This Was A Solid Investment: Undetected Road Sign Commute Hack

This was a solid investment 😂
I changed a road sign to make my commute easier 13 years ago.
On my daily commute there was very inconvenient 'no right turn between 7am-9:30am' sign. I had to make the right turn about 7:20am every day. For a long time I would just break the law and make my turn any way or go around if I thought there was too many people watching.
But (maybe out of boredom) I did a bit of research and found the ticket for the illegal turn was more than buying a sign from the supplier that makes signs for our area and several other locations. So I ordered a new sign that was 'no right turn between 7:30am- 9:30am'. I figured it was a good investment. I went to the trouble of buying it through an alias and having it sent to a location that was not at all near to where I was. Real cloak and dagger stuff, but it was part of the fun.
Then in the middle of the night I went and removed two bolts and put up the new sign.
At first I was expecting for it to be removed or someone look into to it, but it is more than a decade later and no one ever noticed or changed it.

This image is a screenshot of a viral first-person anecdote where an anonymous user explains their clever, illegal hack to make their daily commute easier that has gone undetected for over 13 years. The original public road sign banned right turns between 7am and 9:30am, which conflicted with the user's daily 7:20am commute when they needed to turn right. They calculated that potential ticket costs exceeded the cost of buying a custom official matching sign, so they ordered a new sign that shifted the start of the ban to 7:30am, snuck out overnight to swap the signs, and after 13 years the modified sign has still not been noticed or corrected by authorities. The top text calls this action a 'solid investment' with a laughing emoji.

This image was posted to 9Gag with the original title 'This person is living in 3024'. It features a first-person anecdote from an anonymous internet user that went viral for its clever, humorous, undetected long-term prank/hack.