An important roadside warning

30 April 2010 in Photography, Sydney by Stilgherrian | 10 comments

This illuminated roadside sign machine thing was seen on Sydenham Road, Marrickville, on 26 April 2010. I think there’s an important message here for all of us. Click to embiggen.

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MikeFitz on 30 April 2010 at 6:58 pm

How long before Plod comes around?
Was this photo taken with your camera, sir?
Would you mind showing us the camera’s memory card?

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Sylvano on 30 April 2010 at 7:12 pm

How fucking funny! Love it.

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Zombie_Plan on 30 April 2010 at 7:27 pm

Ah yeah, the amount of times I have forgotten to put my memory card in both my playstation and camera are infinite. I’m glad the powers that be are there to help remind us.

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Shovel on 30 April 2010 at 9:39 pm

Despite living 1100km from this sign, I drove past it on the 27th of April — it still displayed the same message…!

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Yewenyi on 01 May 2010 at 3:41 am

I hate it when I leave my memory card behind too. But it would be worse if I’d lost it.

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Stilgherrian on 01 May 2010 at 8:23 am

@MikeFitz: Oh well played, Sir!

@Shovel: I’m hardly surprised. These signs tend to be put in place and then not checked until they know the batteries will be running low — oh hang on, they’re solar-powered — or they need to be moved to their next job. But something still puzzles me. Surely after setting up one of these you’d check what the sign is actually saying before leaving. So how does it then get into the “Insert Memory Card” state?

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1. BernieTB on 01 May 2010 at 12:15 pm
  
  @Stilgherrian – I’m guessing at some point between the sign being placed there and you going post it, something’s probably broken inside it and it’s stopped reading the card properly.
  
  Of course, that’s too sensible an answer for this discussion.
  
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josh909 on 04 June 2010 at 10:30 pm

It’s still there. Currently investigating how to hack it to say something more creative.

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Stilgherrian on 05 June 2010 at 11:15 am

@josh909: These instructions are for a different model of sign, but the default password is DOTS for that model, and it’s easy enough to reset even if they’ve changed the password. You’ll need bolt cutters to deal with the padlock.

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