Unauthorised changes to signs

[pmailkeey]

Suggested from here: http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/vie ... 5&start=80

here's one to kick off with

[SC2]

There was the legendary Weston Underwood- Vest 'n' underpants near here.

http://www.nationofstorytellers.com/me/ ... f4ua7lqbhq

[Fenlander]

Penny Hill, off the A17 near Holbeach is often defaced to Benny Hill.

[Steve in Cumbria]

Up until a few years ago, the sign to Hutton Roof off the A65 near Kirkby Lonsdale said Button Moon...

[WHBM]

Many years ago carriageway painted SLOW, SLOW, and then an interval before the final SLOW, had someone interpose QUICK QUICK at the relevant place, seemingly done in white gloss paint. Right here on the A540 in the Wirral. http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=53.352597, ... 26,,0,6.61

Being on DWLs, removal some weeks later was a nuisance for the road crew, of course.

Just along from there, an early Margaret Calvert 'old people crossing' pictogram was supplemented for years with an "Old Codgers" additional text, while Margaret's famous school pictogram, without text, was doubtless encouraged by the mumber of pre-Worboys signs with the "School" legend, conveniently at the bottom, which has "Ban" written just above.

[wrinkly]

Here's an good one that I've posted before.

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Near where I live there's a bunch of streets called Well House Road, Well House Drive etc and on one sign WELL has been changed to WEEE.

It's a common phenomenon in Leeds to have a group of streets with identical names except that one of them is Street, one is Road, one is Avenue etc.

[dragonv480]

This stop sign currently has "hammer time" added underneath on a sticker.

Also seen "eating animals" somewhere else but can't remember where.

[RichardA626]

I remember a sign for Hyde Hospital had the letters H, O, A & L painted out.

In the same way someone blanked out the letters M, G & L from a sign for a Swimming Pool. It was somewhere in Norfolk, can't remember exactly where.

[c2R]

This is my favourite:

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Also...

This had a molested "P" for a bit:

http://goo.gl/maps/Lwdi (Streetview just shows what happened next...)

Similar happens here regularly: http://goo.gl/maps/Ovn1

[Sabrista]

The signs in the middle of Gants Hill Roundabout once had the Gs painted or stickered out all the way round. I seem to remember it was Ants Hill for quite some time...

Serena

[Big L]

These signs and these signs get vandalised on a regular basis.

[AJK1982]

You can guess from the smudge what happened here...

[c2R]

This one was replaced shortly before the google car came round, if I recall correctly..

http://goo.gl/maps/kTsN

[RichardA626]

Canal Street in Manchester often get's it's C painted out.

I've seen a few other street names that would be funny if someone defaced them in a certain way.

[Mattsignmaker]

Here on the roundabout over j24 of the m25 cockfosters is often changed in this way

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=potter ... 53.62,,1,0

[B1018 A120 M11]

My favourite one in this regard was here, not far from my house, where (I assume) local opponents to genetic modification had their way for a while a few years ago, repeatedly covering over or painting out the first 'e' in the first word visible here... until eventually that whole part of the sign had to be patched over! In fact I think you can make out the patching on that Google Street View...

...and no, it *wasn't* me, by the way! But I had to admire the stoic determination of whoever it was to be terribly, terribly silly, over and over again... and I bet there were many stuffed shirts on said campus that were really quite annoyed at having their 'incredibly important' work repeatedly mocked in this way...

MattB

[EngineerAl]

The old classic in central Manchester, Canal Street SNP, regularly changed to "anal treet"....yes the heart of the gay village.

There was a sharp bend sign on the road where I grew up, with the old dangerous bend subplate, that was regularly edited to dangerous bender.


Seems to be a theme here..............

[SC2]

Canal Bridge= Anal Ride happened somewhere near here. Since forgotten where.

Oh and Swimming Pool= Swim in Poo.

[Helvellyn]

There was the legendary Weston Underwood- Vest 'n' underpants near here.

http://www.nationofstorytellers.com/me/ ... f4ua7lqbhq

Hah, that brings back some memories, I lived there at the time!

[SC2]

Really . Still a famous story round here, was featured on radio Derby a couple of years back.