"Available" road signs

[question everything]

We were traveling in Northern Wisconsin and saw many road signs with fresh signs saying: "AVAILABLE" and, in one case "OOPS, you've just missed a road sign." And, for some reason, these signs highlighted the recession more than all the stats on the news. (That is, un-Jackson news; on the road, TV news are the only source).

On the other hand, looking at the map of all the road construction in Wisconsin - and they are everywhere - I am hoping that most of these at least provide jobs to many.

[Warren DeMontague]

1. I wonder if the "Bong Rec Area" sign is still there.

We used to have a lot of laughs over that, back in High School.

[SCantiGOP]

2. the "available' signs

might be where those public service groups agree to clean litter on a stretch of highway and they post a sign identifying them.
I remember years ago the KKK asked to be on one in Alabama. The state highway department turned them down, and they were thinking of suing. Chris Rock said they should let them do it. He said he knew people in Chicago that would save their trash for weeks just to drive down to their stretch of road and dump it on the side.

[DCKit]

3. I'd heard they got it, then the state had the highway named after a black civil rights hero.

But that may have been another instance.

[question everything]

4. Interesting point

however, since these were in rural Wisconsin, I don't think that any group would have had the funds.