| Some local activists have been playing recently upon the juxtaposition of the boldness of this instruction, its ubiquity and its uniformity of design, having all-weather stickers made up featuring, in appropriate and matching shades of white-letters-on-a-red-background, things that they would like stopped, leading, when applied, to a road sign issuing orders such as the following: STOP
homelessness
Their objections are many and varied - I've never yet seen two signs directing against the same issue - and range in subject from "nobody can disagree with that" (STOP rape, STOP racism, STOP violence against women) to "need to think about for a bit" (STOP selling gold) to the controversial, dogmatic and hyperbolic (STOP working, STOP capitalism, STOP men).
Nothing like a little light reading matter while waiting for traffic to pass. | 
