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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:08:48 PM EST
[#1]
Construction paper, written in crayons, paper laminated and a cheap wooden pole with nails and staples.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:10:54 PM EST
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Are you putting up a nice sign? Stop. Just make a template and spray paint a piece of plywood when it gets stolen. Make it easy to remove so they don't screw up your post. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/236821/lettering-symbols-pavement-markings_jpg-2731015.JPG I was thinking get some of that stuff that looks like cardboard but is made out of plastic and use a permanent marker, but same diff. Just make it so cheap and shitty looking that nobody will want it. Nail it to a tree. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:11:34 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My assumption is they will just cut the pole at whatever level they can reach and take the sign off Whoever keeps taking the sign isn't some high school kid. They have tools with them. I'm guessing some late 20s tweaker whose sense of humor never graduated high school. In Minecraft it’s not out of the range of a teenager to accomplish this task. Elevation or perm structure with painted info is best option. All of the previous methods you mentioned would take less than 60 seconds to abscond with |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:12:33 PM EST
[#4]
Hunt over bait.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:12:35 PM EST
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Gay, MI. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Imagine living in Intercourse, PA Gay, MI. 
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:13:39 PM EST
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:21:10 PM EST
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Game cameras are a thing. Yeah I have one in a camo locking box and was going to mount it after the last sign went up. Too busy to get it done on the same day, didn't think the sign would be gone in less than a week. My own fault for not putting the camera up first. My wife ordered little signs that said "24/7 video surveillance" but I assume this will just result in the sign thieves taking an extra 5 minutes to locate and steal the game camera. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:23:24 PM EST
[#8]
Luckily, "69" will not be a thing for much longer, due to Americans turning into total fatasses.
"00" will be the new "69". |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:27:49 PM EST
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Luckily, "69" will not be a thing for much longer, due to Americans turning into total fatasses. "00" will be the new "69". 69 is cosmic brah. It will always be with us. Emperor Xi will make it so. 
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:30:11 PM EST
[#10]
I used to put up road signs for the state. A couple counties over from mine where some small communities, one was called Rowdy, the other was called Dwarf.
The sign looked like: Rowdy Dwarf It got stolen a couple times a year. After about 10 years someone finally changed it to: Dwarf Rowdy It was never stolen again. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:33:35 PM EST
[#11]
Some towns with fun names get the name on a huge Boulder after their signs get stolen numerous times
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:33:56 PM EST
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Get big boulder delivered to end of street. Paint 69th street on it. Some variation of this . |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:34:17 PM EST
[#13]
When we lived at Tenkiller, the county finally change our address from "xxxxx Tiger Road" to xxxxx S 141st St East, because every friggin' high school kid from every friggin' high school with a Tiger mascot (BA Tigers, Coweta Tigers, ad nauseum) was getting caught stealing our road sign down at the corner (dead end road)
I hate having addresses that look like phone numbers  
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:34:22 PM EST
[#14]
Coat the edges of the sign and pole with never sieze.
They will wish to hell they hadn’t touched it. Or spray paint 69 on a piece of plywood and slap it up. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:34:30 PM EST
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:36:38 PM EST
[#16]
2” schedule 80 steel pipe, 15’ tall, filled with concrete, buried 6’.
Bandsaw blades aren’t that cheap and concrete will murder them. Concrete will murder just about any blades. Itd be a challenge and a game to me at this point to try to defeat the vandal. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:41:14 PM EST
[#17]
Not worth the effort, but...
Put in a cemented base with a metal sleeve to bolt the post in. Weld the sign to the post. At least the bastards would need a saw, or have to take the post with them to get the sign. Probably illegal, but I do like the thought of filling the pipe with cement to destroy saw blades - put some rebar in it as well, just in case they are smart enough to try to score the post and crack the cement. --- Neighbor had a problem with his mail box. He happened to be a water well driller. Eventually his mailbox was on a 6" casing, probably planted 8' into the ground. He hung a 30 gallon kettle under it-filled with dirt and cactus. It's still there after 20+ years, but the post office moved his box so they would not destroy their cars trying to get next to it. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:42:02 PM EST
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Imagine living in Intercourse, PA Better than Blue Balls, PA 
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:43:56 PM EST
[#19]
Change it to
Nice! St |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:44:09 PM EST
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
2” schedule 80 steel pipe, 15’ tall, filled with concrete, buried 6’. Bandsaw blades aren’t that cheap and concrete will murder them. Concrete will murder just about any blades. Itd be a challenge and a game to me at this point to try to defeat the vandal. This plus there are several different types of anti-theft street sign nut and bolt sets available that will deter all but determined shitbags. When LED lightbars first came onto the market, they were routinely stolen around my area. I helped a buddy one on his Jeep with anti-theft bolts and his never was stolen...but it had some tool marks where someone tried. 
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:47:00 PM EST
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 68+1 street. Anything that equals 69 is going to get stolen |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:47:22 PM EST
[#22]
OP, flip the sign upside down and would be scoundrels will be confused and run off to play with their talleywackers.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:48:34 PM EST
[#23]
Change it to 68.5 street, like Colorado changed mile marker 420 to 419.9.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:49:09 PM EST
[#24]
Hook up a strong electrical charge to the sign.
Then put up a 5g trailcam. Post to Youtube. Profit. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:49:36 PM EST
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/City_limit_sign_of_Fucking%2C_Austria.jpg/170px-City_limit_sign_of_Fucking%2C_Austria.jpg I think they actually changed the name of the town recently (in Austria, so in the German language it wasn't really a problem) Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Imagine living in Intercourse, PA Gay, MI. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/City_limit_sign_of_Fucking%2C_Austria.jpg/170px-City_limit_sign_of_Fucking%2C_Austria.jpg I think they actually changed the name of the town recently (in Austria, so in the German language it wasn't really a problem) Don't forget Dildo, Newfoundland. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:49:38 PM EST
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 2” schedule 80 steel pipe, 15’ tall, filled with concrete, buried 6’. Bandsaw blades aren’t that cheap and concrete will murder them. Concrete will murder just about any blades. Itd be a challenge and a game to me at this point to try to defeat the vandal. I like this one The last steel post was one of the box channel ones with holes in it and that would have been impossible to fill |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:53:44 PM EST
[#27]
We looked at a house off of Weed Dr. Unsurprisingly the street sign was missing.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 1:59:03 PM EST
[#28]
we had one "electric ave" back in the day it was stolen eveytime they put a new on up
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:02:01 PM EST
[#29]
Do you have to have a sign?
If you do how about one with two arrows, one pointing to 68th St and another arrow pointing to70th St? |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:05:01 PM EST
[#30]
Amazon sells razor wire. Up your entanglement game.
Just put one of these nearby and they'll focus on it instead:  |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:13:29 PM EST
[#31]
Stealing an Interstate 69 or I69 sign was a right of passage for us bored rural teens.
Big Beaver Road area was a little too populated to get away with it. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:18:15 PM EST
[#32]
Change the sign to 96 St or
70-1 St |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:19:36 PM EST
[#33]
Protect it with a condom.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:21:08 PM EST
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah this is what the state does to every mile 69 marker, for the same reasons. 68.9 They also steal mile 420 signs. Oshkosh also has a street called High Street which runs through campus there. Those signs frequently dissappear. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:25:18 PM EST
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I was thinking get some of that stuff that looks like cardboard but is made out of plastic and use a permanent marker, but same diff. Just make it so cheap and shitty looking that nobody will want it. Nail it to a tree. Like a political sign? Just have a bunch printed commercially, but certainly a cheaper option than a metal sign. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:25:47 PM EST
[#36]
Move.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:26:17 PM EST
[#37]
Any reason you didn't put a GPS tracker like an AirTag on the thing?
You could have a lottery among the home owners to see who gets to knock on the door to pay for the thing. 
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:27:10 PM EST
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just not to 420 Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Change the street name. Just not to 420 Colorado found that our real quick with mile marker 420s kept getting stolen. Now they are 419.9. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:27:24 PM EST
[#39]
Petition to change road name
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:28:35 PM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My local next door has a group of homeowners that want to change their street name from stoner avenue so the sign will stop getting stolen ... to Armalite Rifle Way, perhaps?
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:28:48 PM EST
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My assumption is they will just cut the pole at whatever level they can reach and take the sign. whose sense of humor never graduated high school. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Get an old telephone pole, mount it out of reach . It is the only way they stopped stealing the "Butts Rd " signs around here My assumption is they will just cut the pole at whatever level they can reach and take the sign. whose sense of humor never graduated high school. I’m nowhere near the area! |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:30:13 PM EST
[#42]
Sierra November instead.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:30:25 PM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: LXIX You may never get pizza delivered correctly again, unless you say el, ex, eye, ex for the street name And then you have to deal with the jerks who look at it and decided to steal a sign that can be (improperly, but so what) pronounced "Licks it" |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:31:47 PM EST
[#44]
Nothing to steal.
4’ wide. 7’ tall concrete wall/column. Just paint it on both sides. Cute town logo or other below. Or 8’ tall 10" diameter concrete pole. Paint it on vertically. Or see below… |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 2:32:23 PM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Get big boulder delivered to end of street. Paint 69th street on it. This is the best answer. Put a solar light to illuminate it |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:01:14 PM EST
[#46]
deer hunting one year we decided to go to a titty bar in Spread Eagle, Wi.
planned on getting the sign on the way home, somebody beat us to it |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:24:18 PM EST
[#47]
Know someone with a portable welding rig on a truck?
New sign, MIG the bolts on both ends. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:27:48 PM EST
[#48]
Use a piece of drill stem for the post. Bolt.the sign on. Bend bolts with a hammer after tightening.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:29:22 PM EST
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Use a piece of drill stem for the post. Bolt.the sign on. Bend bolts with a hammer after tightening. Paint sign on plate, weld to pipe. If they go through the effort they can keep it |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:33:34 PM EST
[#50]
70th-1 street
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