indyfabz

It's in/near Morgantown, PA.

indyfabz

Back in the late 70s I dated a girl whose foster parents had a rule that you didn't flush your paper but instead did the above. I guess it was to avoid septic system problems. There was a little, lidded, plastic waste bin lined with plastic. Glad I never had to take a dump when I was there.

The welcome center where I saw the sign is right off I-80, which leads to the N. Jersey/NYC area. It's a pretty area and gateway to the Poconos, so it sees a good number of tourists from the city, including busloads of foreign tourists. That's why I wonder if it means "TP goes only in the toilet" or if they were trying to say "Only TP goes in the toilet" (as opposed to things like paper towels).

mev

In Australia, one needs to watch for


Magpies (Canberra)


Deep holes (Coober Pedy)


UFOs (WA/SA border)

stardognine

I wonder if your magpies are the same as the ones in the U.S.? 🤔 I'd never seen one until coming to Colorado, but they're really cool, I think. I call them flying penguins, lol. 😁

indyfabz

Magpies can be very aggressive.

djb

mev, I like the one about the unmarked holes. I take it they are not wells, but a natural thing all over the place?
Pretty dramatic visuals though eh?

mev

My understanding is that magpies in Australia are different species than those in Colorado. Wikipedia page describes the sometime behavior under "swooping" - wikipedia:Australian magpie

mev

It is a bit of a special situation having to do with opals.

Coober Pedy is in an area with naturally occurring opals. Many of these are found in seams some 50m-100m below the surface. At the time I visited, Australia had a bit of wild-west spirit where anyone can stake a claim of 100mx100m and then go mining for opals. You can't have more than one (or two?) claims at a time and there were not a lot of large institutional mines. Instead, there were what I called three generation of miners:

1. First generation has a machine to dig a vertical shaft down to the opal field. These are big enough to fit a person and what the signs were warning about. Once they get to the seam, the first generation miners dig horizontally looking for opals. When they think they've mostly exhausted things, they give up their claim.
2. Second generation stakes a claim on some land that already has the vertical holes dug. They go back down to the seams, and using explosives follow those seams a bit further until they think they've exhausted things and give up their claim. Sometimes they bring large amounts of rock to the surface to sift through looking for opals.
3. Third generation stakes a claim on land that has big piles dirt. They have machines that are efficient and go through those large dirt piles once more to find opals that might have been missed.

The net result is in a not very large area, that land has some ~~250,000 mine shafts. Many of them are 1 or 1.5 meters wide and go down 30-100 meters deep. So the signs really do point out a hazard where you want to be careful when wandering around away from the road.


An example of opal mining debris brought to the surface to look for opals


This was already in the museum in 2001 when I took this photo. However the sign was actually used earlier in the town drive in theatre to remind patrons to not drive their trucks directly from the fields to the movies without offloading explosives.

stardognine

Thanks for that link. 👍 I see they're actually quite a bit different-looking, even though both are black & white, and both could be called flying penguins, by a big goof like me. 😁
There's another bird here, that looks kinda like a robin, but with a bright yellow chest & front. These guys have even more varied calls, than magpies. I bet they can make 100 different sounds, in about an hours time. 😮

djb

yowzer, 250,000 shafts only 1 to 1.5 m wide going down that deep, thats a spicey meatball aint it?

thats a great drive-in sign

cyccommute 

Not in my experience. At least not towards humans. I've never seen a magpie exhibit the kind of behavior that mev's sign details. I have seen that kind of sign here in the US near redwing blackbird nesting sites. They can be highly aggressive especially during nesting.

European magpies are corvids and related to crows. The magpie that is in Australia is a passerine which includes about half the worlds bird population.

saddlesores

not exactly a road sign, but transportation related.

big sign in bus terminal listing all the stuff not allowed on board.

makes you wonder what happened and when, that made them specifically include............

saddlesores

what can one say?......

autonomy

First time I saw one of these was in Quebec City a few years ago. Now they've been installed in multiple places in the Boston area - we're catching up!

Huh, that's a weird sign, especially as noted for Westhampton...

Green River Covered Bridge?

Hah, I wonder why that sign is enclosed in an iron frame...

​​​​​​​Is that unusual for the rest of the country? There are plenty of signs here in MA reading "SLOW CHILDREN"; I always get a chuckle out of them when I see one. Could use some punctuation for sure

Papa Tom

I saw this one in New Hampshire, but there seem to be several of them across the USA. I wonder if Donald trump owns this chain? (By the way, I love Chinese food and I love all my Chinese friends.)

stardognine

I keep thinking lately, about Warren Zevon's "Werewolves Of London". "Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein". 😀

Deal4Fuji

Lee Ho Fook's must have closed down

Paul Barnard

This one near the Mojave Desert caught my attention.

mev

Ambiguity...prohibited but use the right shoulder (I-25 in New Mexico)

CliffordK

Is a motorcycle a "motor-driven cycle"?



It sounds a bit like driving through the lion cage at Wildlife Safari in Winston (they are now behind a fence, but in the past one drove into their cage). Motorcycles and convertibles not allowed.

Do they have free range lions in New Mexico?

stardognine

This one's kinda location-specific, but I liked it.

fietsbob

yes, 'Mountain lion' ..Cougars (Puma concolor), are wide ranging.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar

saddlesores

if you're gonna bring politics into it, then must have equal time....

saddlesores

if you believe that, i've got a....

saddlesores

Brad Pitt (Se7en, 1995): I saw you with the box... what's in the ****ing box?... tell me what's in the ****ing box!