"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux)
01/10/2014 at 18:38 • Filed to: None
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"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux)
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"Thieves have been stealing the 420 mile marker sign so often, the state's transportation department has changed it to "419.99" in an effort to try and stop the problem.
A photo of the 419.99 mile marker sign, which is about 148 miles on Interstate 70 east of Denver, began circulating on twitter through the @JournalistsLike twitter account on Friday.
"So this is our way to test it out. So far it's working," said Amy Ford, a spokesperson with the Colorado Department of Transportation. "It's a traffic safety thing. It's a helpful thing to have these sings on the road. But people kept ripping them off."
The number 420 is often used as a reference to smoking marijuana.
The 419.99 sign has been put up within the last year Ford said.
Ford also says they've had problems with thieves stealing the 69 mile marker sign in the past."
source: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
ttyymmnn
> 505Turbeaux
01/10/2014 at 18:41 |
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The number 420 is often used as a reference to smoking marijuana.
Really? I must be getting old. Can't keep up with the lingo.
KB Garage
> 505Turbeaux
01/10/2014 at 18:42 |
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"So far it's working" .... Until this goes viral. Then it won't.
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505Turbeaux
> KB Garage
01/10/2014 at 18:43 |
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I kind of want the .99 sign more :)
POD
> 505Turbeaux
01/10/2014 at 18:43 |
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I think I'd rather have this new sign.
Bigger question, did they move the sign .01 miles to keep it accurate?
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KB Garage
> 505Turbeaux
01/10/2014 at 18:46 |
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Exactly. See?
Read in Nick Swardson's voice:
"Say brah, know what time it is?"
points to 419.99 sign
"Almost, brah, almost"
RaymondStantz
> 505Turbeaux
01/10/2014 at 18:48 |
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505Turbeaux
> KB Garage
01/10/2014 at 18:51 |
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hahaha YES !
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KB Garage
> POD
01/10/2014 at 18:53 |
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That's 52.8 feet for those of you at home keeping score!
Aaron James
> ttyymmnn
01/10/2014 at 19:35 |
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I was a teen in the early 90's and it was used then. Not sure when it first became a fad though.
Edit: Wiki says 1971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420
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ttyymmnn
> Aaron James
01/10/2014 at 19:37 |
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When I would have, ahem, known of it, it was early to mid 80's. I gave it up when I got married in 1990. What does it refer to?
Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight
> 505Turbeaux
01/10/2014 at 19:40 |
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They were having problems with"Exit signs" along I70 and I25 for a few years (class of 78-99). I was in the class of 81 and someone hung the exit 81 sign over the stadium tunnel our class used after graduation.
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Aaron James
> ttyymmnn
01/10/2014 at 19:41 |
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I've heard multiple stories, but I edited my reply with the wiki post. Of course any knowledge I may or may not have had at the time was simply 2nd hand or for "informational" purposes only.
Rock Bottom
> 505Turbeaux
01/10/2014 at 20:23 |
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And then there's Michigan's unique little problem...
Dusty Ventures
> Rock Bottom
01/10/2014 at 21:47 |
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Anyone who manages to steal that sign deserves to have it
Lachlan - #ForzaJules
> ttyymmnn
01/11/2014 at 00:41 |
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I've heard it was (still is?) a code used by some police departments to refer to marijuana usage. i.e. "dispatch, I've got a 420 on main street, 2 individuals in possession of marijuana." I have no idea of that's true though.