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Two creepy signs appeared over a bridge in Pennsylvania
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The signs featured an image of Billy the Puppet from the Saw franchise, along with the phrases “Maybe you’ll fit, maybe you won’t” and “Let’s play a game”
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The signs, which were placed there illegally in Seven Valleys, were seemingly in reference to the fact that several tall vehicles have accidentally hit the bridge in recent months
Two large, creepy signs have been removed from a bridge in Pennsylvania.
The signs appeared over a bridge in Seven Valleys around the weekend of Aug. 9, according to NBC affiliate WGAL8. Both signs featured an image of Billy the Puppet from the iconic horror franchise Saw, along with the phrases “Maybe you’ll fit, maybe you won’t” and “Let’s play a game.”
The caption seemed to be a reference to the fact that a number of trucks and tall vehicles have accidentally hit the overpass — which measures 11 feet, 1 inch tall — in recent months, per the outlet.
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“The signs, which were placed at the bridge illegally, have since been removed,” Brett Marcy, a York County spokesperson, said in a statement to WGAL8.
He added that the bridge in question has “been struck six times since June 6,” and also said that the county “continues to explore options with stakeholders for enhancing safety at the bridge and supports efforts to increase awareness around low-bridge height safety.”
Greg Mussmacher, a local resident who drives by the bridge every day, told WGAL8 that he was “stunned” to see the signs, but he was also “a little disappointed” to find they had been taken down.
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“I wasn’t sad, but I was a little disappointed. […] Because it does — I think it helps. Getting people to notice, whether it’s funny or satirical,” he said. “I’ve actually been there before when the truck was stuck underneath on my way to work, and there’s no easy way to get around it.”
“I don’t know why people are complaining about the sign,” resident Dee Neal told the outlet. “They [drivers] can’t read [the] 11-foot, one-inch [road sign], but they could see that [Saw] sign,”
“I mean, it was distracting, but they need something to distract people from just running through there,” Neal added.
Dave Thompson, the Community Relations Coordinator with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), told PEOPLE that a stop sign was recently installed near the bridge in the hopes that drivers would take note of the bridge’s height restriction and re-route accordingly.
“PennDOT’s latest effort was to install a STOP sign on the eastbound approach, to better regulate traffic through the underpass,” Thompson says.
“Another benefit of the STOP sign is to try to give motorists, specifically those driving over-height vehicles, additional opportunity to recognize and correctly respond to the height clearance signs,” he adds.
PEOPLE reached out to the Seven Valleys local government for comment on Thursday, Aug. 14, but did not receive an immediate response.
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