Shcool sign

A road crew painted the above near Southern Guilford High School in North Carolina. According to the LA Times, the issue has been resolved. This has happened elsewhere before.

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Are we sure this is a mistake? There’s a street artist that goes by “Shcool” (pronounced suh-cool). He’s from eastern europe and there’s a clip of him in the dvd extras on exit through the gift shop. Can you think of another artist that has garnered this kind of attention? If this was a tag, it’s kinda awesome.
Felton

I’m hoping they fixed it by putting an apostrophe where the “H” was (S’COOL).
IamInnocent

Shouldn’t it be written twice anyway since this is a two way road?
- Anonymous
  
  I don’t know if it’s different elsewhere, but I’m from NC (perhaps unfortunately), and we put ‘SCHOOL’ across the whole road at both ends of a school zone. When you’re driving the other way (on the left side of this picture), there’s usually a sign that says “End School Zone.”
gobobogo

Welcome to our s’cool. You’ll notice there’s no H in it. Please keep it that way.
Ugly Canuck

Shcool fee once, shaman poo: shcool me twise, say Monty.
HOTDAMN

AWESHOME
jungletek

R.I.P. literacy
Felton

When the mistake was discovered, the road crew had to paint it correctly 100 times on some remote stretch of road before they were allowed to go home.
jocozo3

“Souther?”
cinemajay

I say leave it. This is exactly the fate that awaits anyone who doesn’t apply themselves!
MySobriquet

Shcmucks.
Jack

Hey, the link was broken so I fixed it!

Joe Shcool says stay in Shcool so you’re not some weirdo in sunglasses who loiters all day like Joe Shcool.
Jack

@$!%$# dammit! This is the right link to my above post:
http://tinypic.com/r/vo26uq/4
UncaScrooge

Painted by a hip young road crew that really knows how to speak to the youth of today.
DukeThomson

This is the exact same thing that happened in an Archie comic! Archie and Jughead got hired to paint this outside of the school, but messed up in the same way as above. However, instead of being punished by Mr Weatherbee, they got rewarded because it made drivers slow down to notice the mistake!
bcsizemo

I so did an implied facepalm when I heard about this…it doesn’t help that I live in NC (about an hour from here) as well.
grimc

Sean Connery is big in NC.
Suds

Hurry home, get can of white spray paint….

SH!COOL OR

|S H| C O O L as
|I T| ———>
SidFudd

“The issue has been resolved” – the road crew proceeded through the intersection, and enrolled.
jtegnell

Yay! My hometown makes it into Boing Boing for incompetence!