A truck hit it while backing up. I've heard in the past that "Speed Kills". never heard of it humping before Stupid kids ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ somebody's lacking for content zzzzzzzzzzzzzz Some college kids tried to steal the sign so they could add to their collection in their frat and they gave up when it wouldn't come off. It got bent in the process. Someone parked there, saw the sign and tried to pull it off to continue being parked there. Kinda awkard way of pulling it off though. You probably did it Drunken ruffians showing their 'strength'. Someone very strong really needed to park there but didn't have any tools. The sign displeased a motorist, who then performed a 'jump 'n' thump'. It is autumn. The "no Parking" leav is rolling up because it drys out. Soon the sign will drop it, to better survive a hard winter. knito@knito.de It was pulled on by a team of strong men. What I would like to know is what the fluro patch on the back of the yellow sign is! Some college kid wanted the sign for their dorm room wall, but could not get it loose. Frazier A Transformer began to fold the sign into a "paper airplane" until discovering that he could not rip it off the post. drunken vandels Tall, strong guy slapped the sidewalk side, truck hit the street side. Before the bigger sighn was put on the pole had fallen twice, once in both dirctions beending the bottom corners on the No Parking sign. lol speed humps? In my day, we called those "quickies." Teen wants to steal sign for his room, teen doesn't have foresight to bring a wrench so he improvises and it doesn't work. Smarmy internet elitists bent it so that you would put it on your site and then they could complain about your content. Strong wind. Random vandalizm Punk kids with hammers? Somebody got frustrated because your city calls them "speed HUMPS" Two tall, stupid people were walking under it and hit it at the same time. ??? Bored teenagers bent the sign. Somebody tried speed-humping it? You should see what happened to the humper. Well the sign says Speed Humps. I take that to mean that if you need a quickie you can just hump the pole, but you have to follow the speed limit. If you hump too fast you slide up the pole with every thrust and then hit your head on the no parking sign which explains why it is bent. They need to fix the sign because you don't want to park next to people humping a pole, or maybe you do. kids bent it someone hit it with a baseball bat? Hulk sneeze big. Someone tried to steal it. Personally, I'd rather have a sign offering speed humps. If it's seven feet off the ground how'd you get the straight-on pics, tall guy? Someone wanted to bend it up so it couldn't be seen so they could park there. Or triedto remove it instead of just bending it. some drunk bent it. someone tried to pry it off Someone (or multiple someones) bent it by hand. When I was a kid, the teenage boys of the neighborhood used to do this to the signs on our block. "I know how we can bring the man down. We could bend his precious no parking signs!" Hilarious. speed humps.... hahaha. i've never heard anyone call them speed humps before ha...humps. obviously a worm hole Hulk MAD. Hulk SMASH. Hulk can park wherever he wants. strong winds? lol Someone selling Herbalife was trying to make room for their sign. During a street festival the party-goers couldn't find a beer bong, so fashioned them from nearby items. The one made out of the VW Golf was way better. I dunno... Ask Veronica Mars! snow plows hit tHis is getting boring. CAn you think of someting else to do? Baseball bats and hooligans. that damn golden bear Tall bums bent the sign to funnel rainwater. someone was obviously trying to fold the sign like a sheet of paper into an airplane shape, but forgot/didn't realize the sign was bolted to the pole. No obvious scratches on the brushed aluminum side. Indications of a relatively slow bending motion (curvature throughout the sign). My bet is vandalism by someone tall. If it's located outside a bar or near a bus stop the likelihood goes up by a power of two. speed is a regular 007... everyone knows that speed kills and now we see that speed humps too... Act of gawd. Someone needed a beer funnel. OH OH, I know what you can do for the Detective Challenge #14. Find out what happened to the wit that used to exist on this site!!!!! That would be a tough one! . No idea, dude. Perhaps the corners were bent up to access the nuts on the u-bolt. Looks like something was replaced, as there are apparently superfluous mounting brackets in the same area. Some thug pushin' at it jesus ? Drunk people, or somebody trying to steal a bike or a newspaper box. Some tried to steal the sign and managed to bend it without getting it off the pole. Man gets towed, man returns to the scene of the crime with large, no parking sign bending machine. Open and shut case! :) -Jonathan L. Houston, TX Someone was using the sign as a funnel to measure the average amount of rainfall in the vicinity of that sign. Easy One....Hoodlums bent the sign up A car hit the speed humps much faster than the posted 15mph and flew into the corner of the sign. Repeat for second corner. Someone bent the sign in an attempt to remove it and score some free parking. Since the sign is in front of a bank, the bent corners are obviously part of an elaborate ruse to rob the bank and hide the money (Ocean's Eleven style). I would guess that a basketball player just shot at someone outside a strip club and was running from the coppers and he ran into the pole...arms stretched out forward, he smashed both sides of the sign with his arms....thats the only LOGICAL solution.. Wind. Someone was trying to steal it You bashed it on both sides with a baseball bat so you could create stupid detective photos. just a theory. Wind I bent it with some pliers to try and get it on Cockeyed.com - and hey, it worked! sign was hit from the side, smashing into the brick building. it was originally lower. it was raised up, new fasneners were applied and the speed hump sign was also subsequently added. Hooligans attempted to rip the sign from its bolt in order to steal it, but gave up once they realized leverage was working against them! I know because I've done the same thing to signs before. Bear hug? aloasfdl people came by and bent it while walking by some jerk showing off his 1337 strength aliens. it's the only logical explanation. vandalism Two rather tall gentlemen, while having a race upon shetland ponies, were bolting down the side walk. Both men were so enthralled with the competitive spirit of the other they failed to see the pole. Obviously, they both hit the sign with their helmets which caused both corners to bend up. Now I didn't witness this race, but it's the most feasible possibility. Punk kids. They were probably doing weed. This is obviously where prostitutes who are high on crank or meth stand to attract customers, hence the sign advertising "speed humps". Some John, in a fit of rage over false advertising tried to tear down the sign when his "date" was too slow. Looks to me like it was bent by hand, probably just a guy showing off his guyness. vandals bent it Two college students with near super human strength bent the sign walking back to their apartment/dorm room after a night of Ker-Plunk and listening to Neil Sedaka records. The crushed car from #6 lost control while traversing a speed hump at a high rate of speed, got airborne, broke off the pole, and bent the sign. The city workers replaced the pole, but didn't have a new sign, so they reinstalled the bent sign until a new sign can be shipped in. Some person passed the sign and pulled a little of the sign in memory of a friend who used to steal signs with them. He told someone about doing and they continued it. It began a tradition to bend the sign more and more each anniversary of his death. Clearly the speed humps did it. Judging from the angle the sign was bent, they must have been exceeding 15mph. someone flagrantly disobeyed the sign. Some thief tried to steal a bike that was chained to the pole. They tried to lift the bike and off the pole but realized the sign was too wide and the chain wouldn't slip over it, so they bent it in an attempt to make it fit. This all happened before the speed hump sign was screwed on top. sign was in the way of another nba brawl i think if you don't feel you can fully dedicate yourself to the website anymore you should just end it and stop doing things like this. i've loved you for years but maybe it's time for you to just deal with your life and not feel obligated at doing this still, or maybe start a new project A miscreant decided to bend the edges? you know those prank videos where a guy pretends to run into a street sign? well one fellow probably got carried away...twice... Distortion in the time space continuum. ad Vandals tried (and failed) to steal it. -Josh. Again. meth dem dam niggers NOBODY KNOWS. Somebody obviously wanted to fill a pipe bowl without losing any of the precious powder, excuse me - tobacco, that he wanted to smoke. He needed a funnel very badly, so he made one from the nearest material at hand. Somebody was trying to steal it but it was bolted on too tightly. no clue Damn Teens!!! vandals happened. A man was sent flying through the air and hit the sign in between his legs during a running of the bulls on that very street Kids tried to steal it. wind Someone WAS going to fold over the top corners of the sign so that it simply read, "PARKING" to the unconcerned driver! But they couldn't for the same reason the speed humps sign is untouched: they were just too short to reach! - Rob, Scotland. The street-side of the sign was bent by a utility truck that was not quite tall enough to affect the "Speed Humps 15 mph" sigh. Later, a gorilla wearing a top-hat mentioned the sign to The Incredible Hulk, who proceeded to bend the other side of the sign so that it matched. i have no idea While watching the speed humping two guys walked right into the sign one on each side bending back the corners. wind Unintelligent teenagers tried to steal it. Intelligent teens would have brought a Sawzall. A drunk guy wanted to steal it, and got as far as yanking on it and bending it before losing interest and stumbling down the street! twas a missle Heat! Either a really hot day or a car accident near it letting off smoke to melt it and make it bend! well the sign above it says speed humps, perhaps someone went a little to fast? -Donnie teenage kleptomaniac big foot Superman was folding a "paper airplane" Someone was unsuccessful in stealing the sign. You got to have the right tools to get the job done. Someone wanted to remove the sign and folded both edges of the sign to access the 2 bolts on the lower collar holding the sign to the post (shown in the first picture). A teenager with a baseball bat! someone was trying really hard to make a "paper" airplane Vandalism shnevius says: o yah shnevius says: me and tabby did that some idiot ran into it... Punk kids! jk Someone wanted to speed hump, but could only reach the "no parking" sign. Space monkeys. could just be weird random vandalism Some tall drunken bastard got upset that his car was towed from a no parking sign and pushed up on the sign with both hands on each corner of the sign. With his superior strength from the booze he was able to plastically deform the sign upwards at each corner. It's an advertisement for Shrinky Dinks. New signs are posted in spring and the fun begins when Sacramento's summer temperature hits 100. This particular sign must have been placed in the shade of a tree, thus accounting for its half-shrinky condition. I like the old Cockeyed.com much better Probably just the wind .... but it could be the work of the cantankerous Golden Bear of California probably some drunk or homeless people got bored and decided to play superman. it was the leprachauns I gaint U shaped head hit it. theif was pissed off he forgot to bring a socket wrench. The sasquatch strikes again! punk kids happened Sign-folding contest. You lose. a giant's thighs must have bent the sign whist he was humping it. The doublemint twins weren't watching where they were cycling. -Helena Damned vandals! It was accidentally smacked by the rare 7-foot u-shaped head monster. I saw Shaquille O'Neal and Yao Ming having a rollerblade race down that sidewalk. They were so focused, they didn't realize they hit the sign for about 10 minutes after it happened. I have no idea. I give. Vandals. Just punks bending the corners because they could. I think this was done by a human. A vehicle couldn't hit it on both sides without taking the whole thing out. I think this is some young male testosterone stuff. Bent by hand. Somebody tried to pry the sign off the pole but got tired before the sign come off. Aliens. Not the illegal kind. Splatman's Theory: 2 tall guys were walking side-by-side (OK, so we're talking best friends with altitude), passed either side of the pole while their heads struck the sign while that were doing a "lean together (toward one another) and pass the pole" sorta thing. Thay just underestimated the sign's height or their own. Their sheer momentum allowed them to keep on walking w/o slowing down enuff to realize wut'z goin on. 12/22/06 22:09 PST teenage sign theives My guess is that someone wanted to park really badly, so they tried to pry it off with some sort of tool. (a crowbar? a wrench?) They failed, though, but gave a noble effort. Damned kids. A pair of 7 foot tall twins was walking along side each other deeply engrossed in a conversation about the politics of religion when they ran into each corner of the sign. Unfortunately, when they were born, they were Siamese attached at the forehead and when they were separated, they were issued military grade aluminum foreheads. As fate would have it, the simultaneous strike on the sign was too much for it to bear and the TEAM ATTACK landed for a CRITICAL HIT doing double damage. Thus the sign was bent. The sign retreated and the twins got 9 gold and 24 Experience Points. vandals! Narkonman arrived?! judging from the remains of the broken off sign,I think someone wants to park for free at the free store. Someone backed a pickup truck to the reverse side, right up to the pole almost. Then they got out and dropped the tail gate and stood on it. First, they place TWO hands on one lower corner and thrust it inwards (in relationship to the face of the sign). The process is repeated on the other side. Then they simply left! TheChronicOne@WMconnect.com Someone attempted to steal the no parking sign punk ass kids those meddling kids idk, but i like the 'speed humps' sign.. Aerodynamic hooligans. It was raining, and someone wanted to fill their water bottle, so they bent the sign to serve as a funnel. Someone bent it for fun. Punk kids! You took to it with a mallet. pranks? Bears. Mainly. Someone, or some ones tried (possibly while intoxicated) to rip the sign down. Having no tools, and finding the sign far more durable than they thought, they left. Wind Someone tried to steal the sign and had to pry up the corners to get to the bolts. Once they realized how rigid the sign is, it occurred to them that it would be near impossible to get it back to its original flatness and they abandoned the idea of stealing it. Or they just couldn't get the bolts loose and scrapped the whole idea. Or, one other scenario is that they at first thought they had to loosen the bolts on the back side of the sign and bent up the corners to get at them, and then realized that there are two bolts on the front of the sign, and decided to find another, less mangled sign to steal. Whatever happened, I think it involved the concept of theft of the sign. Vandals... although its heavy gauge aluminium, it is not beyond the strength limits of a dtring guy to bend it. Theory # 1 The sign is in the way of a delivery truck on its route. The driver bent the corners to make it easier to load and unload bulky items up and down the ramp on the truck with a dolly. # 2 Careless dilevery driver occasionally backs into sign. By the way, Please do not park your crappy Acura next to my vintage Monte Carlo, Nicks,Door dings and exposure to leaking fluids will reduce it's value. firstgenerationmontecarlo.blogspot.com teenagers There are no marks on the post. It was hoodlums! crazy kids bent it! They were attacked by Michael Moores inflated and unjustified ego Yao Ming hit his head on it. Twice. It was bent by powerful flatulence. - JHB I think someone wanted the 'speed hump' sign for prank/stealing reasons, and when they finally approached the target, the task became overwhelming(sign too high, wrong tools, paranoia, etc), and so they took out their frustrations on the bottom of the sign. (provided, they came prepared with some tools to pilfer the speed hump sign.) dunno! well... somebody parked. Lemurs. Or skateboarders. drunken oaf bent it The absence of scrapes on the pole under the sign contraindicates prying, e.g. with a crowbar for theft. It seems more likely then that someone or something was actually pulling/pushing on the aluminum for some reason. The fact that it is bent on both sides of the pole- but that the pole does not show any damage- tells us that it was not some isolated accident, a baseball hitting the sign or otherwise. It is almost impossible that one single event caused both corners of the sign to bend up without harming the pole- two different efforts must have been made. Therefore, a person probably did it intentionally. What was their motive? I can think of two: to steal the sign and to remove the sign. Perhaps someone REALLY wanted to park there, and thought that removing the sign would allow them to do so without being ticketed. Or someone wanted to steal it- but unless they are really bad at what they do or have a fetish for bent signs, they probably would have avoided bending it during the theft. So apparently the guilty party does not care about the sign's wellbeing. For that reason, I lean on the side of someone wanting the sign to disappear. The most likely motivation I can think of is it remove the rule against parking in that particular area- one could want to remove it because it is ugly, but the speed humps sign is also ugly, but unharmed. Therefore, I find that the likely conclusion is that someone tried to remove the sign because they didn't like the city's vendetta against people wanting to park for extended periods of time in that area. Someone tried to peel off the sign and put quite a bit of barehanded force into it. They were stopped by the bolt at the bottom of the sign. Some drunk person bent it? A Cockeyed.com fan decided to bend the sign to create the next Detective Challenge. Rob made some more filler for cockeyed :( John Marcotte farted on it. Gale force winds. fgj Someone tried to steal it. Magneto was having a lazy day. First he got tired of looking for a parking spot, then he was too unmotivated to completely destroy the no parking sign. That's why he'll never be a good guy. It's a question of drive and desire. I had to work in the morning, when all the presents are supposed to be unwrapped. Bo and Luke Duke hit the speed humps at too quick a speed and bent one corner with the roof of the General Lee. Boss Hogg or that goofy sheriff of his bent the other corner chasing the boys and hitting the speed hump at too quick a speed as well. What other explanation could there be? tsirgw! My guess is a poorly thought-out, feeble attempt to rip the sign off the pole. Either that, or an over-achiving go-go dancer practicing on her way to work. Drunk people like to climb random things and bend them A car couldn't have done it... did someone just hit it maybe? on purpose? Someone wanted to park there and tried to rip the sign down. a circus performer and his girlfriend were riding their matching extra-tall unicycles down the sidewalk and this sign just came out of nowhere! moops! I shouldn't be telling you this, but I fear my life is already in jeopardy. My cover is blown and I need to tell someone the truth. There exists a secret society of rogue dust bunnies that formed from the combination of several sects of dust bunnies during the Swiffer upheaval. There have been vandalisms across the major cities and I can only venture guesses as to why, but I have done some investigating myself and have found several sacrificed members of the dust bunny society in the clear vicinity of broken street lights, cracked sidewalks, etc. It was this work that may cost me my life. I can only wait with my Swiffer pads and hope to fight them off until the next rain. Get out while you can. It's not worth it.