Overly threatening sign on public road

[Rufusgy]

Was just out cycling and came across this. Seems quite threatening to me and as I was on my own I turned back even though I needed to go down it to complete the loop I'd planned.

Is this a joke, you seriously turned around? ffs get a grip.

A child did this, surely?

What's the picture supposed to be?

I mean, I can read the sign, but I can't see what the bit in white is.

Is that a picture of a dog?

I think it's intended as an amusing warning, and it probably didn't occur to them that anyone would deem it threatening at all, let alone turn around.

I take it you were on a public road? If so why would you turn back? What did you expect to encounter?

There is a house with a sign on the wall stating "don't even think of parking here" near here, I will always park on the public road on front of it. You obv haven't embraced your inner rebel!

Did you really turn around?!

Was it a private road?

Just looks like someone has forgotten when halloween is.

The picture looks to me like a "ghost" carrying it's head under its arm.

Just to add some context it was a narrow road,In the country no one near or to hear if I screamed. I was out of breath, exaused and vonrable on my bike.

oh dear, it's clearly just someone having a laugh. Serial killers don't tend to forewarn victims with signs....

That looks like a leftover from some sort of zombie event or something.

Oh fgs it's just part of a ghost walk, social event or just a prank.

My guess would be that there was a series of signs leading either to a party or some event in a pub or similar. I think someone who intended harm to random passers by would not have spent time making such an elaborate sign. Mrsdevere is right, though, if it was clowns rather than ghosts or big dogs I would have been out of there like a shot.

Daave you considered getting medical help for your a anxiety?

*Have you

Why didn't you just pick it up and shove it in the bush?

Emmmmmmmmm. Ok.

Um ... Really?

Who knows why it's there but it's a reference to Labyrinth, those big stone heads that try and turn Sarah and Hoggle back. The picture is one of the heads.

Copied from IMDB:

First Statue: Don't go on...
Second Statue: Go back, while you still can...
Third Statue: This is not the way...
Fourth Statue: Take heed, and go no further...
Fifth Statue: Beware, beware...
Sixth Statue: Soon it will be too late...
Hoggle: Ah, don't pay any attention to them, they're just false alarms. You get a lot of them in the Labyrinth, especially when you're on the right track.
Seventh Statue: Oh, no you're not!
Hoggle: Oh, shut up.
Seventh Statue: I'm sorry, I'm just doing my job.
Hoggle: Well, you don't have to do it to us.
Eighth Statue: [deep, booming voice] Beware, for...
Hoggle: Just forget it.
Eighth Statue: [normal voice] Oh, please. I haven't said it in such a long time.
Hoggle: Oh, all right. But don't expect a big reaction.
Eighth Statue: No, no, no, of course not.
Eighth Statue: [clears throat, deep, booming voice] For the path you will take will lead you to certain destruction!
Eighth Statue: [normal voice] Thank you very much.

Thats from labyrinth isn't it?

OP, if this sign seriously made you turn around, you really shouldn't be cycling on your own.