I remember hearing a story of a teenager from the U.S. who thought it would be hilarious to steal some stop signs from around his town. He accomplished this and a little while later he was speeding about in his car and went through the junction where he’d removed one of the signs and was hit by a truck. The truck driver was seriously injured but survived but the young stop sign thief suffered an ironic (some might say fitting) end to his life.

Stop signs, my friends. They are necessary.