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Oh, I was going to erect one that was indistinguishable from a real one...

According rumours circulated a few years ago it gets overloaded everytime there is a bunch of people who say "kill the president" on the phone. Writing it in an email or usenet message doesn't help either :)

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They're only stick on letters, numbers, symbols and borders :-)

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If it's indistinguishable from the official version and it appears quietly one dark night it's likely to be a very considerable time before bureaucracy tumbles to the fact that it hasn't been placed there by "some other department." We have a wonderful bus layby here, complete with bus stop sign. It's been there so long that the (plastic-covered) steel post supporting the bus-stop sign rusted so badly the sign fell down. It was promptly replaced. The only problem is that the buses have, since the bus service started in approximately

If you attach your replica to existing legal street furniture and are careful to avoid obstructing sight lines etc. you might avoid litigation.

An existing wall or fence might do.

Highways may require you to remove it but only if they know who was responsible.

Our by-way already had an *unsuitable for motors* sign. With the on-set of navigator technology, it gained an unofficial cul-de-sac sign.

Also, in order to widen a domestic drive, I once quietly moved a street name sign by a few metres. 40 years on, it is still there:-)

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Especially given that (i) there appear to be about 5 or 6 different "departments" involved and (ii) it's been over 3 years since the correspondence started, so they're not exactly speedy.

The problem is apparently that the road we live on is called Wibble Road at one end and Quux Lane at the other, and no-one seems to know where they change over. My wife's suggestion was to signpost the road "Wibble Road leading to Quux Lane" at one end and "Quux Lane leading to Wibble Road" at the other, and not worry about where the changeover is, but this brilliant solution seems to be beyond the comprehension of local Government.

I too live on a road which changes name, apparently arbitrarily, halfway along it. Causes no end of confusion as people simply do not expect it. Also, house numbering suffers a sudden dislocation.