"Trespassers shot. Survivors shot again" (1983)

[Dennis Baron]

Don't they read Winnie the Pooh in Texas?

DB

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My wife who makes these up all the time says signs says such signs
should
read Trespassers Will be Violated.

Page Stephens

>
> “Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.”
>
> The usual sign is: “Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be
prosecuted.”
>  The humorous take on that sign is: “Trespassers will be shot.
Survivors will
> be  shot again.”
>
> The “Survivors will be shot again” sign dates from at least  the
early 1980s
> and has been posted throughout Texas and many other states.
>
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