Is the City of Toronto playing jokes on us?

I saw a red sign on my neighbour's front yard last month... it said something like the resident had to remove the snow within the next 48 hours or they'll be fined. The snow mound was on their property though and it looked like it was there because that was the dumping ground from plowing their walkway. Now that I think about it, I believe the mound of snow was covering a fire hydrant.

Anyway, I think this is probably a play on those signs. Mind you, as that fire hydrant is the closest the house I live in, I'm glad they put up a notice.

Ws don't match, M doesn't match the typeface, the bars of the E are all different lengths, photochop!

It's hard to tell if it's a photochop or a poorly made fake sign.

I'm going with someone pissed that it's still snowing twice a week.

Anyone have a photo of the real "clearance required within 48h" city sign described by Katie above?

@ jc

That rules out no one as the culprit then ;)

At least, The City of Toronto seems to do something for him.

Please, no one call Snow Removal and Operations Management. Your only going to piss my bosses off, and in turn, make me actually work...

I joke. But obviously, this is a just another hit. It's a take on those red tags to clear your sidewalks / snowbanks.
Next week on Toronto blogs, a TTC sticker on a limousine during the strike!

If anything, thats a "poorly made fake sign" as
i'm 95% sure that is not a photoshop/chop..

Look at the lighting of the board..
its consistent a and matches with the scene..
also, look at the center of the sign..
you can see light through it to see the wooden post
with out any distortion effects..

so either thats one ~heck~ of a photoshop job,
or someone had fun with magic markers.

..and yes, there is some digital.. waveyness
through out the sign.. but you have to take in to
account that most digital cameras don't do the
red area of the color spectrum justice.

The thing that gets me though,
is the logo on the top.. it seems official..
so could it be a disgruntled city worker who did this ?

I walk up Camden a couple of times each week, and can confirm that this sign is really there -- I first saw it over a week ago, and meant to go back with my camera to capture it. I didn't look at it closely enough to see how it was made, although I assumed that it was a prank.

These signs normally read :"Snow removal within next 48 hours"
Meant to inform people with cars parked on the street that they had to move their cars, as the snow was going to be hauled away via dump truck.

Yeah, I dunno what in the original post made me think to jump to the photoshop conclusion. It's obviously mostly handwritten.

sigh, my (brainfart) tag didn't show.

look at the typography. its clearly not photoshop or the type would (probably) look better. its clearly hand lettered. Shame on you blogTO for falling for this!

[chrisfarley]Gawd! I'm so STUPID![chrisfarley]

(shame on me for not having inspected this more closely)

The real problem on the roads these days is the multitudinousness of potholes. A huge one on the northeast corner of Jarvis and College blew out one of my car tires Friday night.

This. Cracked. Me. Up. Big. Time.

Complete fake. That sign has been there since the beginning of March - it's right across the street from my business. It will soon be replaced with "Daily, annoying and completely useless construction projects will begin within next 48 days." Seriously, Camden Street sees more jackhammers than Joan Rivers.