Grubby sheets hung on road signs declaring “Happy Birthday”
Grubby sheets hung on road signs declaring “Happy Birthday”
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anonymous-user

Original Poster:

83 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Just why?
Around our neck of the woods there was an absolute plague a couple of years ago of grotty old bed sheets spray-painted with legends like “Happy 21st Tyler” and “Luv U Mick” and other such bland crap, then hung on/over local road signs and left to rot.
Now it’s started again.
Way beyond a “bit” council.
What mentality says that a combination of littering, graffiti and obscuring road signs is a fitting alternative to a card through the post?

rufusgti

2,573 posts

221 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Do you live in Wales by any chance?

I had never seen it before moving here and every time I see it I just try and imagine how I'd feel if someone had left the message for me. I can't help think I'd be utterly mortified and totally ashamed to have friends or family that see the need to shout their business to the world.

PositronicRay

29,004 posts

212 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Crossflow Kid said:
Just why?
Around our neck of the woods there was an absolute plague a couple of years ago of grotty old bed sheets spray-painted with legends like “Happy 21st Tyler” and “Luv U Mick” and other such bland crap, then hung on/over local road signs and left to rot.
Now it’s started again.
Way beyond a “bit” council.
What mentality says that a combination of littering, graffiti and obscuring road signs is a fitting alternative to a card through the post?
Have you seen the cost of Greetings cards these days? Let alone a stamp.

rowley birkin

513 posts

129 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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duvet know it is illegal to obscure a traffic sign with a sheet ?

Agila b 6yr 6k

117 posts

124 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Best bed sheet on a bridge I saw was "Take me back Karen, I'm sorry xxx".

I've seen loads sprayed with "FLAT EARTH" with a few unsuccessful attempts like ERATH and ERTAH crossed out etc.

Quite a few relating to E.U referendum and last General Election.

br d

9,072 posts

255 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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"Happy 33rd Birthday Granma"

catfood12

1,567 posts

171 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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br d said:
"Happy 33rd Birthday Granma"
biggrin
Mega.

I-A

428 posts

186 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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rufusgti said:
Do you live in Wales by any chance?

I had never seen it before moving here and every time I see it I just try and imagine how I'd feel if someone had left the message for me. I can't help think I'd be utterly mortified and totally ashamed to have friends or family that see the need to shout their business to the world.
Or Basingstoke?

Jasandjules

72,601 posts

258 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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br d said:
"Happy 33rd Birthday Granma"
You've been to Basildon then.......

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

83 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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PositronicRay said:
Have you seen the cost of Greetings cards these days? Let alone a stamp.
Yes, but it’s still less than a set of nylon sheets from Argos and a Halfords rattle can.

PSB1

4,251 posts

133 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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br d said:
"Happy 33rd Birthday Granma"
Win.

br d

9,072 posts

255 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Jasandjules said:
br d said:
"Happy 33rd Birthday Granma"
You've been to Basildon then.......
About 3 hours ago JandJ!

PSB1

4,251 posts

133 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Very similar to petrol station flowers left at the site of promising footballer crashes.

Jasandjules

72,601 posts

258 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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br d said:
About 3 hours ago JandJ!
Well terrible luck on your part then biggrin

But on the plus side, you get to leave right?

ambuletz

11,751 posts

210 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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i used to see this all the time as a kid. the A13 in east londn around beckton/custom house had many walk ways that went over the junctions. nearly every day there was something up there.

Lincsls1

4,076 posts

169 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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What fks me off is these people can find the effort to put them up, but can never be arsed to remove them!

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

83 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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PSB1 said:
Very similar to petrol station flowers left at the site of promising footballer crashes.
We had one of those for a little while until the street lighting was replaced and the lamp posts relocated.
Oh the uproar. Dissryspexfil innit?

Alucidnation

16,810 posts

199 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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One for the council thread IMO.

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

83 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Lincsls1 said:
What fks me off is these people can find the effort to put them up, but can never be arsed to remove them!
This.
There were a couple dangling off a local roundabout that were there so long they started turning green.

br d

9,072 posts

255 months

Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Jasandjules said:
br d said:
About 3 hours ago JandJ!
Well terrible luck on your part then biggrin

But on the plus side, you get to leave right?
Yeah, I'm not resident.
I do a bit of work over there sometimes and in my line of work I always get to see the worst a place has to offer, and Basildon does have some pretty rough spots.