Silly stop sign in Berkeley

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Stop Collaborate And Listen in Evanston, IL
Anonymous

Wow. Haven’t seen one of those since the early nineties.
sing it, baby

Berkeley, where carjackers say “please” and “thank you”.
bbonyx

Pretty common hack:
Stop – Hammertime
pendraphen

That’s almost as funny as “Shattuck.”
Anonymous

these were made by the folks at oaklandish. i recommend you look into their activities
Anonymous

In our neighborhood, the hack is “Stop Shark Finning”.
seandavid010

There’s one by my house that says:

STOP
Voldemort!

I chuckled the first time I saw it.
davidasposted

This term one of the students at my local university hacked a stop sign with a sharpie as follows:

Don’t
STOP
Believin’

- – -

I LOLed.
- IronEdithKidd
  
  There was one like that at Sunset and Brooks in Ann Arbor last year. The year before, a bunch of “slow children playing” signs had sissors added to the stick-kid’s hand.
Zandr

My personal favorite:

STOP
defacing signs

Also in Bzerkeley, IIRC.
airshowfan

STOP
in the name of love…

———-

DON’T
STOP
thinking about tomorrow…

———-

This is fun. I wonder how many others I can think of.

Not sure whether have the guts to actually make the stickers and put them up, though :[
Anonymous

meh.

at least this has a nice theme of oxymoronity going for it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukobe/4437128110/
Underpants Gnome

STOP
Collaborate & Listen
Xenu

I guess 1990 is retro now.
- StRevAlex
  
  Been that way for a while.
ikegently

I have always been fond of:

STOP
collaborate and listen
Anonymous

There’s one on the way to my daughter’s school that says

Can’t
STOP
Bob

We don’t know who Bob is.
Anonymous

STOP

Drop

Roll!
Anonymous

Not to be “that guy”, but these started showing up in Portland several years ago, also “…collaborate and listen”. usually by spray paint/stencil as opposed to stickers.
Felton

STOP

doggin’ me around.
my_belly

There used to be one (and may still be) that said:

STOP

DRIVING

MUMIA’S EXECUTION
MrsBug

This never gets old to me. :)
tyger11

Old joke is old.
Anonymous

In Oakland, it’s “Stop Snitching”.
absimiliard

Maybe so tyger11, maybe so.

But still . . .

Awesome sign mod is awesome.

-abs just wishes to note that the first rule of Tautology Club is still the first rule of Tautology Club
- Anonymous
  
  How can I be president of the Tautology club then?
Anonymous

Someone did the same thing to a stop sign at the corner of Fairview Loop Road and Old Matanuska Road in Wasilla, Alaska many many many many years ago and it’s still there, faded from age and sun.
Anonymous

Well, for a short time, there was a “At least slow down. formerly stop” sign in the town I grew up in, but after it was stolen twice, the town council figured humor didn’t belong in traffic control.
Anonymous

It’s not just that this is old, it’s not even a hack; you can buy these stickers from lots of places. Here’s a reasonable collection:

http://stellaland.typepad.com/stellaland/2006/06/counter_hippie_.html

Glarkware doesn’t sell them any more, but there’s still plenty of this sort of thing on cafepress.
IWood

my fave:

Stop

STOP

I mean it
ranomatic

First sign I ever saw like that was “STOP Nixon.” I think it was 1971.
Anonymous

#37–At a guess, it’s a church of the subgenius thing.
hectorinwa

I like the ones at crosswalks that say “stop for me – it’s the Claw!”
erissian

I came here to link to the Project Hammertime website. They made stickers for exactly this – but I can’t seem to find any evidence of them ever existing. This cover-up is obviously the work of the Illuminati.
Anonymous

Yo dawg,
I put a STOP
in yo STOP
so you can STOP
while you STOP
Anonymous

I’ve seen one that says, “STOP eating animals”
Anonymous

I just saw this last week on my first day ever in SanFran. Corner of Shattuck and Delaware.
Anonymous

I like this sign, also from the San Fran area…taken from the train going from San Francisco to San Jose.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49730391@N02/4561827151/
Anonymous

Related, there’s Fuck This Website, offering stickers reading “FUCK” and a large gallery of hilariously altered signs.
Halloween Jack

I’ve seen several people on LJ use an icon that’s a red octagon with a white silhouette of MC Hammer dancing in it.
Anonymous

Better: http://perljam.net/home/portland/canada-stop-being-cute/?image=img_9882.jpg
Kevin Carson

Actually, I think a stop sign like this was responsible for Laura Bush’s vehicular homicide.