Welcome to Utah

Here’s a sign along the side of the road near the Golden Spike National Historic Site near Promontory, Utah. There’s good news, and there’s bad news.

First question: what are all the little bright spots visible on the sign? From the back, the source becomes clear:

This sign has sustained hundreds of hits from pistols, rifles and buckshot, and thousands of hits from birdshot.

OK, the bad news: there’s a bit of brainless lawlessness involved in blasting away at road signs.

The good news: around here firearms are so common that people go blasting away at road signs and nobody seems to much notice. Around here, private property is *not* blasted all to hell and gone, and neither are livestock or *people.* So the local hooligans take it as far as taking potshots at The Government, but not at The People.

Freakin’ awesome.