The flags really make this sign

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For security reasons. Always.
- Donald Petersen
  
  Heh. Honesty would require me to alter that sign with a couple of red letters. ”For Insecurity Reasons.”
- http://profile.yahoo.com/65CSAR3QATRNKJW4NYNB2BESZE JohnQPublic
  
  If you don’t like freedom, America will kill you.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Shane-Simmons/100000053744641 Shane Simmons
  
  Well, they can’t just put a sign up that says, “No parking, for loading and unloading only, assholes will be towed”, now can they?
http://twitter.com/kpkpkp Kevin Pierce

The only blue on the sign is for the Canton (or Field) of the U.S. flag, so in addition to incurring additional cost of a two-color silk screening process, there is also the previously non-existent issue of registration (getting the two colors to line up relative to one-another). The decorative flags increase the cost of the sign, increase the likelihood of manufacturing error, and limit sale to the U.S. market.
- chgoliz
  
  And if they’re going to pay all that extra money to represent the canton accurately, they should at least get the stars aligned correctly on that blue.
- L_Mariachi
  
  I think limited-use signs like this are likely vinyl-cut rather than screen-printed. Still increases the cost for the same reasons though.
MrWednesday7

There are times when I wish I lived in America so I could boycott assholes like this.
- jeaguilar
  
  Boycott an airport? Shoot. I bet you could do that in your country too.
http://twitter.com/xraydelta1 John T.

In America we have an old saying: “Get the hell out!”
xzzy

Because no terrorist would ever think to hide a bomb in a truck that’s being unloaded!

It’s been scientifically proven that only parked cars have bombs in them.
crummett

No Parking. It’s the American Way!
lknope

Dammit! I wanted to do some inactive loading and unloading.
LinkMan

Someone should cover up “security reasons” with a sticker saying “science.” Much better.
- http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy
  
  If you think putting a sticker on a sign at an airport won’t get you tackled tazed trussed, or shot if you fail to respond to a command properly, eh you know it will, give that sticker to someone you don’t like at all.
  
  Whoever put that swoosh on there probably has a sweet security certificate to show for it
saint_al

All the sign lacks is a graven image of Jesus on the cross. That, and an anti-drug slogan for the children.
- singe_101
  
  And “See something? Say something!”
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=665300000 Brett Kling

There is no doubt in my mind that the use if flags was intentional from either a subliminal message of “absolute compliance” AND/OR it’s a federal regulation.
http://www.facebook.com/heather.cristofaro Heather Cristofaro

If you want to creep yourself out, try recording every time you see an American flag throughout your average day.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  This is a couple of miles from me. Five thousand of them. Five fucking thousand.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/65CSAR3QATRNKJW4NYNB2BESZE JohnQPublic
    
    That’s a lot of flags to come all the way from China
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      Rotarians. Why spend money on feeding the hungry when you can spend it on an acre of Chinese polyester to “honor the fallen”?
      - ocker3
        
        I like your idea. “In commemoration of the fallen heroes, we will be giving textbooks to poor children, next week we’ll be building a new soup kitchen and sleeping area for the homeless. It’s what they would have wanted us to do”
  - singe_101
    
    Flagged.
- Richard Kirk
  
  True. I can’t answer for the rest of the world , but it looks very odd to someone from the UK. I know of just one one house in the UK that flies a Union Flag from a flagpole. I don’t know them, it’s just a place we go past on the way to visit my mum, and it is so unusual that I remember it. It doesn’t automatically mean they are Protestant Loyalists or in the National Front, but I don’t fancy the cut of their jib.
http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

Is the term “CUZ 9/11″ in the OED yet?
fnc

Better dead than parked and waiting!
http://profile.yahoo.com/65CSAR3QATRNKJW4NYNB2BESZE JohnQPublic

I want the passive loading and unloading parking. Or at least the “lethargic and slothful loading and unloading”
Preston Sturges

“The white zone is for loading and unloading only.”
- Donald Petersen
  
  Listen, Betty: don’t start up with your “white zone” shit again.
  - Bucket
    
    This is because I got an abortion, isn’t it?
hinten

We even put on signs now the fact that terrorists have won.
FusionEnvy

no way to verify its’ legality, but… / “just do it”/ /”U.S.A”/ … must be official.
http://www.jimdraws.com Thorzdad

You see flags used all the time for this kind of thing. The implication being that, if you’re a real patriot, you’ll do as you’re told.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1158069879 Daniel Segard

Should you need to wait for someone here, make sure that you have some packages, bags, or whatever in your vehicle. While you wait, simply actively load and unload them from your vehicle.
fr4nk

You took a picture at an airport?
Have fun in the gulag.
prof_jellis

Personally, I think the flags _really_ tie the sign together.

(while the DHS abides)
http://microblog.ourcoffs.org.au/mjd mjd

“If you park here, the terrorists have won.”