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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.
Is this… a common problem? I can’t say I stole any city signage in my youth
If you weld 8 stop signs together you can make a StopCube.
BUT DON’T DO THAT THAT WOULD BE VERY BAD.
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.
Honestly, the amount of effort it would take to return the signs without raising suspicion seems almost as adventurous as the heist itself. Maybe lean toward a late-night ‘return operation’ wearing dark hoodies and traveling on foot, Mission Impossible style. Now all you need is theme music and a lookout. Remember, it’s not just about clearing your conscience, it’s about the stealthy thrill of undoing past mischief.
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.
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.
Who knew so many of us had a sign-stealing phase? I guess that’s an unexpected rite of passage in the annals of youthful rebellion. However, having a stockpile now just screams for a creative solution – why not channel that into a community service project? Organize a team to repurpose them into art or furniture for local youth centers (with the city’s blessing, obviously). Turn them from symbols of mischievous nights into cornerstones of betterment for the place you call home. That’s how you stop on a dime and change direction in the most constructive way possible!
What an asswipe. Recklessly endangering others for your amusement.
Make them disappear….tampering or removal of a stop sign could land you a felony.
They’re in my garage on the walls.
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
I used to just leave them in the garage when I moved out of a flat. Now that I am old, if I moved into a place with signs in it I would just go give them to the receptionist at the council.
You have all the signs of being a thief.
I have one hanging in my garden. Those things are HUGE.
I know a student club who made one into a clock.
You go to ask other losers who steel.
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.
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, 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.
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.
They give them to quirky little bars, to hang on the walls
Shove it up their asses?
Just go out at night, place them on all roads/streets that will give you the easiest route into work in the morning
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…
My brother in law has his nailed all over the walls of his garage. I don’t think he stole all of them, some might be from buddies or flea market finds. He’s 60 and likes tinkering on cars
My brother in law has his nailed all over the walls of his garage. I don’t think he stole all of them, some might be from buddies or flea market finds. He’s 60 and likes tinkering on cars
Well, in my hometown they sold 3 poles with traffick lights. It was during a national holiday where we have flea markets in the city centers with police all over. 😂 I guess that’s a way to get rid of them?
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
What kind of moron trash person does this?
NO OFFENSE THOUGH
>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.
Just left them behind the shed.
If you stole stop signs, then your edit is incorrect. People were absolutely endangered.
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.
We hung them on the fences outside have literally like 30 different signs now the back yard seems like a hangout spot. Do not return them you will pay a hefty fine or even go to jail
When I was a teenager, my best friend and his brother stole a stop sign near their house. The old thing was full of bullet holes and in poor condition from redneck target practice. When the sign was replaced with a shiny big, new one, they went back and swapped out the old sign for the new one.
This is the part where I was confused by my friend’s story, I had assumed they stole the original sign to get the big, shiny replacement in their area. He was telling me the tale as he was giving me the stop sign. Apparently their dad found it and told them to get rid of the evidence of their crimes. My dad made me put it in the attic, face down. Now, I wonder if the new home owners ever found it.
Make some skid plates to protect the under carriage for off-road vehicles
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.
Just store them away. You might like them for wall art in the future.
Surrender them to the authority and go to prison, as you should.
Throw then in the skate park ad midnight for the next generation as custom dictates
I hang mine in my garage.
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.
Hang them up In a garage or man cave
My friend has a stop sign and a mile marker and they’re just hanging in his wall 🤷🏻♂️
Wall art
People like you are the reason why the average person eats eight spiders a year. Removing outliers, it’s really closer to 0.001
In my husband’s father’s 20s, he and his brother (so, my uncle-in-law?) were driving down the road in a city they didn’t live in and saw a street sign that had their last name on it. As in Lastname St. So they hopped out of the car and stole it and drove away. You know, young adult shit. Fast forward like 30-odd years, and my husband and I are helping them clear out their storage rental unit for them to move states. And they give us that sign (amongst other, mundane things), and now we have it proudly displayed in our garage, easily seen from the road when the garage door is open. It gets a lot of impressed chuckles from ppl who see it and ask, especially from those who know my father-in-law, cuz nowadays he doesn’t really seem like the type lol 😂
Decorate their garage interiors.
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.