Funny Signs Part II

As a follow up to my recent post about funny signs, I dug up some old pics of signs I took while living in Switzerland four years ago.

This is robidog. As you can probably figure out, the green box is a trash can designed especially for dog poop. Switzerland has kilometer upon kilometer of what they call "fitweg" (pronounced fit-veg). These are single track paths for running, walking, or biking that have different exercise stations along them for things like pull ups or sit ups etc. The US equivalent would be something like a parcourse. About every 3 or 4 km, there's one of these green robidog cans encouraging people to clean up after their dogs. I love them so much I had to take a picture of one. The picture says it all. You can barely make it out, but yes, there is a little cartoon turd behind that adorable little little mutt.

This is definitely my favorite door sign ever. This was at the University of Bern, Switzerland on one of the office doors in the Department of Biomedical Optics. Immediately to the left of the door was a coffee vending machine. People would break for coffee and head to the machine. When going as a twosome or as a group, people would stand to the left or right of the machine with their scalding hot beverages while waiting for everyone to get their coffee. This door had no window and opened outward into the hall with the vending machine. If someone were leaving the department offices, the door would swing open, and slam into whomever was standing there. It's a solid wood door and was very heavy. Not only did getting hit hurt, but if you were holding your coffee, it was very likely that it would spill all over you and scald you in the process. This became such a regular occurrence that they had to have a custom warning sign made for the door. (Apparently that was easier than moving the vending machine.)