Best of Getaway funny signs: gravely humorous

It’s amazing how many people go to considerable lengths to tell other people wacky things on boards – and often get the message so delightfully wrong doing it. Hundreds of these memorable signs have been spotted, photographed, and sent in by Getaway readers as they journey through these hilarious, poignant, silly, ridiculous and often bewildering signs.

Getaway magazine looks back over the twenty-odd years of publishing to bring you this Best of Getaway Funny Signs collection. This definitely doesn’t mean that these funny signs have all been seen before. In recent years travel has become easier and more and more Getaway readers have explored an ever-increasing footprint across the planet, meaning the repertoire of funny signs pictures have grown to include some never-seen-before corkers.

Here is a selection of the funniest signs about the grave

*We are not saying that death is funny, we’re just saying that, even in dark times, our readers managed to see the laugh at the end of the tunnel.

Perhaps the service at this undertakers in Harare isn’t as fast as it should be, says local resident Peter Mills, given their address is 139 Rotten Row.

It seems that although the cost of living might be on the rise, death comes cheap, as this sign shows – spotted in Klerksdorp by Ohna Norval of Weltevreden Park.

Long before the Arrive live Campaign, this monumental mason in Paarl was promoting road safety, says Jim Caulkin of Franschhoek.