Years ago a bar in our neighborhood had a sign.... pop a balloon 🎈 win a prize. Bring your own prick.

Someone on the larger street outside my subdivision put up a blue penguin wearing a top hat and holding a sign that said "Merry Christmas" or something along those lines. It was very windy as I drove by one day and it was really straining on its anchor lines.

I got to thinking, if that thing gets lose and blows across the road, imagine the possibility of a driver veering out of its way, only to crash into one of the cars parked along the shoulder. The penguin would be long gone before the police got there and the driver would be trying to explain that he'd swerved to avoid hitting a giant blue penguin in a top hat with a Merry Christmas sign. I figured that poor driver would probably end up in the drunk tank.

Now that they're everywhere, the cops would understand, of course. But they were still quite unusual back then. I'd guess it was about 2004. I had a good laugh at the thought during the moment though.

...and crescent moon Halloween decoration. From our driveway, we could only see the side of the crescent moon. From that particular vantage point, it looked for all the world like a giant erect penis.