The Week contest: Road Sign - Mar. 19, 2010

Click here for results of last week's contest: D.C. Insult

Results: In light of a Romanian road sign that warns, “Attention! Drunks!” we asked you to come up with a sign warning motorists of a common hazard where you live. You sped in with:

FIRST PRIZE: Prepare to Stop: Road Crew Watching Man at Work

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Irene Minerick, Bandon, OR

Second Place: Since our unemployment rate here exceeds 15 percent: Caution: Men Not Working

Kurt Marquardt, Racine, WI

Third Place: Nothing unusual ahead, but we had money to spend and the sign company charged us by the letter. This sign was paid for by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act

Ashley Ryan, Catonsville, MD

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Last Coffee for Six Blocks

Bill Muse, Seattle

Yield to Speeding Toyotas

Gary Daniels, National City, CA

DANGER! Distracted Driving Kills. Text “ALERT” to Local Police to Report Distracted Drivers

Bethany Wheeling, Finksburg, MD

Attention: Wandering Tourists

Megan Resnik, Estrada Camarillo, CA

Attention: Your kids are Being Bad in the Backseat

Kristy Rimwood, Owings Mills, MD

Traffic Circle Coming Up. Have Fun

Bryan McGrath, Wakefield, MA

Danger: Moms in SUVs on Cell Phone

Adam Roslovic, New Albany, OH

Lobbyist Crossing (Sign shows silhouette of guy carrying moneybags)

Jeffrey Contompasis, Ashburn, VA

Next 2 Miles: Wall Street Executives Crossing No Speed Limit

Jim Halverson, Westchester County, NY

Warning: Local Drivers Waiting for Public-Option Cataract Surgery. Drive with care!

Ernest Delmoe, Peoria, AZ

I live in Maui, hence: Please Don't Feed the Stoned Surfers

John Stefanic, Haiku, HI

I live in the golf capitol of the USA, hence: Warning: Angry Retired Republicans with Clubs.

Marc Riggsbee, Pinehurst, NC

I live in Berkeley, hence: (Picture of a helmeted bicyclist accosting a motorist) Attention: Explosive Self-Righteousness

Brian Masselink, Berkeley, CA

Prius Unintended Acceleration Lane Only

Ed Markarian, Santa Monica CA

I live in Harvard Square, hence: Caution: Vocabularies May Be Larger than They Appear

Marianne Crane, Cambridge, MA

I live near Moose, Wyoming, hence: Caution: Large, Eponymous Mammals Crossing

Gregory Zeigler, Jackson, WY

Prepare to Dodge Misaligned Traffic Cones

Tom K. Cook, Suwanee, GA

Do not steal this sign to hang in your bedroom

Darcie Burrell, Eugene, OR

CAUTION: People in this area drive like YOU!

Don Midway, Bethlehem, PA