‘Mile 420’ marker replaced in Colorado after repeated thefts from pot fans (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKTRZ7AYVl5kBRbUUlODCNvbnp2IW28jWcvKiPfNmTVQs66ObsavJTBJQYxWiLTRMLC7pjtzXKg2d2eKYwkS8cjMOj83mYKqtWakg8GkjMz3RMxdVEtvfF2JIb7M5pePkMpJiZhW81qDQ/s1600/f2eb4502-2b13-4af6-9d46-b852ea6a5c8f_419-sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKTRZ7AYVl5kBRbUUlODCNvbnp2IW28jWcvKiPfNmTVQs66ObsavJTBJQYxWiLTRMLC7pjtzXKg2d2eKYwkS8cjMOj83mYKqtWakg8GkjMz3RMxdVEtvfF2JIb7M5pePkMpJiZhW81qDQ/s320/f2eb4502-2b13-4af6-9d46-b852ea6a5c8f_419-sign.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389575441106_7861" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sorry pot heads, if you’re looking for a sign <a data-mce-href="http://news.yahoo.com/mile-marker-420-becomes-419-99-thwart-thieves-235742124.html" data-rapid_p="10" href="http://news.yahoo.com/mile-marker-420-becomes-419-99-thwart-thieves-235742124.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">it’s no longer “420” on Colorado’s Interstate 70</a>.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389575441106_7851" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">That’s because while buying marijuana may now be legal in Colorado, stealing a sign with a slang reference to the drug is still frowned upon. But state officials said that just wasn’t stopping the repeated theft of a sign with a popular numerical term that for many is a common reference to marijuana.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389575441106_7941" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">It sounds like the kind of solution only a pot smoker would come up with. But it turns out marijuana signage enthusiasts are the ones forcing Colorado officials to think creatively.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389575441106_7951" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">On Colorado’s Interstate 70, there is a sign marked “MILE 420.” And for those not in the know, “ <a data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28cannabis_culture%29" data-rapid_p="11" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28cannabis_culture%29" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">420</a>” is a common shorthand used by fellow pot smokers. Like the effects of smoking the plant itself, the term has hazy origins but is said to have originated as code amongst a group of California teens when they wanted to signal each other for a smoking excursion.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389575441106_7962" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">So, after the sign has been stolen a number of times in recent years, Colorado officials decided to move the sign slightly up the road and change its name to <a data-mce-href="http://imgur.com/wTdReCr" data-rapid_p="12" href="http://imgur.com/wTdReCr" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389575441106_7961" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">MILE 419.99</a>.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389575441106_7980" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In fact, it has been <a data-mce-href="http://kdvr.com/2014/01/10/cdot-replaced-420-mile-marker-sign-with-419-99-sign-because-of-thieves/" data-rapid_p="13" href="http://kdvr.com/2014/01/10/cdot-replaced-420-mile-marker-sign-with-419-99-sign-because-of-thieves/" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">stolen so many times,</a> state officials weren't sure of the exact number.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389575441106_7989" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Obviously people steal these signs," Amy Ford of the Colorado Department of Transportation told the <a data-mce-href="http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24889289/colorado-hopes-mile-419-99-sign-interstate-70" data-rapid_p="14" href="http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24889289/colorado-hopes-mile-419-99-sign-interstate-70" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Denver Post</a>. "In the past, if a sign was stolen too much, we wouldn't replace it. This is sort of an innovative way for us to keep the sign there."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><br />Ford told the Associated Press that it’s the only sign of its kind that has been replaced so far, as most highways do not extend out to the 420-mile marker point.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389575441106_7999" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But they did take inspiration from another bit of signage tweaking in the state. A previous marker reading “MILE 69,” which some took as reference to a sexual practice,” was replaced with “MILE 68.5” after repeated thefts.</div></div>

‘Mile 420’ marker replaced in Colorado after repeated thefts from pot fans (BLOG)

Sorry pot heads, if you’re looking for a sign  it’s no longer “420” on Colorado’s Interstate 70 . That’s because while buying marijuana may ...

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