Inhabitants of Oak Lawn, Ill. apparently have a hard time understanding the meaning of the large red octagons posted on street corners through the city.
So in an effort to get people to actually stop, the city installed smaller signs below their larger, legal counterparts to get motorists attention while providing them a half-hearted chuckle. The extra signs correlated with the “Stop” written above, with slogans including “and smell the roses,” “right there pilgrim” and “means you’re not moving.”
While residents and the town’s mayor found them funny, the Illinois Department of Transportation was less than enthused and claims that the signs violate the Fed’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. That means that federal funding for projects in the city could be put on hold, so $1,700 worth of signs were pulled down. Booooooooooooo!