In the late hours of February 21, a curious event unfolded near a residence on Tukhachevsky Street in Vladivostok. A car with no license plate rolled up to a street sign that instructed drivers not to stop and replaced it with a sign indicating that drivers must give way. The swap appeared to be performed by unidentified individuals who did not linger afterward, leaving the area with a sign that directed different traffic behavior than before.
Residents soon noted a practical consequence: the location in question serves as the sole access point for a nearby building. When a vehicle parks there, it can block the way for both residents and municipal cleaning crews. This observation led some to speculate that the replacement sign might have been carried out by people seeking to avoid parking penalties or to manipulate traffic flow in the area.
A second interpretation considered automatic or non-automatic processes that could have influenced the situation after the sign was placed. The space behind the sign feeds into a nearby evasion route, and the activity around the time of the incident suggested that individuals connected to adjacent areas might have taken advantage of the situation. While an unauthorized sign technically carries no legal weight, those intent on exploiting it could misinterpret the altered traffic cues as justification for reckless driving or staged mishaps in hopes of creating an incident that would appear legitimate for insurance or legal purposes.
The makeshift sign was reportedly removed by authorities or caretakers on the morning of February 24, returning the intersection to its prior state and enabling standard traffic flow once again.
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