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A stop sign location that's probably not necessary. Pretty amusing. [PIC]

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  • mrgreenjeans, on 10/10/2007, -1/+113I bet it's there because someone went straight through those fences. Come to think of it, those fences are there because someone went straight into the trees.
  • antiver, on 10/10/2007, -2/+57Direct Mirror: http://image.bayimg.com/cafmnaabf.jpg
  • Moriya, on 10/10/2007, -1/+34Reminds me of this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Hopscotch_to_oblivion.jpg
  • eousphoros, on 10/10/2007, -4/+34Or it could have been some punk photographer who turned the stop sign 45 degrees to make it a more amusing photo.
  • rotarychainsaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28That placement makes perfect sense. Stop signs are way more reflective than a fence, so at least someone going down that dead end at night has a chance of stopping before they crash through.
  • andrewcsayer, on 10/10/2007, -9/+35Pretty amusing = lame.
  • jayssite, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24So, they removed the road but forgot to remove the stop sign? Makes sense.
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Yeah I only digg posts that are HILARIOUS!! MUST SEE!!1
  • dewfish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I just drive with my headlights on.....allows me to see things whether they reflect or not.
  • sickXtwisted, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11If you look closely you can see what used to be a dirt road. It's shaped like one atleast, plus it's cleared like one. And by the look of the road it's a slight curve, it goes left but when it goes right it goes up as well. Also judging by the rust it's been there awhile, so the road is probably closed off now which is why the fence is there.

    http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/6620/stopsignrv0.jpg mirror.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Clearly that should have been a YIELD sign instead.
  • openthink, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9most towns are really careful (even obsessive) about # of stop signs they have, where they're located, adding new ones, etc. you could wait years in some towns before the local govt will agree to a new one. whatever the reason, this town is fine with this stop sign here. it may have once had a good purpose, but now...it's a pretty odd, incongruous, amusing image imho.
  • pudgyv, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8There's one just like it in my home town because dimwits kept driving right off the end of the road.
  • Seifey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I can't read fences in daylight, either. :(
  • DarkNemesis618, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Maybe you have to stop before you then run through the fence and into the trees
  • xfTwitch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Should be a 'dead end' sign though.
  • GawtMilk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Stop signs are reflective. They're easier to read at night then a fence...
  • Azimuth1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Or maybe, someone just rotated it 90 degress and it's actually supposed to be telling traffic from either the left or the right of the frame to stop.
  • millerbrad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4In northern Michigan, there are alot of signs on the 2-way roads that say "Do Not Pass when Opposing Traffic is Present".

    Great, thanks for that guidance.
  • ebolaworld, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4SOP sign
  • elcaminos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4How do you know the road doesn't continue on the left side of the picture? Maybe the stop sign is just that far to the right of the road?
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'm not blind. What do I win?
  • WallnutBoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3WILL DIGG AGAIN!
  • JimMayJr, on 08/06/2009, -0/+3so are reflective markers that you can put on or near a fence
  • CrimsonBlur, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Actually it looks like there used to be an unpaved road beyond that fence. The fence was probably put in after the sign, and they just didn't bother to remove the stop sign. If the intent was to make the end of the road visible, they would install reflectors on the fence or put a turn warning sign there, not a stop sign beyond the fence.

    In fact, the stop sign beyond the fence is actually quite a hazard, because if it's pitch black you could easily miss the fence, but see the sign, and assume the road continues, and how many people honestly bother to stop at every stop sign in the middle of the night with no traffic (I actually do, but many don't)?
  • tobias1482, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4again! possible logic! how dare you!
  • mrblue182, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2if you read the description, you would have seen "dry humor. (not for everybody)"
  • hiPpymIck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2..hair-pin bend..
  • Hous, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It could be for snowmobilers. Put up a fence in the summer to block vehicles from going through, but in winter it would be hard to see the fence. If it weren't for the stop sign you'd probably fly right through it.
  • Koldkompress, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You'd be surprised by how retarded some people truly are..
  • RedX117, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3As if the trees weren't enough incentive to stop...
  • tokenring3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Like an L turn with a stop sign in our town. (2) of them. Police wait at ours for the drunks etc to ignore them, like a speed trap. I'd have to say this one is more like the big pylons at the end of a railroad track with those black and yellow banner stripes aka "HONESTLY, LAST CHANCE TO STOP!" Cause this is the time to jump if you can't stop.
  • Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Probably there for when the dirt road behind it is not blocked. Or it was part of the contract up to that point and they're waiting for another county to build the other side.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2the sign shoul be saying "Left!Left!Left!"
  • izzie2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2My favorite sign here in AR is one that reads"Caution: Road unsafe when under water". Like duh.
    Second one here states"City water approved". Why did it need approving?I buy bottled water now.
  • theteller, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1really like this. first you've got a fence, then a stop sign, then trees. what's behind the trees? if dimwits or drunks get by all those obstacles, maybe a trench? something deep where all the cars and drivers are stuck...that'll teach them.
  • vastrightwing, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I just hope that ALL nav GPS systems know not to tell drivers to try to go that way ever. Since we all know people always do what they are told, no matter what!
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What a lame description! BTW, is "ordinary oddities" an oxymoron?
    I would have prefered if he had just said "title says it all..." in this case.
  • davewashere, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You see signs like this all over Long Island. They put them up for Billy Joel.
  • IEatHamburgers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's because Northern Michigan is so sparsely populated that drivers don't expect other cars to actually be in the other lane, so they don't pay any attention.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1People will still drive right through it.
  • j33buscr1p3s, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Most likely there is a dirt road, and the stop sign allows the county to claim it as a road and receive state money for road improvement. I see this all the time on dirt roads in some of the back country in Michigan which have absolutely no need for a stop sign, and my father, who used to work for a statewide association of counties claims its fairly common practice.
  • NSResponder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This picture doesn't show enough to know whether the sign makes sense or not. If the sign is at a T intersection, and the traffic coming towards the sign has to stop for traffic going straight past the sign, then it makes perfect sense.

    -jcr
  • dragonexe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Stop signs are reflective. They're easier to read at night then a fence"

    Isn't reflective tape cheaper?
  • mewhunter67, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1anyone notice the dirt road leading from it? there used to be or was going be a road that way; all in all, just wasted effort, not too odd.
  • jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2My god. Is that how bad it has gotten? Pictures of stop signs on dead end streets make front page... wtf??
  • dragonexe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Isn't reflective tape cheaper?

    Also, it just looks like an old dirt road behind the fence that got closed down.... or is that the joke?
  • NSResponder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I know of one location in the Santa Cruz mountains where the stop sign is positioned right in front of you as you come off the highway ramp to a T intersection. The rule about stopping where the sign is applies if there's no painted line on the road to show where to stop.

    -jcr
  • umdmatto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1um well the sign at the beginning of the street that says "Dead End" should be sufficient, so yes the Stop sign does not make sense
  • Ladymongoose, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Good thing there is a back up plan in case they miss the stop sign (the tree)..
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