Several signs have popped up in San Francisco that encourage a very questionable tactic for preventing theft.
According to NBC Bay Area, the signs popped up around Alamo Square Park, which is bordered on one side by the famous Painted Ladies houses seen in the opening credits of Full House.
Printed on sturdy board and nailed to wooden posts, the signs list four ways to prevent theft — with one that most people wouldn’t expect.
Wait, what? Several signs have popped up in San Francisco that encourage people to use angry bees to ward of thieves
The first four steps on the signs are pretty straight-forward: lock your car, take your keys, and hide your belongings. Each one, printed on a different color, is illustrated by a tiny drawing — a car, a key, and a purse.
The fourth tip, though, is where things take a turn.
‘Fill a decoy purse with thousands of angry, poisonous bees, the line reads,’ and is accompanied by an illustration of a bee.
A credit at the bottom of the sign attributes it to the San Francisco Police Department and includes the phone number for Northern Station.
According to NBC, local residents actually created the funny signs. They are replicas of one created by Obvious Plant, a comedy project by Jeff Wysaski.
Funny: The signs were hung up by locals and are inspired by ones created by Obvious Plant in 2015
Dangerous: Another version said to ‘scatter the scorched bones of your fallen enemies so criminals know what happens when they f*** with you’
Clever: A third suggested people ‘tape a recent pay stub to the door so thieves know you’re poor and have nothing of value’
Epidemic: San Francisco had 28,984 reported car break-ins in 2017
The original version also advised using bees, as well as several other unexpected and unconventional theft deterrents.
Put up in a parking lot in 2015, the original signs also suggested people ‘scatter the scorched bones of your fallen enemies so criminals know what happens when they f*** with you.’
Another sign said to ‘lie in wait under a blanket in the back seat holding a crossbow and grenade,’ while yet another said to ‘tape a recent pay stub to the door so thieves know you’re poor and have nothing of value.’
According to NBC, these joke signs may be especially useful in San Francisco, which had 28,984 reported car break-ins in 2017. That was 18 per cent more than the 24,624 car break-in reports in 2016.