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Adam

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Silly signs
« on: 18 August, 2008, 09:35:49 pm »
Racing back home yesterday, I came across a very odd sign, near Tring.  It's on a perfectly ordinary road -



but when you get closer, you can see the police have their very own reserved lay-by!



I can't see why.  There's no donut concession nearby, no hordes of hoodie clad hooligans hanging around.  Very strange.

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1 on: 18 August, 2008, 09:51:20 pm »
It's an exclusive police dogging spot.
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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #2 on: 19 August, 2008, 05:24:22 am »
Doesn't look very well used ;D

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #3 on: 19 August, 2008, 08:50:04 am »
There's 2 or 3 of these around Stratford-upon-Avon ... they're for the Camera Gestapo to park up the white van with the window in the back door and catch the errant motorists (there's probably some white paint marks on the road within line of sight for the camera settings)

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #4 on: 21 August, 2008, 08:51:04 am »

Re: Silly signs
« Reply #5 on: 21 August, 2008, 09:07:00 pm »
Saw this one at work.  Crap picture, but you get the idea.



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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #6 on: 22 August, 2008, 10:46:45 am »
Slightly immature, but still funny.  This is the emergency handle on a train.

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #7 on: 22 August, 2008, 11:32:50 am »
There's 2 or 3 of these around Stratford-upon-Avon ... they're for the Camera Gestapo to park up the white van with the window in the back door and catch the errant motorists (there's probably some white paint marks on the road within line of sight for the camera settings)

Rob

If there are no speed camera markings nearby, it could be a standby point for incidents at a nearby location?

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #8 on: 22 August, 2008, 01:53:09 pm »
Slightly immature, but still funny.  This is the emergency handle on a train.


You found it! Nice one.

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #9 on: 24 August, 2008, 10:22:39 pm »
Saw this one at work.  Crap picture, but you get the idea.




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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #10 on: 24 August, 2008, 10:24:41 pm »
That depends on your... bent. :sick:

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #11 on: 27 August, 2008, 07:54:02 pm »
You don't want to get a visit from the fairy down this road!


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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #12 on: 27 August, 2008, 07:58:37 pm »


My favourite on the Gainsborough Express (a line from Marks Tey to Sudbury). Photographed about 2 years ago.
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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #13 on: 27 August, 2008, 08:21:06 pm »


Not funny?
OK how about this then?


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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #14 on: 28 August, 2008, 11:52:11 am »
Clicky.  Some of these are clearly the product of an insane genius.
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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #15 on: 28 August, 2008, 11:59:43 am »


I'm sure that this has, in fact, happened to me  ;D
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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #16 on: 28 August, 2008, 12:23:44 pm »
Was this in the same room where you found your knickers lying on the floor later in the day?

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #17 on: 28 August, 2008, 01:39:54 pm »
Ah yes.  The filing room incident.  We don't talk about that...
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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #18 on: 28 August, 2008, 01:42:47 pm »
Ah yes.  The filing room incident.  We don't talk about that...

The filing room incident!  Didn't that incident involve the loss of a pair of knickers?

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #19 on: 28 August, 2008, 01:48:47 pm »
::-)
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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #20 on: 03 September, 2008, 08:16:06 am »


Gagh!
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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #21 on: 03 September, 2008, 08:42:58 am »

Re: Silly signs
« Reply #22 on: 03 September, 2008, 08:45:57 am »
not silly, more annoyingly careless:





and one *great* sign in New York:



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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #23 on: 26 September, 2010, 08:36:40 pm »
Well, Hastings and St Leonards, you've only yourselves to blame.


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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #24 on: 26 September, 2010, 08:43:11 pm »





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