anyone else seen these in the greater seattle area?

they look exactly like yield signs - made from fairly thick metal.

I've collected about 25 so far.

Attachment #1, (jpg file)

Wow, is that reflective paint as well? Should be able to do something creative with those signs with some tin snips. The reflective paint I've experienced uses glass beads and is pretty pricey stuff. Good work and have fun!

yes - these guys look exactly like yield signs - reflective paint and all.

it makes me a little nervous when taking them down - since it looks like I'm taking down a valid street sign.

figure I've got about 80 square feet of sheet metal so far. I think it's about 1/10" aluminumum.

If I was still in college, I'd line a bathroom wall or something with em or if our college colors were yellow you could make a cool reflective thing out of them.

As it is the only useful idea for an old fart like me is trimming out street numbers to place on the curb in front of the house or hide in the attic for that rainy day.

I've seen a few of these in the Denver area. They were printed on cardboard (about 10" wide) and placed low to the ground. They didn't last long.

Looks like another spam scam underway.

DenverShark

Hey, great work--those boogers must have cost the spammer a fortune! It must be SO satisfying to be costing him so much by ripping his signs down.

Also, call your State Highway Department. I can guarantee they'd be delighted to prosecute these clowns for putting up signs that look so much like official signs.

Keep up the good work.

Redstone

We had a situation in the DFW area some years ago, where the spammers were using an octagon shaped signs, tie wrapped to the directional signs in the medians.

The signs could well be taken as stop signs if observed from certain angles and not really paying attention.

We called both the city, county and state hiway departments and it wasn't anytime until he signs disappeared.
Best I recall it was within hours of being reported.

A follow up call indicated that the party responsible was conacted and that citations were issued.
No further information was available, but one thing for sure, the signs disappeard like a puff of air in the wind.

Regular street spam is one thing, but messing around with the directional signs is something entirely different.

GW