Humorous Signs in Santa Cruz Neighborhood, Alicante – Creative Solution to Curb Bad Behavior

Few weapons are more powerful than humor, capable of taking the most common message to the other side of the world or turning the most boring of recommendations viral. So, what better than to apply humor against the uncivil. so they have done several residents of Alicantethat for a long time, have installed in the Santa Cruz neighborhood some posters with an explicit warning in order to curb bad behavior committed in this area of ​​the city.

This clever visual campaign seems to be succeeding and is certainly fulfilling the main mission of any sign: to make an impact. Created under an always reliable maxim, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, these labels do not use a single letterbut a simple glance is enough to understand its message.

The figure of a man urinating, crossed by a thick diagonal red line that shows its prohibition, is completed at the bottom with a subtle and elegant threat that can become justified: the icons of a pair of scissors and a couple of eggs (not testicles). Never has the mission of deciphering hieroglyphs been as simple as in this case.

These particular drawings are becoming a more attractive among the most emblematic elements of the Old Town, such as its white facades or its floral decoration. The posters not only attract the attention of tourists, but also that of other residents of the capital who are unaware of its existenceand some do not hesitate to photograph them and share them on social networks, as Twitter user @GRET79 has done.

There are several signs of this type that can be found in this corner of town, whose residents maintained a bloody war against the bottle some time ago. To curb this activity, and some of its effects, such as the remains of urine in the streets, the residents were forced several years ago to post these witty warning signsalthough it is unknown if the punishment proposed in them has ever been carried out.

What they have organized are other initiatives to clean up the image of the neighborhood, stained by the bottle, which in some cases has led to acts of vandalism and attacks on the residents themselves. To promote a better atmosphere in these iconic streets of the city, the residents decorated the windows, steps and other corners with the lighting of candles to recover the prestige of one of the most charming places in Alicante that for a time was sullied by incivility.