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If this is distracting, so are ads: Ban them too!
Fuck Billboards and 50 ft tall signs.
They completely ruin natural scenery.
But don't you want to know that every child is a gift from God and abortion is MURDER?
Are those a thing outside the south? Because as soon as you pass through mid Virginia and pass the giant confederate flag, BOOM. Jesus Jesus jesus
Virginia doesn't allow billboards, thank goodness.
They're a thing here in Indiana, but that almost doesn't count as outside the south.
They are in much of the west as well
"It's the road that's distracting you from our gauche advertisement eyesores, not the other way around!"
-Corporations
I’ve enjoyed these kinds of signs here in NJ. They’re no more distracting than billboards and actually get safety messages across better through humor. I think this is a bad idea.
If humorous signs are too big of a distraction, billboards should also be banned.
There's an electronic billboard in my town that suddenly becomes visible as you go around a curve in a highway with a complicated exit at the end. Accidents happen there all the time and I think the momentary distraction of the billboard changing at that critical point is part of the reason why.
Stop right there criminal scum! 
the problem in the lower pic is the cars, not the signs.
well, also the signs, but i prefer them to the cars.
“Why are you trying to have the federal government come in and tell us what we can do in our own state? Prime example that the federal government is not focusing on what they need to be.”
For those down voting, this is straight from the article.
Isn't the point to keep drivers awake by entertaining them? I've always been told the challenge of long road driving is the monotonousity, and aside from that it's easier since everyone is travelling in the same direction at the same speed
Monotony
No, the point is to get people to pay attention to the sign.
A little humor helps.
It’s like the homeless guy with the sign that says “Why lie? I want beer.”
I've only given money to pan handlers twice.
The first time the guy came up and said, "Hey, man, got any spare change? Nigga needs to get drunk."
The second time was a group of guys searching for change in their car, and one asked if I had a quarter or something because they were trying to scrape together enough for a dime bag.
This was in Baton Rouge where every gas station had a resident drug addict with some crazy bullshit story about why they needed money, so I appreciated the honesty.
*sigh can't have any fun in the DOT I guess
Doesn't the Federal Highway Administration have anything better to do?
Good thing the locks on them are shitty and that they don't usually ever change the default password from 'DOTS.'
If the default password doesn't work, 'DIPY' as a password supposedly resets the password to the default 'DOTS.'
Citizens, together we can keep jokey signs on the roads.
Also, for a joke:
Ain't no Federal Highway Administration in the Constitution!
States Rights!!!!
States rights, federal money… that’s how they got the drinking age increased and the speed limits passed: “do it or we’ll yank your federal road money you get”
Ah so the holograms against the skyline of Night City of ad feed from the game 'Don't Build the Oppresionator' is being made, just on que.
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