Who in thier right mind would want this???

https://kalamazoo.craigslist.org/grd/d/stop-sign-vintage/6441732061.html

Possession of such is illegal in many states. Sales of that sign only encourage theft to the detriment of public safety. When I worked for the county we would throw the vandalized signs in the recycle bin. The aluminum is of value.

shameless dude wrote: yep...bet the sign isn't even his!

This was about 10 - 15 years ago, in Lincoln NE. Guy advertised is traffic/Street sign collection for sale in the paper. Cops raided his place, confiscated the collection, and gave him a ticket. When the guy went to court, he had every receipt from each purchase of a sign, turns out each one had been purchased legally. Cost the county a lot of money for that mistake. As far as the original question goes, what does it matter, if someone wants it, is willing to pay for it, more power to them. It's not for me to decide/question how someone should spend their money. 

Edited by bigal121892 - 31 Dec 2017 at 11:42am

When I was in high school, we would try to hit the road signs with a glass pop bottle (remember those) thrown out the passenger side car window.  [Disclaimer: I never claimed to be the wisest teenager.]

I think that if kids were required to participate in each step of the sign's manufacture, then sent out with locators to determine where utilities were located, then equipment to set the post, then install the sign, then attend to the scene when there was a grisly accident, transport vicitms to the hospital, and then inform the vicitims' loved ones of their loss, there would be much less vandalism of signs.

What amazes me about people shooting at signs (and I'm an avid marksman...) that every one I see is located where it is blatantly unclear downrange for a miss or through-shot.  The irresponsibility of shooting a 3/8" hole in a sign is one thing... but allowing a projectile to continue free flight downrange is entirely unacceptible, and warrants much higher disapproval.

I am NOT surprised to see people legally 'owning' old signs-  it's not unusual nowdays to see traffic agencies doing regular replacement, because new sign manufacturing techniques and materials allow the use of enhanced retroreflective materials... they shed dirt and dust, and shine brighter.  It's less expensive from manufacturing perspective to replace the old sign panel, rather than try to remove, straighten, strip, and reapply the face.  What SHOULD happen, however, is that removed signs should be marked with an impression stamp of ID, then offered for sale  at say... twice the scrap value of the materials and time invested... along with a bill of sale AND a 501c donation receipt for the tax-deductable charitable donation to local infrastructure.

ANY kind of signage, be it municipal, official, commercial, etc., is all 'historical' in nature, and for that which was intended for 'public' has already been paid for by public funds... it is therefore my opinion that if they're taken out of service and slated for disposal, that the general public should have first-right-of-refusal access to it for any purpose other than simple recycling.  If people like to collect memorabilia, they should not be deprived of that which they already own.  IMO, the same goes for old municipal equipment- if someone wishes to purchase an old road grader for scrap value because they wish to have it for their own personal collection, the governmental entity must allow it, rather than forcibly condemn the machine to destruction.

Flyer wrote: When I was in high school, we would try to hit the road signs with a glass pop bottle (remember those) thrown out the passenger side car window.  [Disclaimer: I never claimed to be the wisest teenager.]

Had classmates in high school, that would throw beer bottles at mail boxes. Well, one night one of the dumb**** threw a beer bottle at a mail box and missed, so, they went back and he decided to karate kick the mail box. Did I mention the mailbox was on a big spring?After the kick, the mailbox came back and broke his nose, check bone, and jaw. Still laughing about it 37 years later.

Looks to me that the sign needed to replaced. Vandalized and shot up like that. So the Township or whoever took it in for scrap or sold it at a surplus auction. Then a guy that works at the scrap yard took it home. Not all old signs are hot.

Well, we've all heard the old saying = one mans trash, is another mans treasure.