Normative Signs: The Poetry of "Ought"

Here’s a ‘no parking’ sign with attitude.

(Thanks to Peter Jarowski for sending the picture, which was taken in downtown Ottawa.)

You get some understanding of why the sign is so emphatic when you see it in context: it is posted above a “siamese” connection, a place where firefighters can connect a hose to pump water into a burning building’s sprinkler system.