Washington State Wants to Stop Theft of Mile 420 and Mile 69 Signs. Solution? Mile 419.9. Mile 68.9

[Demovictory9]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/12/us/washington-highway-sign-420.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

The Washington State Department of Transportation has a problem that just won’t go away.

For years, people have persistently stolen those green and white mile markers posted along the highway. The most popular signs to pilfer are Mile 420, a popular number among marijuana enthusiasts, and Mile, ahem, 69. (If you don’t know that one by now, we can’t help you.)

“They will typically go and take those more than anything,” said Trevor McCain, who specializes in driver information signs at the Transportation Department. “They have special meanings to some people.”

So the sign aficionados in Washington had to get creative. In hot spots for sign theft, they’ve simply moved the highway marker back one-tenth of a mile and tweaked the sign to say Mile 419.9. Or Mile 68.9.

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[cilla4progress]

1. ❤️❤️❤️

my state.

[brush]

2. They'll take those too, almost as cool and good conversation starters.

[Journeyman]

3. Sure will. As the old joke says . . .

"Let's 68 and I'll owe you one."

[TlalocW]

4. I took a selfie with the 419.9 mile marker in Colorado

When I returned from a vacation there three years ago. I would have stolen it except the highway was very busy.

I like to think that for a time, stoners would go out to steal the 420 sign, stop at the 419.9, and then walk a little ways past it to see the 420 had "already been stolen" and just go back home.

TlalocW

[safeinOhio]

5. Famous intersection north of Detroit.

M69 and Big Beaver.

[lostnfound]

6. Mass produce and sell them...duh. Nt