Damn Potheads!

[Josquius]

Legalise weed and stoners won't have to be using code numbers (never heard of this 420 stuff and I know a fair number of stoners, is it new?) and getting high in the wilderness.

[dps]

My elderly parents have a cabin in the woods north of Barrie, Ontario. Apparently, even in such a rural spot, you are obliged to hang out a street number on a government-issued sign. The only problem is that the sign keeps getting stolen. Their neighbours' signs aren't stolen -only theirs. Repeatedly. The government is now charging them a replacement fee.

They had no clue as to why ... as it turns out, their number is "420". Which is allegedly some sort of stoner code-number. No doubt the missing signs are decorating some asshole stoner's room. 

I thought you were a pot head in your youth.  Are you sure that you aren't getting all fucked up and stealing it.

Yeah, that probably explains why his parents are the ones getting targetted.

[garbon]

never heard of this 420 stuff and I know a fair number of stoners, is it new?

I'll will never cease to be amused by the things you don't know.

[jimmy olsen]

Legalise weed and stoners won't have to be using code numbers (never heard of this 420 stuff and I know a fair number of stoners, is it new?) and getting high in the wilderness.

I can give a pass on Malthus not knowing because of his age (though I was surprised he didn't know since he was a smoker), but really?

[garbon]

Legalise weed and stoners won't have to be using code numbers (never heard of this 420 stuff and I know a fair number of stoners, is it new?) and getting high in the wilderness.

I can give a pass on Malthus not knowing because of his age (though I was surprised he didn't know since he was a smoker), but really?

Wiki suggests it is a North America thing.

[Grey Fox]

never heard of this 420 stuff and I know a fair number of stoners, is it new?

I'll will never cease to be amused by the things you don't know.

It makes me wonder, what does he know?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Ignoring the stoners for the time being, a policy which has served me well over the decades, this law about cabins in the Great Canadian Wilderness having to have government approved signs seems a bit intrusive and asinine. Do they also have periodic checks to make sure that the toilet seat has been put down and that the verandah has been swept?

[Monoriu]

I find it odd that residents and home owners have to put up government street signs.  If the government wants to put up signs, it should send people to do it. 

[Brazen]

That 420 thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28cannabis_culture%29

I can't help thinking only stoners would have picked up on something like that

[Viking]

That 420 thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28cannabis_culture%29

I can't help thinking only stoners would have picked up on something like that

I remember the Real Time episode from april 20 this year. Bill Maher puffed himself up and declared that it was april 20 and don't you all know what was going to be celebrated?

I was in shock, my jaw dropped to the floor I was amazed.. celebrating hitler's birthday?

but then again, trust the stoner not to look up april 20 on "this day in history" before declaring it a celebration of weed.

[Malthus]

Can't you just paint the number on the curb? Kinda hard for potheads to steal that.

Painting on a gravel road is unrewarding. 

[Malthus]

My elderly parents have a cabin in the woods north of Barrie, Ontario. Apparently, even in such a rural spot, you are obliged to hang out a street number on a government-issued sign. The only problem is that the sign keeps getting stolen. Their neighbours' signs aren't stolen -only theirs. Repeatedly. The government is now charging them a replacement fee.

They had no clue as to why ... as it turns out, their number is "420". Which is allegedly some sort of stoner code-number. No doubt the missing signs are decorating some asshole stoner's room. 

I thought you were a pot head in your youth.  Are you sure that you aren't getting all fucked up and stealing it.

First I'd have to invent that time machine ... 

[Malthus]

Ignoring the stoners for the time being, a policy which has served me well over the decades, this law about cabins in the Great Canadian Wilderness having to have government approved signs seems a bit intrusive and asinine. Do they also have periodic checks to make sure that the toilet seat has been put down and that the verandah has been swept?

Way I heard it explained is that it is a safety thing. There are no real landmarks for fire or ambulance around, so if someone calls in an emergency (as happens from time to time), people need to know where it is more exactly than "somewhere on Bass Lake Sideroad, west of Line 8".   

[Maximus]

Yes, 911 service requires street addresses. The area I grew up in was still somewhat pioneer country until my mid teens and didn't have niceties of civilization like 911 service. When that went in, it was required that all dwellings have a number and it had to be displayed on an approved sign.

[ulmont]

Yes, 911 service requires street addresses. The area I grew up in was still somewhat pioneer country until my mid teens and didn't have niceties of civilization like 911 service. When that went in, it was required that all dwellings have a number and it had to be displayed on an approved sign.

911 service, or at least some improvements thereto, resulted in my parents' house finally getting a street number (1234 Highway 12) rather than simply having a rural route code for mail (Rt. 1 Box 123).