Get Premium
Dark mode theme is available exclusively for premium users. Learn more about the benefits of subscribing.
No fees, cancel anytime.
Dark Mode 
No fees, cancel anytime 
English judge Sir Edward Coke wrote in 1604 that a person's house is their "castle and fortress." Four hundred years later, the statement still stands. Only now, we’ve added a mobile extension to our estate.
Our cars are not just machines that get us from point A to point B, but also a way for us to show off our taste, opinions, and, sometimes, complete lack of restraint.
The subreddit r/BumperStickers is proof of that. It's a place where people share the funniest, strangest, and downright unhinged messages they spot on the streets.
This post may include affiliate links.
RELATED:
In one survey, CarMax Inc. found that the number one reason people display bumper stickers, decals, or magnets on their cars is to make a statement about themselves, their values, and their interests.
Of the respondents who had not displayed a sticker, nearly a quarter said it was simply because they hadn't found one that represented them.
#3
I'm Only Driving This Until
Bored Jellyfish 2 hours ago
I’m holding onto my car until they start offering them, sans touchscreens, with buttons, McKnobs, dials, and analog speedometers.
#4
I've Never Actually Took The Time To Think About, Honestly
And it's not just big companies that are capitalizing on the demand. Since bumper stickers are so deeply personalized, individual designers have found success as well.
For example, one that made the rounds around Brooklyn said, "Keep Honking! I'm Listening to Alice Coltrane's 1971 Meteoric Sensation 'Universal Consciousness.'"
As it gained popularity all over the United States, it turned out that the creator was Los Angeles-based artist Christopher DeLoach.
#6
Wondering, Waiting, Wishing
Bored Jellyfish 2 hours ago
Then we’ll just end up with a multiverse that might be worse than the original.
#7
I Wholeheartedly Agree
#8
Keep The Immigrants Deport The Racists
#9
Found In Classroom I’m Subbing In Today
DeLoach told GQ that he first came up with the idea for the bumper sticker while listening to Alice Coltrane’s rendition of "Going Home" (which appears not on Universal Consciousness but on 1973’s Lord of Lords). That same day, he happened upon the classic vintage bumper sticker, "Keep Honking, I'm Listening to Jazz" and decided that message could be improved.
DeLoach estimates that he gave away the first 300 or so to friends and friends of friends, but in a few months, he found himself selling several hundred a week. "I was mailing them out in these large manila envelopes, which I had never foreseen myself doing," he said.
#10
Abso-Freakin-Lutely!!
DeLoach has sold around 8,000 bumper stickers so far: still a fairly niche phenomenon, but enough to help him financially.
The stickers, which retail for $7 each, have paid for his studio over the past year and allowed him to subsidize the cost of investing in a restaurant he opened in Mexico a few years ago.
#14
Seemed Like A Good Time To Re-Post
#16
Portland Oregon
Der Kommissar 1 hour ago (edited)
D4VD's Tesla? Too soon ? here's a handy hint for you first-time murderers; don't stash the corpse in the trunk of your own car.
However, bold statements aren't always universally accepted. University of Cincinnati researchers found that political polarization is seeping into bumper stickers as well.
UC College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Professors Rachel Torres and Ben Farrer said people who watched a driving simulation in which the motorist ahead of them cut them off in traffic were more likely to honk if the offending vehicle had a political bumper sticker, particularly one for the party they did not support.
#18
Survive Out Of Spite
#20
Small Town In- McDonald's Drive Thru
Torres and Farrer conducted attitude surveys with paid volunteers, who then took part in a short driving simulation. In half of the simulations, another vehicle cut them off without signaling. The offending vehicle featured either no sticker or one of three bumper stickers: "Proud Democrat," "Proud Republican," or the neutral "I love my dog."
In the other half of the simulations, the other vehicle stayed in its own lane before making an unremarkable left turn.
"It activated their partisan hostilities," said Torres, who teaches political science in UC's School of Public and International Affairs.
For more, check out these 53 Crazy Bumper Stickers People Have Spotted In The Wild.
#22
Found In A Target Parking Lot
#23
What’s The Story Here ?
#24
Samesies!
Lily bloom 4 hours ago
I used to have a bumper sticker that read "visualize using your turn signal"
#25
Spotted On A Subaru
#26
Hell Yeah Brother. Seen Is Bisbee, AZ
#27
Maybe That Was The Point All Along?
David 1 minute ago
Most were by pressing not burning, and they did men too, not as many, but they got men as well. It was political, bc all the victims whenever it happened (like medieval France, or Salem, etc) it was always people who were in a major fight with the current established political power.
#33
I Feel This In My Soul
#34
Gem I’ve Seen As A Repo Mechanic
Lily bloom 4 hours ago
Love the bottom one. Have a day has a special place in my heart due to the poster I had on my wall in the 90s and later found again many years later that hangs on my wall currently. However, "have the day you deserve" is more apt due to *gestures widely*
#36
Ok True
#40
White Van Sticker
Lily bloom 4 hours ago
Too many windows to be a competent kidnappers van. Hypothesis - religion does not equal intelligence
#41
Um. What
#42
Just Got A New Car And Want To Put A Bumper Sticker On. Which One Would You Let Merge?
#45
This Person Knows The Witch Of November Very Well
#46
This Person Means It , LOL
#47
Scratch And Sniff
#48
Warsaw Indiana
#50
Do You Like My Stickers?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 hours ago
The small-text ones on the right: "My favorite 'far left' idea is that people should be able to afford a roof over their heads" - "Make lying wrong again; make America think again; make humans matter again; make people care again" - and "No one's treading on you, sweetie"
#53
Meaning?
#54
Bumper Sticker In Toronto
#55
For The Project Hail Mary Fans
#56
That Escalated
Norm Gilmore 1 hour ago
I read a SF story where all works as normal. Until the day people stop believing in things working because the majority of people don't know HOW they work. Cue cars stopping on roads, planes falling from the sky....
#57
Satanism Is A Thing? Or A Tongue In Cheek Atheist??
#58
I’m Covered In Bugs And I Vote!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 hours ago
I, too, love roly-polies! When I see them crossing the sidewalk, I pick them up gently and put them into the nearest dirt/grass so no one will step on them XD
#59
"I Saw Your Husband On Grindr"
#60
Resist
#61
Please Explain This To Me
#62
What Does This Mean?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 hours ago
No Lot Lizards. Apparently "lot lizard" is a term for the ladies you can hire by-the-hour in truck stop parking lots. I know this because.... uh... I read books. Yes.
#65
Aged Like Absolute Milk
#67
I’ve Had The Defund Paw Patrol Sticker Scratched Off Twice
#68
Ughhh Good Lord Wth Are We Witnessing
#69
My Hometown Keeping It Classy As Usual
#70
Oh My
#71
Oof
#72
I Don’t Understand Their Way Of Thinking
Add New Image
Explore more of these tags
What do you think ?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 hours ago
In the below comments, see a selection of just some of the stickers and decals I've plastered on my beloved '01 VW Eurovan XD
Lukas (alt) 4 hours ago
Love the companion cube ones!!! I still haven't finished the first Portal game, but I replay Portal 2 at least once a year.
Load More Replies...
Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 1 hour ago
Alyce - let me guess who you voted for in the last several presidential elections?
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 hours ago
In the below comments, see a selection of just some of the stickers and decals I've plastered on my beloved '01 VW Eurovan XD
Lukas (alt) 4 hours ago
Love the companion cube ones!!! I still haven't finished the first Portal game, but I replay Portal 2 at least once a year.
Load More Replies... Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 1 hour ago
Alyce - let me guess who you voted for in the last several presidential elections?
Load More Replies...
Related on Bored Panda
