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Road signs are messengers that help us find where we want to go, and get us there safely. But sometimes, what they have to say gets lost in translation.

Check out our gallery of mindlessly miscommunicated, unintentionally uproarious and sneakily subverted road signs.

Make up your mind…

…near Washington D.C. (USA)

Can’t touch this… …in Missouri (USA)

Warning – businessmen in a hurry…

…in Kerala (India)

Hula hooping zone……somewhere in the USA

Time to pull over…

…near Toronto (Canada)

Caution – Spring Break…

…in Miami (USA)

Sat nav fail…

…in Virginia (USA)

Keep this on the DL, yeah…

…in Essex (UK)

Dead, er, end???

…in Normandy (France)

This doesn’t bode well…

…in Indiana (USA)

Written by insider city guide series Hg2 | A Hedonist’s guide to…

(Images: seanmasn, andryone, 20after4, Christian Haugen, ktheory, cobblucas, miz_ginevra, celebdu, Neil Rickards, Môsieur J. [version 7.1.2], fireflythegreat)

About the author

Brett AckroydBrett hopes to one day reach the shores of far-flung Tristan da Cunha, the most remote of all the inhabited archipelagos on Earth…as to what he’ll do when he gets there, he hasn’t a clue. Over the last 10 years, London, New York, Cape Town and Pondicherry have all proudly been referred to as home. Now it’s Copenhagen’s turn, where he lends his travel expertise to momondo.com.

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