'Poop' stop sign: Clever prank or vandalism?
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PORTLAND, Ore. – At first glance, it looks like a normal stop sign. But take a second look at a few stop signs around town and you’ll see some prankster made a few alterations.
Several signs that previously read “stop” now say “poop.” Somebody put a “po” sticker over the “st” to make the change.
The vandal or vandals clearly spent some time matching the exact color of red background, size and font to make it look seamless.
We spotted some of the signs in Northeast Portland and others in Old Town.
Some people who noticed got a good laugh out of the signs, although many people we talked to didn’t even notice the signs had been altered when they drove by.
“I think it’s funny, I enjoy it,” one man said as he passed by an Old Town sign.
City employees have already removed some of the stickers from stop signs in the Laurelhurst neighborhood.
We put calls in to the city to find out just how many signs have been targeted, but we have not yet heard back. We also want to ask the city how much it costs to clean up the signs.
Do you know who put the stickers up? Email our newsroom at newstips@katu.com
Now this is funny...
Sorry if I stunk your town up. I thought it was real.
A few of these signs are funny. I smiled when I first saw this Wed night on tne news, but it is sounding like it is a lot more than a few and will cost a bit too much to be considered a harmless prank.
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There is a reason that a "STOP" is a red octagon. It is the international symbol for HALT. Given a clear sight line, most of us can see a red octagon 200yd away, but how many can read the words? This implies that as a driver you are looking ahead though...
Looks like the work of the Pied Pooper, who POed a passle of pooptigons in a Portland Prank.
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Repoman, Â That's really a lot of POOP. Â Harmless prank. Â If it's something that can be peeled off the sign with no damage done to the sign, it would take a bureaucrat or an old curmudgeon to see this as vandalism. Â Which one are you?
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 I am both. But i prefer fuddyduddy.
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Again it's a safety issue. Yeah it's minor, but it will need to be undone. That costs money and money isn't free.
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Thus these folks should "pay back" the taxpayer for fixing their funny.
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Nothing against people being funny, but sometimes comedy comes at a price. A price the comedian should be ready to pay.
It's vandals, cleaver and funny vandalism but non the less work will have to be done to undo this, and it needs to be undone.
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Stop signs, like all traffic signs are retro reflective. Thus a sticker will prevent some of the sign from being seen well in headlights at night. If you've ever noticed spray pain on a sign that flattened it at night, you've seen the result of this. It is a minor safety issue.
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When caught these folks should be punished. Some community service cleaning up other stickers on signs should be the task (like the 911 was an inside job I see all over near PSU). Give them a taste of what city workers have to do to fix their comedy.
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 I know it is not right, but man that one is funny. I give keeping "Portland Weird" 1 point for that one. The Russian judges deducted 1/2 point for bubbles being in the adhesive.Â
This is almost as funny as removing the LER in a Muffler sign.
it's the organization of People Occupying & Overthrowing Portland, aka poop
Now that is funny! No longer the Occutards, now the poop-tards!
You can Polish a turd and it's still a turd.
The one way sign makes it funnier.
Obviously the work of somebody not paying taxes.
The guys are from vancouver.....i just bought some weed from them
POST OF THE DAY! HA HA HA HA HA...TOO FUNNY!
It's a light reminder that everybody loves to Poop, though nobody ever talks about it.
Hilarious!!!!!! I like it.
I think they should keep the sign the way it is! Â It doesn't matter what the sign says, it just matters that its there and is effective!
How many people actually READ a stop sign every time they come to one? You could write GO! on them and people would still stop because they recognise the shape and color.
@iamtroglodite@yahoo.com YES! Exactly!
Haha, everybody here is a bunch of tightwads. Call me childish, but I find this HILARIOUS.
I can see someone clicking forward to share someones cute Photoshop project. But to go to all the trouble to purchase and make the stickers and to actually place them on a stop sign is lame. A 3rd grade mentality at best.
speciale: Thank God for 3rd grade mentality, then. I can always use a laugh!
Probably, the guy(s) who did this is just wanted to voice unhappiness with the harassment & ripping-off motorists by the city., with bogus regulations & outrageous fines for trumped-up "violations."Â The city certainly can afford to pay for the pretty funny protest, using the huge funds that it has misappropriated.
Hey! Why blur out the picture below the word? That's a picture worth a thousand words...or one.
Is it of the same reflective material ? is the cover up easily removable.. The only thing I can see wrong is this could be a distraction to drivers.
I ran this exact sign the other day...a car almost hit me....I pooped my pants then said "wow, what an appropriate sign!"
This is funny no matter how old you are LOL
don't you have to stop to poop?
 @From the OC Wouldn't know, Horses can do it on the go though.
It's too bad that everything has to be taken so seriously. Doesn't the ten year old in all of this think its a hoot !?!
So if I painted over stop lights and called it art does that mean I can get away with it?
 @Thebigboot In Portland, only if you do it in the nude.  Otherwise, some activist would have a cow.
 @Thebigboot In PDX the answer would be yes.  You could probably also get a city contract and be paid well for your art.
Only in Portland do the jerk-wads have time to do this type of vandalism, and the media has the gall to make it news!
 @jpk Yeah, Portland is the ONLY PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD where people have "had time" to do pranks.Â
 @jpk You just sound like a Whole Bunch of fun to be around, NOT! Dude, take a Laxative or something.
I like the ones that say "It's Hammer Time" under the Stop. "poop" is kind of juvenile. I really enjoy the LOVE signs people posted on the freeway on ramps in Vancouver though!
@Lisa STOP.... Hammer Time probably the best :)
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but I like this as well  STOP...... Collaborate and listen...
They forgot to add "happens" underneath..
oop is much funnier than hit. You only have to change 2 letters.
Whomever is responsible for this dirty business may soon find themselves in deep "Doodoo"Â
Hopefully! But not in weird Portland. Probably call it art and they'll get a medal!
 @jpk I am sure anything is "weirder" than your cave.Â
Maybe the "artist" is trying to say "Stop Poop".
I've seen couple stop signs in Portland that said "STOP" then underneath it "Eating Animals". Lol.
 @Liberty4_WA They should stop making animals out of meat then :)
Uh, oh. I was pretty sure those were official. Guess I'll have to go back with a baggie. Sorry, neighbors!