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STOP. No really... STOP.

01:24 PM PT, May 5 2008

What you are looking at is not photoshoped. These were real signs in Oak Lawn, Illinois. In September 2007, Oak Lawn authorities began hanging these hilarious signs to all the city stop signs in an hopes it would encourage drivers to obey the law. Apparently the Illinois state department of Transportation failed to find this plan amusing and believed the signs violated the Federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices so now Oak Lawn is being forced to remove all their clever signs.

At least they were up long enough for a few laughs. In all honesty, these signs would make me stop, exit my car and snap a few touristy pictures. That's legal right? [ Stop In the Name of Love ]

May 5, 2008 | Permalink

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Christie St. Martin

Christie St. Martin was born in Bermuda and educated at two Canadian universities that would prefer not to be mentioned here until she supplies them with healthy building endowments. An uber-geek and proud of it, she established herself as an Internet presence with All Things Christie, a blog that managed, with its quirky and unabashedly self-indulgent links to and commentary on whatever struck her fancy or her ire, to attract small legions of readers, fans and would-be stalkers. Her interests were as they are: myriad and eclectic, though certainly given to a particular fondness for the tech-y, the game-y and the kitschy. She is her own organizing principle, a kind of mad surfer on the crests of cultural lunacy, alternately acerbic, ecstatic and unintentionally insightful. She has since blogged for VH1's "Best Week Ever" and Exhausticated.com, providing her usual melange of cheek, snark and occasional observation. Christie also contributes to LAT's Hero Complex blog.

If you have any cool videos, Web pages or photos that you think should be on this blog, e-mail the link (no attachments, please) to cstmartin@gmail.com

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