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Funny Stop Signs Removed in Oak Lawn, IL

STOPandGO — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:40:14 +0000

The town of Oak Lawn, IL, has put a stop to its unique practice of posting humorous spoof stop signs below their actual stop signs. The messages on the spoof signs were intended to draw attention to the signs themselves, and included messages such as “Hammertime”, “Collaborate and listen”, and “In the naaaame of love” [sic].

The signs were removed because they failed to meet federal standards for traffic control devices.

Eight Ways to Stop Neighborhood Speeding

STOPandGO — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:47:23 +0000

Atlanta’s Dawson Times posted this article about eight ways they believe can help control neighborhood speeding. They range from effective methods involving coordination with law enforcement to hilariously ineffective methods including driving slow with a “neighborhood pace car” sticker on your car. We certainly don’t recommend that you play pace car.

Eight Ways to Stop Neighborhood Speeding

Traffic codes nix North Huntingdon’s 19 mph limit

STOPandGO — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:33:00 +0000

North Huntingdon police Sgt. Duane Kucera concedes he took a “little egg on the face” when he erected 19 mph signs on two township streets a year ago and inadvertently violated state and federal regulations requiring speed limits in 5 mph increments. Even though the 20 mph signs are back up on Mockingbird Lane in front of Norwin Intermediate School and on Biddle Avenue In Westmoreland City, Kucera thinks motorists got the message to slow down. He’s had no speeding complaints in more than a year.

Traffic codes nix North Huntingdon’s 19 mph limit

Man shoots traffic camera with rifle

STOPandGO — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:12:04 +0000

Knoxville police have lost red-light cameras to traffic accidents but never to gun play. “This is the first one that’s been shot,” Capt. Gordon Catlett said of the wounded camera at the intersection of Broadway Avenue and Interstate 640 — one of 15 camera-equipped intersections in the city. Clifford E. Clark, 47, was charged with felony vandalism and reckless endangerment for allegedly firing at least three rounds from a .30-06 hunting rifle at the camera, knocking it out of action.

Man shoots traffic camera with rifle

Cars spin out as waste truck spills poultry fat along Virginia highway

STOPandGO — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:48:39 +0000

A waste truck leaked poultry fat along 30 kilometres of Virginia roadway today, causing at least four crashes not to mention a stinky mess. State police say a valve was left open on truck hauling waste grease from the Perdue Farms rending plant in Accomac. The mistake wasn’t noticed until the truck reached a weigh station at the Maryland state line. At least four crashes and several spinouts were reported on northbound U.S. Route 13. One injured person was taken to hospital.

Cars spin out as waste truck spills poultry fat along Virginia highway

Naked Man Causes Accidents on Delaware Highway

STOPandGO — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:58:13 +0000

Ardonas Gilbert, 26, of Chester, Pennsylvania, has been charged by Delaware State Police with two counts of assault and a single count of being drunk on a highway. The charges stem from Gilbert’s naked jaunt along Interstate 95.

Naked Man Causes Accidents on Delaware Highway

Cow falls off cliff and crashes onto van on highway, motorists unhurt

STOPandGO — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:38:41 +0000

Charles and Linda Everson were driving back to their hotel when their minivan was struck by a falling object — a 600-pound (272-kilogram) cow.

Cow falls off cliff and crashes onto van on highway, motorists unhurt