When someone keeps stealing your street sign, it’s kind of difficult to give directions to your home. Residents who live on a private road in California have frequently faced this problem: their sign has been stolen five times, twice in the last two years. Named after a former gold mining camp, their street is called Glory Hole Drive.
That name presumably meant something different in a 19th-century gold mining context than it does today. A warning to anyone out there who is tempted to steal this or any similarly hilarious sign, though: it isn’t a victimless crime and the expense isn’t shared among many taxpayers.
For private roads like this one, it’s the people who live there who pay for sign replacement, not local government. A new sign costs about $300. CBS Sacramento points out that the last time Google Street View passed through the neighborhood, the sign was missing, too.
One resident observed that he has a habit of choosing homes on streets with highly stealable names: “We moved out from Alaska and our street name was Smoke Bowl,” he told CBS Sacramento.
Glory Hole Drive Sign A Target For Thieves Who Love Double Entendres [CBS Sacramento]
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
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