Make street names less fun to stop theft

 A rural Georgia county is losing about 550 street signs a year to thieves. The street signs that have popular names like Mary Jane Lane, Boone's Farm, and Green Acres have been reported stolen frequently. The stolen signs have been having a costly outcome on the county. So costly, in fact, that it costs the county $17,000 a year to replace the stolen signs. McIntosh County Commissioner Mark Douglas says that by changing the signs names to boring names will solve the theft problem.




Wow! I f you think about it, that really is a lot of money to be spending a year just to be replacing those stupid stolen signs. I can understand why people would steal those signs though. It's because they are funny and people probably think it is cool to have a sign that says something like Boone's Farm or Mary Jane Lane. I imagine if they have to spend $17,000 a year to replace the signs, then every teenager in town must have at least one of those signs. I think that they should set cameras up in the neighborhoods with those signs and catch the theives so that they can be put to justice for taking the signs in the first place. Stealing is stealing and nobody likes a theif! I think that the thieves should be caught and punished just like any other theif. If somebody were to steal something from Wal-Mart then they would be caught and punished. I don't think the "sign thieves" should get away with what they've done. Changing the signs names would probably stop the problem but I think that the thieves should be caught and punished. They will continue to steal unless they are punished for it. Besides, if they change the signs names then they are just creating a big pain because then everybody that lives on those streets are going to have to change their postal addresses!