If you travel a lot, you’ve probably noticed that street signs around the world are almost identical in every country you visit. That’s not a surprise – they are usually made in a way that everyone could understand them independent of nationality, and not get into trouble.
However, you will always notice even the slightest change in size or color if it differs from your hometown. Of course, slight differences in color and shape are nothing compared to the funny signs you are about to see because people’s stupidity (creativity?) around the world knows no bounds. In fact, these confusing signs do anything but help.
Starting with strange billboards and ending with weird town names and funny street names, this compilation of stupid signs has it all. There’s plenty of pedestrian crossing signs that don’t make sense and translation fails abound too. But we’d still like to know what’s the story behind a sign saying ‘Not responsible if seagulls eat your funnel cake.’ Did it happen that often? Do people really blame the cafe owner for that? Who knows.
Here is our list of 55 Funniest Signs Around the World- enjoy, comment and never forget to share it with other pandas!
1. $200 Fine
Bamboos for: jurvetson
2. Confusing Sign For Church
3. You Should Have Taken Bicycle Instead
Bamboos for: Alexander Somma
4. Translation Fail? Maybe Not
Bamboos for: TrevinC
5. Funny Pedestrian Crossing By Bar
Bamboos for: mtl2tky
6. Beware of People Crossing the Road
Bamboos for: Alex E. Proimos
7. Strange British Place Name
Bamboos for: ian boyd
8. Dinosaur Crossing
Bamboos for: emmar (catching up on photos v busy!)
9. BJ
Bamboos for: Doug Wallick
10. Funny Subway Signs
Bamboos for: Remy Sharp
11. Heavy Pedestrians Crossing
Bamboos for: TrombaMarina
12. Rainbow Rider
Bamboos for: BillRhodesPhoto
13. Mountain Lion
Bamboos for: ekai
14. Funny Street Sign For High Heeled Ladies
Bamboos for: espresso marco
15. Weird Town Name Or Traffic Accident?
Bamboos for: oh_candy
16. No Responsibility For Seagull Sign
Bamboos for: iirraa
17. Beware of Thieves
Bamboos for: scazon
18. Who’s Bob? Confusing.
Bamboos for: CaptPiper
19. Crows
Bamboos for: MIgracionTOtal
20. Don’t Do What…?
Bamboos for: -sel
21. No Swimming
Bamboos for: boldorak2208
22. Non-drying Paint
Bamboos for: clare_and_ben
23. Say No to Strangers and Strange Dogs Sign
Bamboos for: clare_and_ben
24. Don’t Ride Headless Horses
Bamboos for: Vallo
25. Annoying Penguins
Bamboos for: Silversprite
26. Sudden
Bamboos for: Silversprite
27. Problems With Elephants
Bamboos for: Silversprite
28. Funny Wild Children Sign
Bamboos for: Silversprite
29. Animal Sickness
Bamboos for: tenioman
30. Confusing Billboards From Church Again
Bamboos for: Sideshow Bruce
31. Don’t Hit This Sign
Bamboos for: josephleenovak
32. Sharp Edges
Bamboos for: dullhunk
33. Senior Citizens
Bamboos for: PittCaleb
34. No Laughing
Bamboos for: Toby87
35. Strange Sign That Actually Exists
Bamboos for: james_michael_hill
36. Control Your Pee
Bamboos for: un_owen
37. Dangerous Pigeons
Bamboos for: AMagill
38. May Lick You to Death
6. LGagnon
39. Beware of Owner!
Bamboos for: dan taylor
40. Always Use A Pedestrian Crossing
Bamboos for: doug88888
41. Tripping Hazard
Bamboos for: jcolman
42. Nowadays You Can’t Trust Anybody
Bamboos for: marctonysmith
43. At Least There’s No Translation Fail Or Misunderstanding
Bamboos for: geeknerd99
44. Glory Hole!
Bamboos for: eskimo_jo
45. Beware of Pegasus
Bamboos for: christophe dune
46. However, Cows Are OK
Bamboos for: http://capenomad.wordpress.com/
47. Be Careful
Bamboos for: Sree_
48. Car vs Bicycle Traffic Sign
Bamboos for: richardmasoner
49. Weird Sign Against Creeps
Bamboos for: wili_hybrid
50. No Shooting (notice the sign in the back)
Bamboos for: Silversprite
51. Low Flying Owls
Bamboos for: Silversprite
52. Linguistic Ambiguity Strikes Again
Bamboos for: Silversprite
53. Be Prepared
Bamboos for: Papaver Somniferum
P.S: you probably noticed that there are only 53 funny signs, and the title said 55. If you can’t live with that – send us your funny sign photo to ilove@boredpanda.com.
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Not sure why the Mountain lion one was supposed to be funny... It's mean to help those who have never seen a mountain lion. They will eat/attack your kids, you want to be as big and intimidating as possible so bending to pick them up is BAD, making noise can scare them... Maybe it's just because I grew up rurally that I think it's important for this sign to exist and that it's not funny.
Very funny Dumb Woman's Lane is just outside Rye in E Sussex UK I used to pass it all time
This sign was up for YEARS at Laguardia. http://hotelnightmares.com/spel-check/ Baggagge-5...9777ec.jpg
Not sure why the Mountain lion one was supposed to be funny... It's mean to help those who have never seen a mountain lion. They will eat/attack your kids, you want to be as big and intimidating as possible so bending to pick them up is BAD, making noise can scare them... Maybe it's just because I grew up rurally that I think it's important for this sign to exist and that it's not funny.
Very funny Dumb Woman's Lane is just outside Rye in E Sussex UK I used to pass it all time
This sign was up for YEARS at Laguardia. http://hotelnightmares.com/spel-check/ Baggagge-5...9777ec.jpg