Posted on 08/18/2015 2:28:22 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
BOISE, Idaho – If you're looking for milepost 420, you won't find it in Idaho.
Idaho transportation officials say the mile marker has been replaced with 419.9 signs to curb thieves eager to own a number associated with marijuana enthusiasts.
Turns out, Idaho isn't alone in this problem. States like Washington and Colorado have also replaced 420 signs with 419.9 after consistently having to replace them after thefts by supposed sticky-fingered stoners.
Adam Rush of the Idaho Transportation Department says officials have replaced the old sign along U.S. Highway 95 with "MILE 419.9," just south of Coeur d'Alene.
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The number "420" has long been associated with marijuana, though its origins as a shorthand for pot are murky.
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Folks who do not differentiate between “user” and “addict” are ignorant.
How very odd you live on University Dr. Signs. Strange name for a street.
Odder still that your house disappears monthly.
I gotta get me one of those 419.9 signs!!! I am thinking that there are no other mile markers out the with decimals.
Mile post 666 on I-10 in Texas was replaced with just a hachured marker. Too many people were stealing the 666 sign.
Gee, I’m confused, could you spell that out for me about why someone would want a Route 69 sign? Could it be people 69 years old want them, or just what is it???
Go to Missouri sometime. Them dummies have mile markers signs every freaking tenth of a mile!
“RFID chips...”
I recall a Freeper mentioning that his/her political yard signs repeatedly were being stolen. The solution? He/she rubbed poison oak all over the next sign that went up...
It disappeared one evening.
The neighbors son later came down with a very bad rash...
The signs were never taken again.
“Are you a gasoline addict?”
Yeah. When I don’t have any all I do is mope around the house and get hungry.
The little dweeb. I hope he had a masturbation problem.
Ouch!
Very funny observation!
Well, that can't be any fun.
When ending a sentence with an abbreviation you don’t have to double period.
Or is it?
You don’t have to double period when ending a sentence with an abbreviation.
As for my house, it does disappear at 4:19.9.
“Burma Shave? You are revealing you age.”
Get a chew of Mail Pouch and calm down.
Mile Post 69 on I77 here in Ohio has been stolen many times. North and south bound.
We have 1/10 marker signs here in N.J. It works out real well when you have to call AAA on a cold snowy night. It might be the only plus to living here.
I’m in Texas.
IH 10 runs 879 miles. IH 35 runs 407 miles. 3200 miles of interstate highways overall. With over 675,000 miles of roads total. (Ain’t Google wonderful?)
Couldn’t build roads signs fast enough to make 1/10 signs even if we wanted ‘em.
On the interstate from Milwaukee down to Chicago, near the Mars Cheese castle, there is a brown sign with white lettering that says “Bong Recreation Area”. I made the comment that I bet that sign is guarded 24 hours a day!
no names, please.
Obama put the .1 mile makers up as part of the 800+ billion in stimulus he pissed away when he first got into office.
California, of course. Thanks for the link or I’d have had to call up Prez Choom to find out.
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