Ok i promised the story:
I walked out of my house, a few years back, to find one of this first sign in my front yard. This happened a lot because I lived on the main thoroughfare through a popular commuter city, between the highway and the train station. My front yard was prime realty for signs ..🧵
So I went out to pick it up, looked down the street and realized they had put these signs all over my neighbors yards. Businesses, residences, everywhere. I was pissed. I HATE these signs and the predatory businesses that use them. I grabbed my magnum sharpie and scrawled on the sign’s blank back 🧵
I decided to teach these fucks a thing or two about marketing. I chose phrases that would inspire someone to call and waste their billable hours, but would not trick innocent people into calling for something that sounded real. So “can we eat your cheese? Not a joke” not “free BJs.” I got to work. 🧵
I changed close to 30 signs. I stopped at the bar and got a good buzz on halfway through. When I was done, a few signs had been stolen, some had been thrown out, but most remained. I wanted people to finally pay attention to these signs that are usually ignored. I had a good laugh and went to bed 🧵
I did however make a post on fb/ig before I crashed out, as many of the signs were inside jokes with friends and I thought they’d laugh
I woke up to a shit ton of notifs/messages, etc. over the next couple of days it was picked up by the local radio station and talked about on air. That was weird 🧵
But then I got an email asking if I would do an interview about the whole thing for the local news. I figured I could do a lil anti capitalist rant, so I agreed. After being an awkward goon in my front yard on camera, the fiasco was mostly over. I had a lot of fun, the sign guy changed his number 🧵
At the end of it all, I never saw another bandit sign on the main drag of that city for the next few years I lived there. I got to inform a lot of people about predatory businesses and pollute signs, and I got to say “free dog milkings” on tv.
