Stick Figures in Peril

[anghara]

You can view these as a slide show, by clicking on the top right of this page. Some of them are laugh-out-loud funny, they range from the bizarre to a true jaw-dropping hyper-WTF-factor, some of them are just... Japanese.

I don't know if I should be vaguely disturbed at the apparent lemming-like penchant of stick figure people to fall off the edges of things, or to simply nod sagely when little more than a stick-hand and a ski-pole are visible in a mound of burying avalanche-like stuff and a sign that announces "Nordic Ski Trail Ends Here" (you don't say...). Oh, and bicycles are lethal, too, apparently (just what on God's Green Earth is a "hazardous bridge", anyway?)

There are a startling number of these things.

I don't know I should be starting to get really worried, here.

Comments

[guinwhyte.livejournal.com]

That "hazardous bridge" sign looks like one from Sabino Canyon (for all I know, it might be). There are no railings, the bridges over the creek are basically concrete-and-rock structures with a little bit of a lip (6-8 inches, maybe -- you can see one here, so it's actually pretty easy to fall (or bike) off of and get hurt. I guess that's the definition of "hazardous bridge."

I will admit, some of those signs made me laugh a whole lot louder than they should have...

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

I was particularly enamoured of the one now in my icon. I have to ask a friend what the original text really means, because I'm pretty sure that translation must be wrong.