This Facebook Group Is Full Of The Funniest And Craziest Signs Found In Public, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Ones
InterviewI don’t know what is up with people and signs, and we might never find out, but some of them are super weird, confusing, and simply put, bad. If you are one of those people who like to capture and share those finds with your friends, well, oh boy, we have good news for you.
Crap Signs is a Facebook group dedicated to unbelievably bad signs spotted out in the wild. From misspelled to poorly constructed, they have it all. Currently, this group has almost 90k members, and we believe it is just the beginning since bad signs are not going anywhere any time soon. So if by any chance you find yourself hoarding similar images in your photo gallery, finally they have an opportunity to be ‘appreciated’ by a wider audience.
To learn more about the origin of this group, Bored Panda got in touch with its creator Dave McGowan. Read the full interview below.
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Funny, but I'm not going to someone with that attitude to save my pupper's life. I suspect it's fake.
Load More Replies...Full of life or full of stuffing. Alive and kicking or statuesque and posed sitting. Ready to play or stuck in "stay".
Last time I brought my dog to the vet he came home trapped in a jar. If I rub it like a genie bottle he might come out?
Being the strange person I am, if I saw this on a vet's office, he's the vet I'd choose. But then, I have four of my past pets taxidermied, so that concept doesn't bother me.
Looks can be deceiving. Remember, only one of these two people have a felony conviction and spent time in jail.
What hard to reach places? Is it to burn off those annoying ear & nose hairs, or are you thinking crack & sack? Needs clearer instructions.
Maybe the oven? Mine was annoyingly hard to reach
Load More Replies...I had to google to see if this was legit. It is. Both got a multi-million dollar contract. I genuinely love how the most uptight social gatekeeper in the world and an OG have both mellowed with age so they can pay their bills by mocking themselves. I am not disparaging either one because its inspiring to see people grow to be more accepting, happy individuals.
I love that these two have become friends! I don't even care if it's a marketing ploy, as they always seem to be having so much fun!😀 More so, because before her incarceration, Martha could be kind of uppity & snarky. I think that was an eye- opener, and she came out more accepting. She seems to be embracing culture, having fun, making new friends, taking sexy selfies in the pool, Snoop has introduced her to the "greener" side of life😉 I'm not even gonna hate, get it Martha!
Which part don't you understand? The weed joke or the Martha went to jail and Snoop didn't joke?
Load More Replies...We are often drawn to specific subjects or interests for a reason. Many people are interested in cars, movies, technology, the arts, etc., and these interests frequently reflect the values and culture of our society. Some people, however, defy these shared interests and pursue their own unique passions.
Dave shared how his interest in ‘crap stuff’ has escalated over the years. “I’ve always been fascinated by crap stuff. A couple of years ago, I made a calendar of crap benches from the photos I’d taken whilst walking the LOOP and the Capital Ring in London. I also do crap drawings of bands and made a calendar from them last year. I started the Crap Signs group in February 2021; I had a fair amount of photos and was the only contributor for a short while, then Facebook picked up on it, and our membership began to snowball,” wrote Dave.
I don't understand this post's title, these have been great signs, not bad signs
...out the door? In circles? Into the nearest wall? I need more information!
I would not be able to resist touching the cat. Whereby it will promptly leave (probably).
Where is this? I can get that cat to leave and stray gone!! I will smother it with my love, and it will run away just like both of my cats.
Load More Replies...The way I see it, if someone pets the cat and they get a bit mauled, it's okay, because they're already at the health center.
Maybe they will sue you for bleeding on the carpet.
Load More Replies...The whole waiting room actually, it's just allowing patients to make company.
Load More Replies...Just make him the honorary mascot already. Kitty likes the building. Kitty owns the building.
Despite sign makers' best efforts, errors are all too common. Dave and his community have already seen a bunch of bad signs. However, some errors in signs are more frequent than others.“Most signs should really only exist to either provide directions or information, any that fail to do so due to grammatical errors, etc., have the potential to amuse, but I would say our favorite types would be passive/aggressive ones, and those that are so poorly made that you can’t help but laugh,” shared Dave.
Pro tip: It's actually easier if you temporarily remove the baby's diaper. The moisture absorbing gel gets messy plus any urine in the diaper can mess up water chemistry and possibly harm the fish. (this looks like it is from that booklet about how to raise kids. It's totally for humor but many of them are pretty funny.)
i've seen all of these signs before, they're hilarious, you should go check them out
Bonding with baby...yep, just hilarious until you get to the one that makes you think - well not exactly that but close - with your own kids. Throwing the boy in the air one day and he kind of sailed on me, had to scramble to make the fair catch!!!
Load More Replies...This should read: For ‘little squirts,’ ‘pain in the asses’ and for those that are in a ‘get dealt a crappy hand as a result.’….
Amazing how many BC transit memes there are, I live here and I feel it completely :P
Haha I was totally thinking I need to send this to my friend who's a BC Transit bus driver, then I saw the logo and was like "oh, never mind, he definitely would have seen this already"
Load More Replies...I need to print this out for my son! 😂 we have a 1/4 mile driveway downhill on a back road and have to drive him to the bottom of the driveway. He is lucky he has a nice (school) bus driver that will wait for a minute if he isn’t down there. I think she can see our headlights are on face road waiting for him.
Even though there are new signs made every day, Dave noted that there is little variation in trends and changes of what constitutes a bad sign. He wrote: “There are only so many categories and we pick what we think are the best of them.”There are certain commonalities among bad signs that continue to frustrate and confuse people, whether it's a misspelling, a confusing layout, or weird information. Despite efforts to improve signage design and quality, these persistent issues indicate that much work remains to be done in the field of sign-making.
As opposed to employed swine...which goes by another name altogether....
Load More Replies...You can't just leave some alive! They will remember your attempts to kill them and wait patiently for their opportunity to exact revenge
Yes exactly!!! Every summer they send a new army to me and plotting their revenge. Should i be worried?
Load More Replies...That's what the spider overlord told them to write.
Load More Replies...Maintaining a Facebook community can prove itself to be a piece of work. Dave shared what difficulties he and his team have encountered over the years and what he intends for people to take away from this group. “Mainly, we just want to make our members laugh, but we admins do like to stir things up now and then. What started out as something amusing for my mates has morphed into what can occasionally be a bit of a monster. Anything about sexual politics or veganism has a tendency to blow up in the comments section. I once had to wade in and break up a massive row that had started over some broccoli.”
I thought this was usually contained to the rest areas?
Load More Replies...They do that road adoption thing here in Washington state and I like it. Too many Americans DON'T take mental ownership of public spaces and treat them the way some people treat a rental car. I don't adopt roads (age /health / lack of friends lol) but I pick up trash here and there as I see it. If everyone did that we could look more like some place like Japan. Also of course if some folks didn't INTENTIONALLY throw it on the ground. (RHEEEeee!)
There's a place for all of god's creatures Right next to the mashed potatoes.
I think my favourite thing about Hebrews 13:8 is it only takes one exclamation mark to change the entire tone
HMM they clearly need another hammer and some more glass and some more hammers
Load More Replies...You break the hammer glass with fist, and break the window glass with hammer. The placement of the top sign is incorrect, its content is not.
Usually the glass that you are supposed to break with your fist or elbow has a couple of score lines in it already to facilitate the process.
Load More Replies...Is this China? Government censors blocking them from evil web sites such as Google translate.
They have Baidu translate! The message meant only Chinese spoken on calls.
Load More Replies...Who on earth takes Spanish classes, or any lesson at all, before 9am?
Load More Replies...I’ve also seen the reverse of this, especially on birthday cards here in the UK. I love you but Jesus thinks you’re a cünt!!!
I love how we use that word entirely different from Americans, especially here in Scotland.
Load More Replies...English isn't my first language, but "to take notice of safe the suppery are very crafty" doesn't really make sense, does it?
Pretty sure it's the SLIPPERY that are very crafty, which makes much more sense.
Load More Replies...pretty sure these are not sewer or septic system safe, however, if you s**t in a compost heap, go for it!
You know what's really funny about Americans hoarding toilet paper instead of food? 75% of the world's population doesn't use toilet paper! Think about that for a while...
I've always found it super icky to use just toilet paper 🤮
Load More Replies...Good grief, just stick your butt in the shower if you're out of tp. People will resort to anything but actually washing themselves, I swear.
Ah yes, the common lemon fish
Seeing the entire display - it is showing the typical concept of squeezing lemon juice onto fish, which if you have done this with an actual lemon will result in seeds ending up over the fish. Some people do not like this, s would probably quite like their seafood to be seedless after squeezing lemon juice onto it.
I love it when restaurants put the little hair-net-thing on half a lemon, so when you squeeze the juice on your food any seeds get caught in the net 😁👍
Load More Replies...You should look into what medieval people classified as seafood to get around Lent regulations.
Well, a beaver swims, so it must be seafood, right?
Load More Replies...If you break in they’ll bombard you with all the Bounty coconut chocolates as punishment.
This needs to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary immediately!
Load More Replies...Why is this so funny I cannot stop laughing hahahahahahahahahahaha help
And I know the restaurant issue has been resolved BUT STILL THEY ARE THE TWATS WHY TF DID THEY NOT LET HIM BUILD THE BLOODY RESTAURANT AND MAKE A ROAD ON HIS OWN LAND SORRY THAT THIS IS SO LONG BUT I NEEDED TO RANT OH AND ALSO THAT LAWYER WAS SO FRIKIN ANNOYING. AAAAAAAAA
Load More Replies...There is so much going on here. Chadlington. Diddly Tw@t farm shop. Diversion. ROTFLMAO!!!
Looks like the road is a Chad diddling his tw... no, wait, that doesn't work.
I once came across a road sign that said that the road was semi-permanently deactivated.
I've seen those on Old Route 66, where the road is no longer maintained (and is pretty rough in some places as a result) but is still needed to access farm fields and such.
Load More Replies...They are probably working on a waterline and need to reaccess under the area, but need to keep it covered and safe while waiting for parts or something.
Load More Replies...Bring back the days when UK politics news was just Ed Milliband eating a bacon sandwich a bit oddly.
Politicians come and go but the love and need for tomatoes is permanent.
That and the fact that it's more profitable to sell tomatoes to the whole EU rather than to Britain. Apparently the sunlit uplands aren't *so* sunlit that you can grow tomatoes in them
Load More Replies...Tomatoes are better from your own garden. Don't know about your idiot politicians.
i think i might be able to eat a baby, but not under 30 minutes, sorry. can i get it to go?
Sir, that chair chewed on my leg for a good 40 minutes. Do you have any hot sauce?
I only eat vegan, free range, homeschooled, gluten, lactose and dairy free kids with blond hair and I’ll take my time thanks
never been to a place where you could eat the customers.. must be Hannibal Lecter s favorate!
Anything for the vegetarians? Or do you have beans as customers too?
Toilets, holy water and a fire exit all in one. It’s like the cloaca of church hallways!
Depending on what you ate the night before, you might NEED the holy water after using the toilets!
L.. is for the way you art at me. O.. is for the only downtown is see. V.. is very, very, extra-river-nary. E.. is culinary more than anyone that you adore can.
If you zoom in on the text at the bottom it is a "sculpture" and they encourage you to share photos of it to promote Virginia.
Sure, but I've been to Fredericksburg, and this sign fits.
Load More Replies...This is in Fredericksburg, VA. Virginia has a slogan "Virginia is for Lovers" and all through out the state, local artists are commissioned to decorate the word "Love". The sign is explaining the artists decorative representation for each letter. It is not a mnemonic.
Thanks for explaining! If anyone else is curious, I looked up the sculpture after reading this: 599dccfa1d...age_-1.jpg
Yeah but then they’d just crawl out and eat everyone with tears from their own small almond-like eyes
Lovely sentiment but what I would prefer to know is how long my train is delayed for….
My teacher at school was like: Happy international women's day everyone! And then some kid in class went: But it's a half-day!
Common sort of sign in the dementia wing of a rest home. BUT - I'm lol'ing at the fact they apparently needed to print out the reverse sequence for some of the folks visiting the dementia patients. (IRL it's just sad. I did some temp work in a rest home and one of the dementia patients used to beg me to help her get out of the building. You could clearly see that wasn't a good idea.)
I have seen this too working on copier machines in nursing homes the code for the door is often printed in small lettering somewhere on the sign. They do this so you don’t have to bother the staff if they are busy.
Load More Replies...This is probably so drunk people can't get in. I guess. It's the only thing I can think of.
Someone else posted that this is a common sign in dementia facilities.
Load More Replies...It's probably plenty enough to keep dementia patients from wandering away and becoming lost.
Load More Replies...Great NHS signage - saved me from taking a dump in the bin. Close shave.
What you’re seeing at the bottom of the toilet is limescale. It’s comes from hard water and I think it’s made up of calcium in the water. The toilet is not dirty, it’s just needs some limescale remover.
Load More Replies...This is pretty common in the UK in high traffic toilets. The cistern is behind the wall, in theory it's easier to clean...but they never seem to be 🤢
Load More Replies...At all time's, surely.
your grammar is giving me stroke's, please read some book's on correct grammar
I feel compelled to write a customer notice warning others of your terrible grammar. Someone might have a stroke reading this.
Yes, yes it would... the price of a bag of chips these days is crazy
Bothered by the fact that this is a purchased sign and not just handwritten in frustration
Know why it's a zebra? According to some hunting around, to get people to come in and ask "why is it a zebra?"
Apparently the White Lion met the Black Horse from above. This is their kid.
Lion + Horse doesn't = Kid. There has to be a goat involved at some point. 🤭
Load More Replies...It's a restaurant, and the zebra is the white lion's favorite dish.
This might be taking the 'everything's a dildo if you're brave enough' to another level
Interestingly in french " pine"( pronounce peen) is a slang word for a d:ck.
Load More Replies...I live opposite something like this. For most of the year there’s only about an inch or two of water but when it rains it fills quickly and gets very deep and fast moving.
I don't believe there are any signs like this, but I live near a river with a very fast-draining watershed. Normally there's a shallow stream a few feet wide, but in the spring or after a heavy rain it can swell to 10' deep and up to 50' wide.
Load More Replies...Picture purposely taken out of context? I suspect there is a lake or a beach nearby.
Then you E never heard of bog snorkelling then! Actual real life activity! Even has a World Championship!
Load More Replies...Momma had a chicken, Momma had a cow, Dad was proud, he didn't care how...
Load More Replies...Maybe it's vegan imitation chicken and steak. I went to a vegetarian restaurant once and they had "chicken" on the menu. I ordered it and it turned out to be made from seasoned tofu. (I was a bit annoyed at first, but it was very tasty).
I think someone may not have a clear understanding of what vegan is... just a guess though
Okay, but let me take a moment to enjoy the lovely penmanship, spelling errors aside.
It took me way too long to realize what was wrong. It seems that I have neither power nor powder.
Washing the dirrrty laundry of the humankind? Poor God needs working rights asap, he used to work even Sundays...
Tornadoes form under the vacuum cleaner when God cleans the floor up there.
Load More Replies..."and lo, Jesus did reach out and held up the Dynamo liquid and spake to those assembled 'I give unto you these washing instructions that My Father, The Lord God gave unto me: half a cap for a light load and a full cap for heavy soiling or hard water'. Then The Lord spake again to those assembled 'Do not pour directly on the clothing. Add softener into the final rinse'. And those assembled did as they were told unless they were hand washing when a quarter cap per bucket was deemed righteous and seemly in the eyes of The Almighty Father, who was washing"
Yep. Went there on vacation last summer. Great city, but it smelled like smoke and had dog cràp bags everywhere. Had a great time tho
Load More Replies...No, thanks. I'm good. I am up to my eyeballs with cat c**p. Thank goodness for self-scooping litter boxes!
Just want to clarify something here for the non-UK folks like myself. These are ALL different kinds of butter? Dang. That's a lot of freakin' choices.
Those are margarines. We DO have a lot of butter choices though. Living in Scotland, I may be biased but ours is the best!
Load More Replies...Isn't that scene rather controversial given what we now know about it?
Load More Replies...That is the main service that they provide, it's quite prominent on their site, but not every customer will request it and they do laddered clearing too. It's not wrong, they can't just go back to the office and unhook the ladders for each ladderless appointment.
Judging by the Bitsa Wispa, this is from the UK. In the UK, there are NO artificial colours or flavours in any of these products. Went out of the way to look up the Haribos - this applies to the UK Haribos of both Tangfastics and Starmix. This doesn't apply to American ones, but these are not American, tey are UK, the sign is correct.
Every single thing that's ever had a human hand put to it is artificial, that's literally the meaning of "artifice," hence even your organic hand-crafted gourmet charcuteries are artificial as well as artisanal.
It's referring to the items on the ingredients list. That is what it means in food manufacturing, and is very much common knowledge.
Load More Replies..."Artificial : made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural" NOTHING, huh ?
None of the ingredients are made or produced by human beings, but have come from natural sources. That is true of the ingredients in all of these products in the country they ae being sold in.
Load More Replies...Cultural appropriation at its finest.
They’re just like regular tacos, except smaller, and more condescending.
So I googled. This is apparently an actual thing. It could ALSO be "cultural appropriation" (like I care) but it isn't just this one shop. From the web: "A French tacos or matelas is a fast food dish which usually consists of a flour tortilla grilled and folded around a filling of French fries, cheese, and meat, among other deli ingredients"
I definitely need that sticker slapped on my chest right now, but did anyone else wonder about that missing ear? Assuming it's a similar shape as the other one, I just hope someone didn't damage themselves :-O
Thought it was a white chocolate Easter candy. Aways bit the ears first
Opportunity to crochet an ear and make it floppy, then it's super cute!
They look like sliding doors. Put your hand on the raised piece of wood next to the glass and pull the doors apart.
Ah, the Museo dell'Altro e dell'Altrove di Metropoliz. It's an art gallery and squat in Italy with over 300 art pieces and murals maintained by the people who live there. Yes, the FART sign is one of the art installations.
Is that why I'm seeing it as 'F' ART instead?
Load More Replies...In Danish fart means speed. Maybe this was taken in a Scandinavian country?
This is equally funny to both Americans and Brits, but for slightly different reasons. Lol
For my fellow Americans, this means something different than you may have thought initially. Think more like how tweetie bird talks about cats
Tittybottle Park is in the next town, but this one does have Busty Bank.
Load More Replies...Genuinely can't work out what it's meant to say though (I know it's a typo, but was the word they were trying to write?)
It’s a*n*a*l, as in the glands under a dog’s tail. They produce a very stinky smelling fluid and are “self cleaning “ in many dogs, but in some dogs they have to be manually expressed by a vet or groomer. It’s a nasty job and,no, they aren’t going to do it for free 😂
Load More Replies...It's a dog groomers. They aren't offering free a**l gland expressing, which people must be asking for a lot. (No joke, dogs do need that done for them)
It probably does say "A**l" and goes on to say "Gland expressing". An unsavory requirement for some pets.
See mine and Greymom's comments further up
Load More Replies...Welcome to the UK, sometimes it's cheaper to pay the fine than the ticket 😂
This is an interesting one - Britannia Parking Exeter Road Bournemouth was intended as a temporary car park, though it got a contract extension back in 2019. This sign is either something that was put together by a protester (the site is protested due to not being considered safe), was put up while work was being done on the site, or was put up when their contract was running out back in 2019.
I assumed that should have read "St Pancras", then I googled it and found it was a deliberate joke
Or St. Pancreas, the place you go to get discount organs.
Load More Replies...Pancake day in the UK, we are jokers over here, absolute banter that
Use the service then tell them to add the $499 to their bankruptcy paperwork
They only caught one. I have nine hipsters wearing tablecloths and an idea for a great afternoon...
Load More Replies...Atheists wouldn't bother to hunt Jesus because they don't believe in his existance 😉
Load More Replies...In my experience… this is typical DHL service. Not odd at all!
Load More Replies...Not only the spelling error but they also have the unnecessary and incorrectly used quotation marks.
Unless they're quoting someone. Like their little kid pronounced it wrong but they thought it was cute and decided to name the dish after what the kid called it.
Load More Replies...Nobody mentioned the Berries tart. Should it be Berries, tart, or Berry Tart or Tart Berries, or something else?
Ok but I can understand this. There was a store by me and the pathway outside got insanely slippery when it rained; I personally slipped and fell. So as ridiculous as it seems, there can be a good valid reason.
Spag bowl is a common saying in the UK, don't understand what's wrong with this
Spag bol is common. Spag bowl is possibly limited to this sign and you.
Load More Replies...Should read "spag bol", a common abbreviation of "spaghetti bolognese".
Load More Replies...And I hereby introduce you to the french language, making everything even more confusing
Load More Replies...It does work if you think about it. Say product was originally £100. 75% off is now £25. 30% off that means it's now £17.50
30% of the remaining 15%, so up to 79.5% off. Was this exact wording not widely taught? It was a specific point made in our PSHE classes.
"up to" is the sale sign equivalent of when someone pretends they are going to shake your hand but then when you extend yours they jerk their hand up and brush their hair or something to leave you hanging. Bonus points for when they have "STORE WIDE!" in big letters along with "up to" in really tiny letters.
Monty Python made this point in one of their books. "Increase your sexual attractiveness by up to any number you like, provided you realise this is a meaningless promise because the phrase 'up to' clearly includes the number zero."
Load More Replies...The button is usually someplace accessible to wheelchair users.
indeed, in hospitals they are all on the side, or along the hallway.
Load More Replies...Morning Glory is british slang for an erection you get in the morning when you wake up. So to see that slang next to "pre-school" is what's wrong.
Load More Replies...I'll just take the soup, thanks.
I'm going to guess that's a font error, as "sarnie" is a slang term for a sandwich.
maybe font error for sammie? slang for sandwich in North America. Well I'm in Canada so maybe just here? idk. lol
First person to say "nine past thirteen" gets a slap...
Load More Replies...Sure, does take a long time to open, I wonder what the closing times are?
I could be wrong but those look like liquor bottles behind the sign, and the blue things at the bottom of the sign look like pills.
Load More Replies...They are not pills they are tokens. You are given one when you purchase something (probably a minimum amount to qualify) and then you can take your token to some boxes and choose the charity box you'd like to support by inserting your token.
Obligatory Dr. WHO reference (sorry, I bet you get that a lot!) :)
Load More Replies...I see that Jeremy Clarkson got the last word in obliging the council to create a cheeky sign. Interesting that the last word describes him perfectly.
Obligatory Dr. WHO reference (sorry, I bet you get that a lot!) :)
Load More Replies...I see that Jeremy Clarkson got the last word in obliging the council to create a cheeky sign. Interesting that the last word describes him perfectly.
