Moment of street-sign zen: Blowing Forbidden

We could use a few of these on Hollywood Boulevard, too. Jasper Steutel writes,

This is a photo of a new street sign in Amsterdam which locals and tourists will see appear in some neigbouroods.

The accompanying article is in dutch but says so much that a neigbourhood in Amsterdam has put up these new signs and is also selling the signs to other neigbourhoods for 80 euros.

The text under it reads "blowverbod," which your travel dictionary would translate as "blowing forbidden."

Reader Comment: ScottG In NYC says,

If you run the story text into WordLingo's translator, it seems there's a little more to the story...the translation seems to imply that the signs were quickly stolen a couple of times since they went up Wednesday, so the neighborhood gov't (A'dam is divided into something like a dozen boroughs, sorta like NYC) decided to start selling the signs for a "good aimcause" of some sort (in NL, it could be anything!).

(Thanks, Richard)