Friday Five: Sign Industry News Round-Up

Friday, March 16, 2012 —

In honor of Friday, we are pleased to bring you the top five stories from the sign industry this week. From the dangerous to the downright weird, this is what you should know about signs and related shenanigans:

Yield signs are (surprisingly) there to tell you to yield

Traffic sign key to area wreck Traffic signs do no good unless drivers pay attention to them, as one Wynnewood couple learned earlier this week. One John Thomas Stiffler, 23, decided that he did not, in fact, have to yield at a yield sign — whereupon he caused a crash that landed 86-year-old Leroy Dotson and his wife, the lovely Maxine Dotson, in the hospital. We can provide you traffic signs like the one above, but you have to drive well and carefully for them to work.

Southington official says new signs are worth the price Officials in Southington, Connecticut, similarly agree with the importance of a good sign. Parking Authority Chairman Michael Riccio wants $1,000 worth of parking signs installed at a new shopping center. Signs are, as per the article above, very important to public health and well-being, but luckily, not all parking signs are as expensive.

Suspect in Colchester texting-while-driving crash challenges own comments In an ongoing trial, defendant Emma Vieira, 19, argues that police coerced her into self-implicating testimony regarding an August 7 drive in Vermont. The 19-year-old was texting while driving, allegedly at the same time that her car crashed into pedestrian Debbie Drewniak as she was walking her dog.  And this only another reason why you shouldn’t text and drive.

Dogs are great. Poop is not.

As West Harlem Picks Up, Dog Owners Don’t Speaking of dogs, the New York Times continues to post on a problem spreading throughout New York City: dog poop. As a resident of New York City, this blogger is particularly perturbed at this phenomenon. Clean, people. See the above sign on dog poop. Read it. Love it. Live it.

OSHA to enforce safety rules starting Friday And now to finish up your weekly roundup with your friendly neighborhood OSHA update. Apparently the town of Harrisburg, in Southern Illinois, is suffering from a recent outbreak of tornadoes. Today, OSHA will begin to implement and regulate safety recommendations, to keep workers from falling on the job, during a tornado. Want more? Hear OSHA’s recommendations, in the video above.

– R. Fogel