Sundry
After the great success of the US television programme ALF, the roadsign bearing the municipality’s name was stolen many times in the late 1980s in a situation similar to what had been happening to Fucking in Austria. To stem the rash of thefts, the municipality finally offered copies of the roadsign for sale, printed on one side only. To make these signs distinguishable from the ones that were actually posted at the roadside, they had the municipal stamp and the mayor’s signature on the back.
Read more about this topic: Alf, Rhineland-Palatinate