Pair caught on Camera stealing road sign

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Traffic cameras are great for checking traffic flow, weather conditions and crash sites.

On Wednesday morning, one York County camera was also good for catching a pair of men who appear to be stealing a road sign.

A state Department of Transportation employee was doing a routine camera check and saw two men taking a sign on Interstate 83 in the area of the southbound Shrewsbury exit ramp, according to safety press officer Fritzi Schreffler. The camera showed two men clearly taking one of two signs from that spot and placing it in the back of a silver pickup.

PennDOT employee gets a surprise when looking through state's traffic cameras
 
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There is a residential part of town close to where I grew up that has parallel streets about a mile long, lined on both sides by homes. Because of complaints about kids bombing down the road well in excess of the 25 mph speed limit, the city decided to put in speed bumps. Soon after, the city decided to put up warning signs that said "speed hump". Those signs kept getting stolen as fast as they could put them up. What teenager wouldn't want a "speed hump" sign in his bedroom?

Some of the residents tried to explain that if the city would change it to read "speed bump" the signs would stop disappearing. ODOT officials never did awaken to the double meaning of the word "hump". I believe those signs are still there to this day. I suddenly have the urge to drive over and check.
 
When I was at EKU in the mid to late 70's, it was rumored that the campus police would use binoculars to look into dorm rooms looking for stop signs that had been taken by students and placed in their rooms.
 
There is a short road in Burnsville Ms named "Epperson" st. That's my last name and is also where my father and earliest of the epperson's hail from. I would dearly LOVE to have that sign hanging in my man cave since it actually is from my actual family beginnings. The thought crossed my mind to check it and see if it was loose. But I just don't have what it takes to do that (no, I don't mean a wrench). I even went to the little town square city hall and offered to pay for a new one if I could only have the old one. That was several years ago and they didn't accomadate me. I'd pay green money to have that sign, I just couldn't imagine being on the evening news from taking it.
My mother was from a place called "Blackjack" ms but the sign on that road is taken so much that the pole has been vacant for the last few years.

Roger
 
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I couldn’t find Lukenbach Texas, where everybody is somebody.
Where ain’t nobody feeling no pain.
This was back when the Song came out.
Folks stole the signs faster than the Hwy Dept could put them up.
We were several miles past there when I realized, we missed it!

I found it...back in 2016... :)
 

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