Bridge Warning Posted: 2 years ago by andrewinmelbourne
A road sign for the idiots of the world
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A sign that essentially says "don't hit your head on this sign." Posted: 2 years ago by ElHoopso
In other words, there would be no need for the warning, if the self-referential warning sign didn't exist.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 117 [+].
"The Bridge": Suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge Posted: 2 years ago by hypnotode
Filmmaker Eric Steel has released a documentary called "The Bridge" that shows some of the jumps, all filmed in 2004. The film is, understandably, controversial.
"The strange part about that is, almost everyone who made [negative] comments made them before they'd seen a single frame of footage," Steel said. "I think the film is incredibly sensitive. And I think people were quick to judge, because it's something they're very afraid of."
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Hacked Sign Distracts Drivers Posted: 1 year ago by Kerry
A Massachusetts road sign was hacked to display a naughty message (part of male anatomy for lunch). I smell a bored teenager on summer break.
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Indonesia to build suspension bridge in earthquake hot spot Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Indonesia plans to build the world's longest suspension bridge across the earthquake-prone Sunda Strait, passing within 50 kilometres of the active Krakatoa volcano. The bridge, traversing 30 kilometres, will link Indonesia's main islands of Java and Sumatra at an estimated cost of $12 billion.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 118 [+].
Bus driver obeys GPS, ignores warning sign Posted: 8 months ago by leehblanc
Reportedly, the driver of a charter bus carrying a high school girls' softball team decided to casually follow the soothing turn-by-turn directions that were being emitted from the nearby GPS unit rather than actually noticing the enormous clearance sign on the overpass ahead
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E-mail error ends up on road sign Posted: 1 month ago by jhordie
When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.
Comments: 6 Score: [-] 657 [+].
Water Bridge Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Here’s a Google satellite image from near Magdeburg, Germany. It shows a water bridge crossing the Elbe River. Actually, it is a canal crossing the river on a bridge. Here's a ground-level photo.
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Council erects sign that tells drivers: Don't trust your satnav Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
In the village of St Hilary, a succession of trusting lorry drivers have followed their satnav down a narrow, bendy lane - only to find they are stuck. But there's help on the way - and not in the form of a tow truck. Instead, the authorities have put up a sign warning drivers not to believe everything their satellite navigation tells them.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 112 [+].
Dad makes son wear sign for using drugs Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A father says he wasn't trying to shame his 14-year-old son when he made the boy wear a large sandwich-board sign saying, "I abused and sold drugs."
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 78 [+].
Sign Sign everywhere a sign Posted: 9 months ago by 2manyusernames
And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said you look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do
So I took off my hat I said imagine that, huh, me working for you
Comments: 7 Score: [-] 205 [+].
Hump road sign slightly misleading Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
A road sign depicting two people in a passionate embrace above the word "hump" has angered VicRoads.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 349 [+].
Right to Life group claims its DNC sign is Guinness record Posted: 3 months ago by dork
American Right to Life Action, an anti-abortion group, claims to have displayed the largest ever protest sign in history, towering over the Democratic National Convention in Denver at 530 feet tall and 666 feet wide.
Comments: 7 Score: [-] 320 [+].
Activists scale the Golden Gate Bridge Posted: 8 months ago by unzercharlie
Three protesters climbed suspension cables of the Golden Gate Bridge and unfurled two large banners that said "One World One Dream. Free Tibet."
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 364 [+].
Boy forced to hold 'I was rude' sign Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
Marcia Harvey made her son stand across the road from his school in the US city of Jacksonville, in Florida, with a sign that said “I was rude to my teacher, I can’t come to school, I’m sorry”.
Video included.
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Deaf dalmation given a new lease of life after learning sign language Posted: 17 hours ago by AutumnLotus
A deaf dalmatian which was trapped in a world of its own has been given a new lease of life after learning sign language.
The spotted dog called Zoe was born profoundly deaf and had failed to bond with its owner who was forced to give her up. But staff at an animal shelter began to teach the 18-month-old pooch basic sign language through a series of hand commands.
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After 20 years, county takes down misspelled "maintance" sign Posted: 1 year ago by hisidea
The head of the sign shop said he didn't know how the sign had come to be misspelled in the first place, whether it was accidental or intentionally misspelled to fit the long word on the sign.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 107 [+].