a New "NO SMOKING" sign...
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a New "NO SMOKING" sign...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/APW...D8FHO7TG4.html
and they are selling them... i'm tempted to buy one...
and they are selling them... i'm tempted to buy one...
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Heheheheheheh.
Good conversation piece, and eventually a fine piece of historical 'art' - especially if one keeps the paperwork to show it's provenance.
Besides, it might look great on a rec room wall - I can think of more than one person, actually, who could use one on their deck, even.
Good conversation piece, and eventually a fine piece of historical 'art' - especially if one keeps the paperwork to show it's provenance.
Besides, it might look great on a rec room wall - I can think of more than one person, actually, who could use one on their deck, even.
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HAHA! …Classic!
The Netherlands are a wonderful country but most tourists would not know that if they never leave Amsterdam. As a matter of fact, it was my least favorite city in NL because of all the stupid Americans wandering around in a drug-induced haze yelling, "We have "X" back home…why do you not have it here?"
Sorry…started ranting there for a minute, but Im better now.
The Netherlands are a wonderful country but most tourists would not know that if they never leave Amsterdam. As a matter of fact, it was my least favorite city in NL because of all the stupid Americans wandering around in a drug-induced haze yelling, "We have "X" back home…why do you not have it here?"
Sorry…started ranting there for a minute, but Im better now.
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Originally Posted by smash
I enjoyed Amsterdam quite a bit. Among other things (of course), the Van Gogh museum, Anne Frank House, and the the acres of tulip gardens outlying the city.
That is a cool sign, though.
That is a cool sign, though.
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Re: a New "NO SMOKING" sign...
Originally Posted by kkawana
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/APWires/headlines/D8FHO7TG4.html
and they are selling them... i'm tempted to buy one...
and they are selling them... i'm tempted to buy one...
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Well, the Seattle Times has hidden the article well, so I grabbed a copy from th AP before it, too, vanishes...
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - If you can't beat em ... joint em?
The City of Amsterdam has begun selling recently introduced "no toking" signs to prevent the official ones from being stolen as collectors items, a spokesman said Friday.
The signs were created as part of an experimental ban on smoking marijuana on the street in "De Baarsjes," one of the city's poorer neighborhoods. The measure, which went into effect Feb. 1, was intended to reduce loitering and petty crime.
"On Wednesday we placed the first sign and it was gone the next morning," said Wim de Graaf. "We put up a new one Thursday and it was taken the same night as well. That's when the idea came to us to just sell them."
The signs show two fingers holding a cone-shaped cigarette, with small white marijuana leaves on a black background _ all enclosed within a red circle.
The city is selling them for ?90 each (around US$110), and plans to donate proceeds to charity.
"We're selling them at not much more than they cost, so we expect profits will be modest," De Graaf said. But he added the city has already had numerous requests for the signs, some from outside the city.
Marijuana is technically illegal in the Netherlands, but police don't bother prosecuting possession of small amounts. It is openly sold in designated cafes known euphemistically as "coffee shops."
But people who smoke weed outside in De Baarsjes risk a ?50 (US$60) fine.
De Graaf said the signs can be ordered via De Baarsje's Web site.
"Now everyone can have his own 'no toking' sign simply by ordering them through the city," the site says in a tongue-in-cheek advertisement.
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On the Net:
http://www.baarsjes.amsterdam.nl
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - If you can't beat em ... joint em?
The City of Amsterdam has begun selling recently introduced "no toking" signs to prevent the official ones from being stolen as collectors items, a spokesman said Friday.
The signs were created as part of an experimental ban on smoking marijuana on the street in "De Baarsjes," one of the city's poorer neighborhoods. The measure, which went into effect Feb. 1, was intended to reduce loitering and petty crime.
"On Wednesday we placed the first sign and it was gone the next morning," said Wim de Graaf. "We put up a new one Thursday and it was taken the same night as well. That's when the idea came to us to just sell them."
The signs show two fingers holding a cone-shaped cigarette, with small white marijuana leaves on a black background _ all enclosed within a red circle.
The city is selling them for ?90 each (around US$110), and plans to donate proceeds to charity.
"We're selling them at not much more than they cost, so we expect profits will be modest," De Graaf said. But he added the city has already had numerous requests for the signs, some from outside the city.
Marijuana is technically illegal in the Netherlands, but police don't bother prosecuting possession of small amounts. It is openly sold in designated cafes known euphemistically as "coffee shops."
But people who smoke weed outside in De Baarsjes risk a ?50 (US$60) fine.
De Graaf said the signs can be ordered via De Baarsje's Web site.
"Now everyone can have his own 'no toking' sign simply by ordering them through the city," the site says in a tongue-in-cheek advertisement.
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On the Net:
http://www.baarsjes.amsterdam.nl
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