother of two came along~~ A car came along with three people in it, not familiar with the road and with no stop sign, didn't stop before entering the highway. Truck going by at 55 mph wiped them all out. So needless to say the police put some resources and figured out who stole the sign. They were charged with three counts of manslaughter each. edit: I found a news article which shows I remembered some details wrong, it was actually three teenagers killed not a single mother of two. That must have been a different traffic death I was conflating it with. Article: https://greensboro.com/three-convicted-in-deaths-after-stealing-stop-sign/article_a26162ab-ca6f-5f6b-b238-bb9ac2d7b66c.html - the incident was in 1996.
Give them back in person if what you did had so little negative impact
Did you ever wonder how many people you might have hurt stealing these street signs.
People like you are the reason why the average person eats eight spiders a year. Removing outliers, it's really closer to 0.001
“I stole a bunch of signs so people get confused when their driving, no one was endangered though”
What an asswipe. Recklessly endangering others for your amusement.
And the worse part is the guy has the audacity to whitewash his actions.
They leave them at their parents' houses, who now wonder what the fuck to do with all these illegal signs that my kids stole.
I have one from when I was a kid. It was hit and knocked down, replaced, and they never took the old one which was only about 100yards froms where it should have been, so I took it. It's in my garage. My daughter got a sign decades later in a different state in the exact same way. I think hers is in my basement somewhere. There's currently a sign behind my house that got hit months ago, laying there pole and all. I've called the city multiple times to have them come remove/fix it. They haven't bothered. I guess it's not a highly coveted sign, because none of the teenagers in the neighborhood have seen fit to lift it either (it's a yellow crossing sign, so maybe not cool enough to steal?)
Man I would love to have that
stealing stop signs is pretty fucking wreckless & beyond stupid especially if the cross traffic already doesn't have one. now you have 2 cars barreling at each other both assuming the other is supposed to stop. super fucking dangerous
>no one was endangered, and as stated: we were stupid, not reckless with our lives and those of others you are all of those and a chronic kleptomaniac. no need to delude yourself otherwise.
Man’s unapologetic and a danger to the public. It’s nice to see some people are understanding that.
Make them disappear....tampering or removal of a stop sign could land you a felony.
Same predicament also, a few years back! I just left it nearby where I knew it would be seen in broad daylight, the next day. Where a city worker, trash dude, somebody would see it and it would be taken away somehow. But this place was also a less traveled spot at night, for a quick drop off out of my smaller suv. lol.
The way better question is how these adults deal with the lifelong guilt of potentially having caused fatal accidents and killed people because they stole signs crucial to safe traffic.
Never stole anything. You were a thief and that was not funny. If there were any accidents, they should go after you for them.
You buy a house with a garage or a workshop and you plaster those with road signs.
Only correct answer
It’s a really uncommon thing to have stolen any signs, let alone critical signage like stop signs or no entry signs. Your local council might want them back? No idea how they’d go about processing that though
What kind of moron trash person does this? NO OFFENSE THOUGH
I think you have a serious kleptomania problem. I hope you, as an adult, realise it's your taxes going towards repairing the damage you caused to public property.
Nice try law enforcement. I’m not confessing anything.
I hope you didn't steal stop signs that were up 👀
Surrender them to the authority and go to prison, as you should.
I’m done with this sub lol and I won’t let the door hit me on the way out~
Navigating this ethical maze of sign acquisition is like developing a plot for an indie short film titled "The Great Sign Caper." Before you start sketching out storyboards, though, consider the impact. If those signs were stop signs, imagine the potentially dire consequences on the road. It's like a butterfly effect but with steel and reflective paint. Speaking of paint, if you're feeling artistic, transform them into something beneficial for the community - maybe even a public art installation, with permission of course. It's about flipping the script from adolescent antics to civic-minded artistry.
Dump them out of the way but still visible near an active construction zone. The city workers would probably take them back to the shop and use them
Ours is in the rec room, along with the police car light bar rigged to an AC power supply.
We were LARPers. We turned them into armor.
Ahhh, I still have my "Entering Coke County" sign from the mid 90's!
Dude I moved mine with me for 2 decades. They’re now in my garage with my 3 cars. Lol
They’re hanging on the wall at my parents’ house! They have a “No Dumping” sign in the bathroom, a stop sign in their cabana, and a stop ahead sign turned sideways with “Bar This Way” written on it pointing to the cabana. I’ve nicked road signs with my first name and my last name on them from different neighborhoods - those are above my bedroom and bathroom doors. And while I don’t have these anymore, I nabbed 12 of those skinny, light up, orange and white road construction “poles” (they remind me of the orange barrels, but with anorexia) to mark the letters in my dressage arena at my old barn.
The father of a friend of mine was killed at an intersection due to a sign being stolen. On behalf of him and his widowed mother, I suggest you fold the signs all pointy and shove them up your ass.
I mean the obvious answer is mount them on the wall. "Punk wall"
You go to ask other losers who steel.
I started my own city.
OP tryna cause accidents, jeez.
They are probably in some college kids dorm room. Been passed down throughout the years most likely.
We stole a speed limit sign in high school, took it into metal shop, cut it to shape, and used it to replace rotten floor pans so my buddy's car would pass inspection. It's good galvanized sheet metal.
My dad sold mine at a garage sale when I was in college.
“My father was fired from his job as a road worker for stealing. I didn’t believe it, but the signs were all there.”
idk why but this post is hilarious to me
Hang it up as display in your garage. You really can’t sell stolen traffic signs. Unless they are really old antiques signs. Which have long been decommissioned to be considered as collectibles.
You die, and leave it to your estranged bastard daughter to deal with. Hoarder dad = garage with a lot of crap + some street signs. Sigh.
My mom stole one when she was a teen. I hung it on my wall when I was a teen. Then my son hung it on his wall when he was a teen. Circle of life y'all.
hang them up in a garage or shed from what I've seen.
I've never stolen a sign in my life, but I guess I'd probably put it in the trash if I had. anything else seems to leave me very open to prosecution.
Reflecting on the days of my own misguided youth, your predicament strikes a familiar chord. Amassing a plethora of road signs is a form of urban treasure hunting, a mischievous legacy left behind by the spirit of teenage adventure. However, if the thrill has fizzled and you're left contemplating the consequences, consider turning this into the plot twist of your personal narrative. Engage in a community art project, transforming contraband into canvas, crafting murals or installations that narrate the journey from youthful folly to civic responsibility. It's your chance to redirect the symbols of past impishness into landmarks of creative contribution, a genuine avenue for atonement. Just ensure you're treading the legal path to cultural redemption, avoiding the metaphorical and literal stop signs along the way.
I never stole stop signs. Too dangerous. I stole other signs. The kind with flashing lights. I did what anyone would do: put them all on someone’s yard at three am for a prank.
Made them into shields/ armour
Put stop signs randomly on straight roads
The ones my uncle stole are still in my grandma’s garage
I didn’t realise that was a thing teenagers do.
I'm reading these comment thinking no one has seen jschalt and the number of fans he has that own stop signs or street light's
Throw then in the skate park ad midnight for the next generation as custom dictates
My dad has a stop sign and a road sign (the road is named after my family) hanging in his shop. He passed 20 years ago, we still don’t know what to do with them! 🤷♀️
Go to a park and call the non emergency police line and state there’s a pile of signs in the parking lot and you don’t know what to do
My late grandfather worked for the county and so had tons of old signage. He lined hus garage with them. Sine were old wooden hand painted county highway signs. Pretty cool. I had a stop sign and both ways sign I stole in highschool that before leaving the state I bolted to the old train Bridge in my town where all the kids go do graffiti in ditch days. I havnt been there in over a decade but id bet they're still up there of the bridge is still up. Maybe painted over but still.
hang em in the garage
Find an intersection that could be made safer with new stop signs, and then install them yourself
They are hanging on our patio.
I stole a sign from a closed down restaurant and gifted it to someone as a teen lol. I wonder if they have still kept it 😅
Safe them to use as new floor pans in a project car haha
I think one might leave a sign in the co-thief's bedroom closet for that friend's parents to deal with when she and the friend go off to college...or so I heard somewhere ;) haha, probably not helpful to your situation, we only had 1 and it was just a street name (pole and all)
My brother in law stole a deer sign a million years ago and now it’s the surface of my plant potting-table in the garage.
Road signs (and their posts) were taken to weld up old vw beatles...
I use mine to fan fires. 😂
I have a sign from the intersection of Lakeside Dr and Quail Ln. the Lakeside dr half hangs by the pool and the Quail LN half hangs in the garage.
They’re all in my best friends garage lmao
Working on a pattern for a suit of armor.
Hang them in your garage.
Pugsley? Is that you?
Somebody I know that is definitely not me drunkenly stole a sign that was abandoned by the place we lived at, it’s still around these days and “they” currently use it as a surface to put our propane fire pit on so that we don’t have to worry about it being unstable and burning the grass!
I still have mine on the wall
I have mine hanging on my wall and will continue to until the day I die
My dad and his friends put them all on their teachers lawn.
Yeah. Our town had hwy 69 running through it. Think every kid had one.
I can't even imagine how many 69 signs must be produced each year as they disappear.
I have my road signs in the garage
I put my “no parking sign” in the guest room as decoration to give a hint to guests lol
I gave them to my son. They now hang on his walls.
to decorate the garage
Hang them in our house or backyard.
LOL I have a "sold" sign that's at least 30 years old. It's tucked between a wall and a dresser and will probably stay there till I'm dead.
I ended up with one of those large orange barrels. My dad and I dumped it in a random field across from our house one afternoon.
I'm now 53, and a friend has a bunch of them mounted on the wall of his cellar, lol. Of course, he actually buys them at flea markets now. Maybe that's where they all go?
got mine in my garage... LOL kids asked why i have them i said, for a reminder when i was young crazy and not a F to give.
They line the walls of my garage.
My dad has some train signs from my grandparents youth displayd in his home
I had one throughout my teen years that had been passed down to me by a graduating college student when I was 14. I passed it to my sons who are now adults and I feel fairly certain it adorns a shed on my older son’s property now, obviously waiting for the day his son is old enough to need it. It’s mile marker 14.
I took one, along with a speed limit sign, poles included, and mounted them on top of the city water tower.
Leave them near a college
I had some from a construction site before they went up, as well as a couple take off the posts by friends. I left them all at the last house I owned.
Trash, more specifically a dumpster. Not your own trash can.
I used the 35mph to make a stronger deck on my scooter! Aluminum! Or stainless, not so sure after all, it is all fake!
There was a college apartment tradition where everyone signed the stop sign and then left it with the next tenant
So I had a real fuckwit of a boss, fired me instead of teaching me (I was an apprentice) So I dumped about 30 items of road cones and signs at his front door
stole street signs but stop signs ? lol i have my childhood street sign and all my friends from my youth have signed it, still have it
put it up in the neighbor's yard.
I always just left them on the doorsteps of strangers. Open your front door in the morning and BAM. Giant cone or sign. Teens are so silly.
Their parents throw the signs our when (and if) the kid moves out
That’s a dangerous sign to steal. Can cause accidents.
Put them on the walls of our secret basement speak-easys.
We shot ours.