On Signage (and balls)

Balls Signage. Boulder, Colorado, 2014

Keep your eyeballs skinned for unusual signage. Eventually, unavoidably, you’ll build up a pretty good collection of strange and confounding announcements, warnings, anti-grammar lessons, diagrams, etc.

With the above, the person assigned the task of creating this warning certainly had a sense of humor. The neighbors must be very tired of finding uninvited balls in their yard on a regular basis.

Some questions, though…

–Are multiple balls in use on the court at the same time? (Thus, the plural.) Why?

–Is it just the police who will be called? Or an ambulance and a plastic surgeon, too?

–Grammarians, shouldn’t it read “they go” rather than “it goes”? (That plural thing again.)

–And…Just who is “The Source”?

Inquiring, demented minds want to know!