More and more political signs are popping up in yards and lots across the Tri-State, and police are warning people to leave them alone.
"You pull up and you try to look, you have to look both ways two or three times," driver Robin Laine.
Some political signs in the Tri-State are making the wrong impressions with drivers.
"It's very dangerous because this is a very busy intersection right here. There's been times I've seen cars pull out and have to slam on their brakes real quick because they didn't see the car coming down the road," Laine said.
Such was the case with a man as he pulled up to the corner of Wabash and Columbia. He looks both ways before moving forward and slamming on his brakes, narrowly missing another vehicle coming his way.
"I had to pull up so far so I could see down the street. You know, it's a hazard," Donald Langford.
That's just one example. Cheryl Musgrave with Keep Evansville Beautiful says while there are rules for where these First Amendment signs can be placed, the rules can be hard to enforce.
"Even where they're appropriately placed, make sure that you can safely see around them that they aren't obstructing the view of traffic. I think safety is a key issue," Musgrave said.
Evansville Police say they've received no complaints about the signs and say complaints are often politically motivated.
"We don't actively patrol looking for signs that are placed in the public thoroughfare or anything like that. We don't want to get into the middle of political stuff," said Jason Cullum with Evansville Police.
"I understand right now it's an election year and everyone's got their signs out and stuff like that, but they do kind of block people's views," Laine said.
The candidates have permission to have those signs in that lot and police say the signs appear to be within the city's guidelines. Theft of signs can bring a misdemeanor charge.
