The next time we have an “America’s Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response” (aka AMBER Alert), we might want to fix our sign. This is how it looked in the SOMA on Friday.
Seems this is good enough for government work, as it’s been this way since at least May 2008:
“Driving home the other day there was an Amber Alert. But, the freeway sign was broken so there was, apparently, a Chili Abduction. I wonder how many alarms?”
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The missing dots in the matrix affect legibility – like what does “TCY P/U” mean?
Of course we can figure it out, but we’re not applying for a job at Google (famous for harassing prospective employees with brain teasers), we’re driving down the superslab trying to talk on the phone, drink coffee and clear the jams on the mobile fax machine.
So please CalTrans, or CHP, or whomever, fix our sign!
Tags: abduction, amber alert, America's Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response, child, chili, San Francisco, sign, soma
that’s pretty clever. chili instead of child. brilliant.
It’s not a “C,” it’s an incomplete “O.” Gray 2000 Toyota pick-up. Sorry to ruin your fun. Chili is still funny, though. As funny as a child abduction can be.
We’ll just put you down as voting to keep the sign as it is. Signs that sit around unfixed for six+ months are still funny though. As funny as a child abduction can be.