Pennsylvania deli 'warns' drivers: 'The cop hides behind this sign'
Deli tries to warn drivers to slow down near accident hotspot with a notice saying ‘The cop hides behind this sign’ only for officers to oblige and park their cruiser behind it!
- The sign was posted outside of PJ’s Deli, Catering and Bakery in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh
- Featuring big, black block letters, the humorous warning reads, ‘Slow down… The cop hides behind this sign’
- Deli owner Pam Wheat says the sign is intended to prevent accidents in a nearby area where she sees them ‘almost daily’
- The Bridgeville Police Department posted the sign on their Facebook page
- Their reaction? ‘Well… I guess the jokes on us!! SMH Good one PJ’s Deli!!’ complete with laughing and face-palm emojis
- Bridgeville Police Chief Chad King said the sign ‘shows we can laugh at ourselves’
- The deli has posted other funny signs, including one that stated, ‘If you’re reading this sign you’re not watching the road’
A tongue-in-cheek message outside a western Pennsylvania deli warns drivers of police presence to discourage speeding. Law enforcement has given it a thumbs-up after sharing it on social media.
The humorous warning outside PJ’s Deli, Catering and Bakery, in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, reads, ‘Slow down… The cop hides behind this sign,’ in big, black block letters.
The police department posted a photo of the sign on Facebook last week with laughing and face-palm emojis and the caption, ‘Well… I guess the jokes on us!! SMH Good one PJ’s Deli!!’
The tongue-in-cheek sign is meant as a warning to drivers in Bridgeville near Pittsburgh
Deli owner Pam Wheat told Fox 5 Atlanta that the notice is meant to stop a real problem.
‘We see accidents almost daily on our corner because it’s a bad intersection, but [the police] do not use my property to hide, so you can let that secret out of the bag,’ Wheat said.
The deli is located at the intersection of Bower Hill Road and McLaughlin Run Road in Bridgeville, about 13 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.
The police department checked the sign out for themselves.
PJ’s Deli, Catering and Bakery owner Pam Wheat says she sees accidents nearby ‘almost daily’
‘It was put up as a joke, and they came and parked a cruiser behind the sign and took their own picture,’ Wheat said.
‘I thought this was great because it shows we can laugh at ourselves,’ said Bridgeville Police Chief Chad King.
‘I think there’s a stigma out there that police officers are robotic, and I like to show that we interact well with the public and we like to have a good relationship with the public.’
‘It shows we can laugh at ourselves,’ Police Chief Chad King said after his department posted a photo of the sign on its Facebook page
Wheat appears to have a knack for attention-grabbing signs, which may or may not undermine her goal of keeping drivers’ eyes on the road.
‘Come try “the worst food you’ll ever eat in your life” according to some chick on Facebook,’ reads a sign posted in July 2020.
‘”I’d eat here,” – the owner,’ says one posted in November.
Wheat has a knack for attention-grabbing signs
Rounding out the safe driving public service announcements, one from last September says, ‘If you’re reading this sign you’re not watching the road.’
The deli’s Facebook page has posted news stories of the sign since an article was first published in local news last week.
‘Seems we’ve made the news coast to coast with this one,’ read a post on the deli’s Facebook page Saturday.
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