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“A warning sign is the legacy of a poor sap’s misfortune.”

That could be a Mark Twain quote, but it’s not. We completely fabricated it to make this point: Some warning signs wouldn’t exist without the cautionary tales that inspired them.

We’re hoping that’s not the case with all of the following signs, because some of these depict very grim dangers lurking in the most unexpected of places. If there was a real-life inspiration for the sign, try not to worry about the same misfortune happening to you – just be glad you weren’t the poor sap.

The croc awaits.

If you hear a clang, make a boomerang.

All the ways one can plunge into a fathomless hole in the ground.

Credit: FlyinRoo, Flickr

Can you pass this sign reading challenge?

We need more of these.

Sound advice that also applies to bears, or anything that is both hungry and faster than you.

Those “objects” just might be explosive.
Credit: Paul Heaberlin, Flickr

They were warned.

Thank goodness for fences, or this might be an epidemic.

As if invisible cows weren’t enough to worry about, there are the cliff-diving variety as well.

Minimum maintenance, indeed.

A municipal government gets real with its directional signage.
Credit: Erin Erickson, Pinterest

This town is cracking down on the rampant flatbed trafficking of elephants.

Laugh now, but if we were making cats glow in the dark 14 years ago, someone out there can genetically engineer a man-carrying mosquito.
Credit: defensivedriving.org

14 Unusual Warning Signs You Won’t Find in Your Neighborhood

14 Unusual Warning Signs You Won’t Find in Your Neighborhood

“A warning sign is the legacy of a poor sap’s misfortune.”

That could be a Mark Twain quote, but it’s not. We completely fabricated it to make this point: Some warning signs wouldn’t exist without the cautionary tales that inspired them.

We’re hoping that’s not the case with all of the following signs, because some of these depict very grim dangers lurking in the most unexpected of places. If there was a real-life inspiration for the sign, try not to worry about the same misfortune happening to you – just be glad you weren’t the poor sap.