Someone keeps stealing road signs along some of America's highways . As the comedians say, we should find that guy and stop him. Rim shot. The signs of choice are those with 666 somewhere on them--the sign (or "mark") of the beast. It happens along the Garden State Parkway at mile marker 66.6. It happens along the New Jersey Turnpike elsewhere, and along other roads with a 666 somewhere on the route, but apparently not along Pennsylvania's Route 666, according to this MSNBC.com story (although now maybe someone will get a bright idea to start thieving). Where the 666s end (early Christian settlements) doesn't seem to have stopped the state from numbering the highway as it did, though.
The solution, say officials, is to renumber the roadway as something less symbolic, like 665, or 491. Ah, the power of semiotics. And law.
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