The stickers on signs in Mallorca's mountains
Innocent enough, but this is an infringement
In October last year, attention was drawn to stickers on road signs in the Tramuntana Mountains. A few months on and such is the number of stickers that there are signs which are completely covered with them.
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If these signs can be traceable to their origins. Apply very large fines to those groups of stickers.
Utter scum. I'm pretty sure that they extol the beauty of riding through the Serra de Tramuntana and, at the same time, deface it. As the stickers bear the name of the clubs, the police should start fining the clubs involved large sums, maybe that will deter their members from committing this vandalism. It doesn't matter that the clubs are based in Germany, they could still be fined. Committing a crime in a foreign country doesn't absolve the perpetrator from punishment.
Marvin Le MartianMay be trying WD40 for cleaning. I have used WD40 soaked in a small cloth or tissue when accidently smudging superglue on my car dashboard once, and WD40 removed the superglue without marking the dash.
Almost exclusively a German thing. God knows why. Once you spot them they start popping up in all sorts of places. Drain pipes have started to be adorned with them as well and they’re a bugger to remove too.
Please cycle and other groups, keep the signs clean, as it is also nice to get a photo of the sign as a mento. Put up sticker boards under the signs or on a seperate pole where the stickers can be stuck. Anyone that feels they need to put a sticker on the brown information sign, should be fined say €1000 and if it is a cycle group, and take the bike away and make the culprit/s walk back. The €1000 fine could be used to cover the costs of policing the signs hotspots. Just a few fines advertised on social media should stop this filthy practice almost straight away, hopefully.