The Toynbee Tiles

[TallGeekyGirl]

Has anyone heard of this or actually seen one of the tiles?

In 1992, a chap in Philadelphia by the name of Bill O'Neill starting noticing strange tiles randomly embedded in local roads. They were generally about the size of a license plate, and each had some variation of the same strange message: "TOYNBEE IDEA IN KUbricK's 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPiTER." They varied a bit in color and arrangement, but they were all made of an unidentifiable hard substance, and many had footnotes as strange as the message itself, such as "Murder every journalist, I beg you," and "Submit. Obey." Some were accompanied by lengthy, paranoid diatribes about the newsmedia, jews, and the mafia.

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=29

http://www.toynbee.net/

http://www.citybeat.com/2001-08-02/news.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles

[Atlanta Jake]

This has been discussed here several times... It is a strange story about a strange man...

And I have seen one - in Indianapolis Indiana, it appeared to me to have been cut out of the heavy-duty reflective tape that the highway department uses to put temporary stripes on newly paved roads. It was rambling, and incoherent.

Sorr I don't have any links for you, but yours seem to cover it nicely...

Jake