If you can't beat 'em ... joint 'em? The City of Amsterdam has begun selling recently introduced "no toking" signs to prevent the official ones from being stolen as collector's items, a spokesman said Friday.

"On Wednesday we placed the first sign, and it was gone the next morning," said Wim de Graaf. "We put up a new one Thursday, and it was taken the same night as well. That's when the idea came to us to just sell them."

The city is selling them for 90 euros each (around US$110), and plans to donate the proceeds to charity.


Check it out, they look pretty cool.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/03/D8FHR5I00.html

Now they will probably all be sold out by the time I get there:-(

I'm am trying to figure out how to oder on of these signs but I dont understand enough dutch.
Can someone please tell me how I am supposed to order one, how I can pay and where I pick it up.

I see an e-mail link at the bottom of this page. But I dont know how they want me to use it exactly. Thanks...

http://www.baarsjes.amsterdam.nl/asp/ge ... t=00000001

the info says that if you would like to purchase an official sign yourself then email the address listed.

doog!

withnail (who really must get on his bike and cycle the three streets or so to have a look for himself how the sign looks in its (un)natural habitat)

Expatica reports that of more than 300 requests for signs, the majority have come from the USA.
The price is 90 euro (not sure if that includes the postage) and they are currently sold out of the 90 or so they had on hand.

... and it goes on....

http://www.blowbord.com/index-en.php

withnail