When you walk around in your local neighborhoods or city there are many things that just disappear because you see them so much but may be novel and strange for others. This is one of them for me, signs that warn about icy death from above.

They show up as soon as snow starts to fall and some just stay around forever. Except being a nice thing to be warned about I’ve understood it that it’s supposed to be a temporary way of avoiding the legal responsibility that the building owner has to not injure people with things falling off the building. But they usually stay around at least all of winter.

Have a look at these signs in the carousel below or on the full gallery page.