Re:Stop Spreading Terror! (Score 3, Interesting)

Part of the problem is that the marketing company's lite-brite boxes were unprofessionally made. There are wires and batteries hanging out the side; it has that look and feel of "bombs" you see in movies (like the ones with the stupid "I'll let you know when I'm going to blow up" 7-segment LED display countdown)... and if bombs look like that in movies, then they *must* look like that in real life, right? If they had just made their little LED boxes to have the same size, shape, color, etc. of the other normal traffic signs/signals, that is do a professional job, then at worst people would have just thought that someone had hacked an existing sign (it's not like most people can precisely remember the exact number of signs/signals at every bridge, overpass, etc. they drive past on the way to work).

Those signs totally look like some crap that some middle schoolers would throw together at the last minute for a "science" project (no offense intended to you middle schoolers out there who read /.; I should perhaps have said average or typical middle schoolers).