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Where drivers in Oak Lawn once ignored octagonal red signs demanding they halt, they will now encounter little addendums to make them take notice and, well, stop. At least, that’s what mayor Dave Heilmann is hoping since he went balls-out with ironic nerdery by implementing a new plan to install signs with wacky messages underneath official stop signs.
Cute one-liners and pop culture references such as "Stop ... and smell the roses” and “Stop … in the naaaaaame of love” have been tacked onto the traffic signs at 50 intersections in the Chicago suburb. Heilmann believes the signs will divert drivers from real distractions, such as cell phones, and get them to actually pay attention to the road. Our favorites are “Billion dollar fine” and “Stop … means stop.” If you’ve got any suggestions, Heilmann is apparently all ears.
AP photo, via the Village of Oak Lawn.
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Based on my experience with stop signs and red lights and the drivers who "use" them, I think the most accurate slogan would be: "Stop, The New Go".
Hammer Time
Collaborate and Listen
Right There, I Gotta Know Right Now
I think the possibilities here are endless.
I wonder how much the fine taxpayers of Oak Lawn paid for this? Hopefully nothing...
I love kooky mayors.
I am all for creative government but that would annoy me.
Hammer Time
Collaborate and Listen
Right There, I Gotta Know Right Now
I think the possibilities here are endless.
Drop and Roll
Touching Me!
STOP
Raping my wife!
This idea is brilliant. Why shouldn't taxpayers pay for it? It will make the streets safer, I think, by making people pay attention to stop signs. I wish this would happen in Chicago. As it stands, the only kooky addenda to stop signs in Chicago come via taggers.
The first thing I thought of was M.C. Hammer too. Now where did put my my Z. Cavaricci's...
Stop!
Who do you think you are? A bicycle?
STOP
THE WAR
Hizzoner Jr. must be salivating at the possibility of doing the same in Chicago but selling the rights to the likes of JCDecaux.
Stop...Paying Full Price for Car Insurance!
Stop:
Short Short Like Frank Kostanza
Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before
Thinking About Satan
Do You Know Where Your Daughter Is?
Navin wins for best Chicagoist gag.
How exactly are these 'ironic'? Shouldn't you have at least a basic commanding of English by this point?
Wow, this signs will not be, I repeat, NOT BE huge time targets for teenagers around the Chicagoland area to steal like mad. I give this idea six months with the signs in the brightest areas going last.