Travel enough around this strange planet of ours and eventually, you’ll come across a sight that stops you in your tracks. The awe of the Great Barrier Reef or the magical aura of Machu Picchu for example.
In a similar, if not more modest vein, foreign signs of all types can cause us to gape in amazement and whip out our digital camera. The pictures may not make the pages of National Geographic but they do make for great laughs and dinner conversation.
Some of these signs from around the world are just too weird to believe but trust us, they do actually exist. Some legitimately warn of real danger while others warn of, well, we’re still not quite sure. So enjoy these wacky gems and be grateful some soul with a sense of humour was around to take a snapshot for posterity.
Hawaii has wicked waves to surf but from time to time, the swells get a little too gnarly for even the bravest rider. You would think the need to construct elaborate signs to warn people about the inherent dangers would be moot but enough brainless thugs have apparently met their maker to warrant these hilarious pictograms. Or perhaps enough lawsuits lost forced the state’s hand. Whatever the case, extra points go to the graphic designer who came up with the sperm-like jellyfish depictions above and the menacing monster wave below.
Safety Sign in Yorkshire, England
Leave it to the English to create what has to be the most long-winded, loquacious, bombastic sign in the history of historic site signs. Look, they even got us into it. Whatever happened to “Mind Your Step”?
“No Rain Allowed” Sign in China
This sign is explicit proof that the Chinese have finally taken over the world. Ok, we surrender! Your government and people have obviously harnessed the ability to control the weather, what with this sign and all. We need no further proof. Now just declare the area directly above and around the sign a “no fly zone” for X-Men member Storm and be done with it.
Explicit Directions, Japanese Style
Japan is a nation of precision. The bullet trains are never late. Sushi masters slice fish with remarkable accuracy. And Sumos, I suppose, are very precise in their mannerisms as well. So no surprise then, that this sign would categorically declare in detail how to reach the final destination. The obvious question is, what if I were to jog vigorously? How long would it take then, huh?
Any animal lover is well aware of the recent spate of attacks on reptiles by a group of perverse degenerates. These people are deviates at best and need to be stopped. The fact that the miscreants have unleashed their base urges on poor, defenseless crocs, caymans and now gators, is enough to turn anyone’s stomach. Good on Florida conservationists then to erect this sign and pass a statute. We just wish the fine were higher.
Imagine the poor saps who think they’re about to feast on some world famous roast duck. They’ve travelled far and wide to arrive here, at the original “QuanJuDe” Roast Duck Restaurant. It’s the original so it has to be the best, right? There’s just one little problem. The restaurant is actually just down the road. A little further on is all, like about oh … 80 miles. Oh, and it’s on your left.
If you’re ever in Germany, Bavaria to be specific, head on down to Mount Wank for some rollicking good fun. We’re not sure what goes on there, but we’ve heard things. Naughty things.
You’d think whoever named the actual mountain would have thought to consult a German-English dictionary first. It’s not like there are mountains in England named Abzapfen.
Finally, a road sign that tells it like it is. How many times have you wanted to tell your wife to shut her piehole so you can concentrate on the road? Well now you have a sign to not only sanction that very normal request but possibly criminalize those women who ignore it. At least that’s what we read into it.
Have you ever been to Mongolia and wondered, where the hell am I going to park? Well as this sign clearly states, right the hell here. But not anywhere else. The other spots are reserved.
We really feel for the security guard who works the late shift at this museum. Because we assume closing time is like, never. What time is 25:00 anyway? Is it the same as 13pm? We can never figure out that darn 25 hour metric system.
Random Information Sign in Canada
We know the population density of Canada is about the same as on the planet Jupiter but this is ridiculous. Clearly, the sign below exhorts visitors to talk to some kind of advanced robotic cement sidewalk in order to get information. We knew there weren’t a lot of people in Canada but to think they had mastered this kind of technology was absurd. Or is this just an example of that notorious Canadian export, dry wit? Nah.
