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While out for a bike ride this afternoon I removed this proselytizing sign from the pedestrian bridge which parallels 22 Mile Road as it crosses M-53. I’ve seen tens of similar signs bearing some religious message all throughout the Detroit area. Each is somewhat poorly constructed and tied with a messy knot of white yarn to the cyclone fencing over bridges. I did my best to rip the sign and yarn down, but as a few knots and tassels remained I’ll have to go back another day with a knife and properly remove those bits.
Being made of poster board with stenciled and filled lettering under two layers of what appears to be contact paper lamination these signs would likely have lasted a few months then torn off in the wind. The holes in the corners were also punched through the lamination. I can only imagine how bad these would look after weather has done its thing and they are left dangling in the breeze. Then again, this person who wants to shove their rhetoric in everyone’s face must not have much concern for the community or environment, much less the interests of others.
We don’t get Godbothering signs like that in the UK. Instead people like to print out their prattle on A4 sheets and glue them to bridges. It’s not uncommon to drive down motorways and see ‘GOURANJA’ stuck to a bridge – one letter per A4 sheet.
It’s either an attempt by the Hare Krishna types to spread their weirdness, or someone who has played GTA and has a sense of humour.
The railway bridge in town has ‘All your base’ written on it :)