Wednesday, August 10, 2005

A Passion for Tailgating Prevention

Example

I took this photo in Mendon, MI. This sign sits in the front yard of someone's house.

It reads "Don't customize your car like Freddy. Drive Safely this 4th of July!" Obviously the image depicts Fred rear-ending a dinosaur. The dinosaur's tail reads "Don't tailgate"

Please note the sign is lit with two floodlights and lined with Christmas lights. (not to mention it was completely hand painted)

I've talked to other people who live in Mendon who've seen the sign. They too have no clue what this is all about. I guess someone is truly passionate about tailgating prevention? Strange.

1 comment:

sammo said...

You ain't kidding about a pocket of weird. For about two months straight I felt like I couldn't go anywhere without seeing something bizarre. Unfortunately that all came to a stop around the time I took the photo of the deer heads.

If you want alil' of that weirdness take yourself a trip to Three Rivers and Mendon. Both places seem to be a haven of weirdness.

The Flintstone piece belongs to someone else but it's definitely meant to drive down property values.

As I think about it it would be interesting to do some short on-camera interviews with these different people and post them here. I'd definitely have to break out my people skills for that...