Sign Stealing Thieves

hudysgirl

I would love to hear the stories of the girls that said they have stolen a traffic sign. When DH was in high school (before we met), he and his friends tried to steal the road sign for our school because of the name. Every time I hear the story I crack up...it wa s crazy!

So what was your experience? What was your reasoning? How old were you?

Edit: I realized after posting this the title may come off the wrong way. It's the "nicknames" the principal gave DH's friends that got caught in the attempt. They didn't get into any trouble, but they were ragged on for it for a while.

kimmyalc

In high school some of my friends and I tried to steal the Kim Lane sign for obvious reasons.  It was a poor attempt at best.  Back then the signs in the township were just metal signs sitting in a groove on top of a metal pole.  We thought we could just knock it down by hitting it from underneath.  All we did was dent the sign and after a few cars passed we go so paranoid that we left.

kdonedizzle

I used to ride around with my brother stealing street signs.  it got so popular that our friends starting placing orders and we would have to pull out maps to find street signs with their names on them.  Eventually C's room was covered in them.  When he moved out my Mom was so worried that someone would figure out we had them and we would get in trouble. 

Ahhh the good ol days.

ariajean

I never stole a sign, but it happened a lot in my town.  The town that I grew up in was still pretty rural back then (now it's just suburbia).  Lots of roads built from former cow paths that wind around hills and such.  There were homemade signs everywhere, telling people to slow down, advertising dirt for sale or announcing the names of farms or nurseries. 

The one that was stolen the most was on one of those windy roads and read: 

SLOW
CHILDREN
 
at PLAY

Over the years it kept getting replaced and upgraded - more art, stronger sign.  I think now it's store-bought.  No one ever read it to mean they should slow down...we all just giggled at the thought of "slow children" playing in the road.

Sierra&Lee

Like Aria I never stole signs either. But I do have a pretty good story of teenage vadals. In our town across from the Wal-Mart lived the man that owned the Wal-Mart, he also raised cows and had a huge concrete statue of a bull, very anatomically correct, and every week his balls would be a different color, then back white like the rest of the statue. It was kind of fun to see what color they were going to be week to week.

Mrs.KaityJane

There is a road in my town called Tuckahoe Road.  Everyone would steal it change the T to an F and hang it in their room.

Oo KrisTy oO

When I was 15, I dated a guy with the last name Troup and the road he lived on was Troup road (because it's the middle of nowhere - Amish, cows, farmland, what else do they have to name roads after?!) The guys couldn't get it off the pole, so they hooked a chain to it, put the other end around the truck hitch, and ripped the whole thing outta the ground lol! I think he had 3 total, they kept replacing it, but that was the only time I was an accomplice :P