In an attempt to foil stoned thieves from continuously stealing mile marker 420 on I-70, which runs 450 miles east to west through the state, Colorado DOT have come up with a plan. If you are not in the know; Wikipedia explains, 420 is a code-term used primarily in North America that refers to the consumption of cannabis and by extension, as a way to identify oneself with cannabis subculture or simply cannabis itself. Observances based on the number 420 include smoking cannabis around the time 4:20 p.m. Or in this case - inside your home underneath the stolen 420 sign.

The Denver Post reports, CDOT spokeswoman Amy Ford confirmed that a photo of the unusual mile-marker sign floating around the Internet is real. She said the fractional sign was put up within the past year. The Google Street View image for the 420th mile of I-70 — along a desolate stretch of prairie just east of Stratton — still shows a Mile 420 marker.



"Obviously people steal these signs," Ford said. "In the past, if a sign was stolen too much, we wouldn't replace it. This is sort of an innovative way for us to keep the sign there."



Ford notes that this isn't the first time that the Colorado DOT has had to come up with a way to stop road sign thefts; mile marker 68.5 is proudly still standing west of Fort Collins....