The Chinese are oft viewed as an inscrutable people. I further this opinion by offering pictorial evidence:



As best I can surmise, this street sign from China must mean: "No cars with expoding roofs on this road". Of course, this hardly seems like a logical warning, because I wouldn't want _any_ cars with exploding roofs on _any_ roads. (Excepting perhaps the road leading to, or leaving from, a demolition derby. Because that would look cool).

I think maybe, in China, cars were manufactured during a certain time period that stored their fuel in the roof. The heat from the sun must, therefore, periodically cause these roof-based fuel tanks to explode. They didn't realize that this would happen, because all the cars were manufactured and first sold in a perpetually cloudy region of China. When the cars finally made it to sunnier climates, the production line was ceased and the cars were re-tooled.

Unfortunately this took a four-year period of time (damn communists), and many, many such cars were produced. As such, signs are now necessary to warn people not to drive the explosive-roofed cars.

Does anyone out there have any better notions of what this sign could possibly mean? If so, please post something here.