DROP IT YA THIEVIN' VARMINTS!!!!

[Cia]

Kno Place can usually keep it's sign but the City has given up on Sum Place.

[Kittish]

AND how many times have state and Federal highway depts. replaced mile marker 420 across the US??????

There's not that many places where the mile markers get up that far. One place, think it was in Colorado replace 420 with 419.99.

[Racket_Man]

Oh and my city had a street called

Blow St. named after Susan Blow a well known education advocate in the mid 19th century

[Jay 2K Winger]

I'm sure Intercourse, PA and Climax, PA do as well.

Richard Hammond: "You don't think there was a town called Foreplay back there we should have stopped in first?"

[KuariKaydrith]

Newfoundland is full of interesting place names, and signs do go missing in these places quite a lot. Dildo NL is a fine example. Sure, they've tried to sell signs with their town name on them, but people still keep swiping the official signs anyway!

[drunkenwildmage]

When I was in elementary school, the school was located on 'Gay' street. Somewhat amusing for a bunch of 4th graders in in the mid 80s.

[BPFH]

And, of course, there's always a certain town in Austria... I'm told they used to lose a lot of signs to British and American tourists. Though apparently they've made the signs a bit harder to steal these days...

[Jay 2K Winger]

When I was in elementary school, the school was located on 'Gay' street. Somewhat amusing for a bunch of 4th graders in in the mid 80s.

I guarantee you it's probably still very amusing to 4th graders.

[Deevil]

Oh and my city had a street called

Blow St. named after Susan Blow a well known education advocate in the mid 19th century

My hometown has a Cuming St, and believe it or not both street signs were on the pole at the 69th St intersection when the google maps car was in the area. Google maps link

[Blue Ginger]

A member of my BIL extended family used to live in Ford Court. The sign got stolen so often that they put it up so high that it was just under the street light. As in just an inch higher and it would be in shadow when the street lights were on.

Our road authority sells the street name signs when they have been damaged. Occasionally they also sell when they update them too.

We had the AC/DC Lane sign stolen so often in the first few weeks of it being named that council replaced it with a painted on street sign. It's a bit hard to steal the bricks. Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields and Abbey Road also have the same issues and they are all painted on instead now.

[protege]

I guarantee you it's probably still very amusing to 4th graders.

Probably not as amusing as Gaylord Avenue over in Dormont....

[Kagato]

There's 2 places in New Zealand that occasionally get signs stolen:

Big Manly Beach
and
Little Manly Beach

>_>

[Kit-Ginevra]

Whereas the sign for taumatawhakatangihanga... needs a whole gang of you to parade it through town once youve pilfered it....

[Kagato]

Whereas the sign for taumatawhakatangihanga... needs a whole gang of you to parade it through town once youve pilfered it....

Yup, the longer name being Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. 2nd longest place name in the world. (dunno why it keeps adding *'s automatically)

Longest place name in the world is Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayuttha yamahadilokphopnopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniw esmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavi sanukamprasit (Located in Bangkok)

[dalesys]

I have enough of a challenge turning at the Third Dead Cat!