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Imagine if CalTrans knew about the fake sign, and the bolts failed prematurely relative to their official signs and fell on a car.
by oh_sigh 5y ago
Imagine if CalTrans knew about the fake sign, and the bolts failed prematurely relative to their official signs and fell on a car.
- wombatmobile 5y agoShit happens https://australianweldingsolutions.com.au/tullamarine-freeway-sign-falls-was-it-a-weld-failure/ https://australianweldingsolutions.com.au/tullamarine-freewa...
- advantager 5y agoCalTrans actually found out about it after 9 months, inspected it, then left it up for an additional 8 years before the entire sign was replaced. https://gizmodo.com/how-one-fed-up-dude-fixed-an-awful-highway-sign-himself-1686373438 https://gizmodo.com/how-one-fed-up-dude-fixed-an-awful-highw... > For about nine months, only a small group of people knew that the Interstate 5 shield hanging above the 110 freeway was a forgery. Then one of Ankrom's friend leaked the story to a local paper. And that's how Caltrans found out. > Ankrom had hoped he could get his sign back from Caltrans after they took it down; he figured he would hang it in an art gallery. But Caltrans didn't take the sign down. His guerrilla sign had passed the Caltrans inspection. > More than eight years after after Ankrom's sign went up, he got call from a friend who noticed some workers taking it down. It had been replaced with as part of routine maintenance.