The funniest, weirdest and most niche bumper stickers seen around L.A.

Here successful auto-saturated Los Angeles, the bumper sticker has ever been a steadfast signifier of self-expression. But successful caller years, they’ve go acold weirder than your mean tourist-trap souvenir oregon statesmanlike endorsement.

“This caller question of stickers,” writes Times contributor Renée Reizman, “is much acrophobic with cracking self-deprecating jokes oregon aligning with a niche fandom. There’s a bumper sticker for everybody. You tin profess your emotion for John Cage, neon creation oregon frogs. You tin state your different car is simply a poem, inquire drivers not to accent retired your canine oregon assertion to beryllium a silly goose.”

Artists, small-business owners and residents are creating highly circumstantial bumper stickers to service their societal circles and gain immoderate laughs. In my cervix of the woods, I’ve clocked “ON A QUIET NIGHT YOU CAN HEAR MY BUICK RUST!” “DREAMS HAPPEN,” and my idiosyncratic favorite, “I’D RATHER BE SLOWLY CONSUMED BY MOSS.” Alone, these stickers mightiness marque you smile, contemplate oregon driblet your jaw. Together, they’re a mosaic of Angelenos’ corporate conscious.

To observe the colorful small decals that support Angelenos rubbernecking connected the road, we asked locals and visitors to stock their favourite bumper stickers. Here’s what they submitted.

THICC DADS WHO VAPE FOR CHRIST

Where did you spot it? “Glendale Boulevard successful Atwater Village.”
What’d you similar astir it? “Made maine halt and laugh.”

— Robert Grenader, Los Feliz

2PMFaun

Where did you spot it? ”101 Northbound adjacent Melrose.”
What’d you similar astir it? “[It was] connected a Honda Prelude. The composer Claude Debussy wrote a celebrated portion called “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. So ... Prelude 2PMFaun. Definitely a classical instrumentalist driving that one.”

— Lee Bridges, Laurel Canyon

Ben Elder’s submission.

(Ben Elder)

YOUR HONOR STUDENT IS MERELY A PAWN IN MY POMERANIAN’S PLOT FOR WORLD DOMINATION

Where did you spot it? “Foothill Boulevard, betwixt Pennsylvania and Lowell [in] La Crescenta”
What’d you similar astir it? “Touché, each you obnoxious parents.”

— Ben Elder, La Crescenta

who needs poetry

Where did you spot it? “North Westdale… On Barry, conscionable southbound of Sardis (near a Whole Foods)”
What’d you similar astir it? “[It was] successful plain black, connected white, without punctuation. It is poetry!

— Dave Kopplin, West L.A.

MY KARMA RAN OVER YOUR DOGMA

What’d you similar astir it? “It says truthful overmuch successful truthful small text.”

— Russ Charvonia, Ventura

David Morrow’s submission.

(David Morrow)

MY SON WAS INMATE OF THE MONTH AT JACKSON COUNTY JAIL

Where did you spot it? “In Lone Pine. The operator said helium was from L.A.”

— David Morrow, Bend, Ore.

Make Orwell Fiction Again

Where did you spot it? “On the 5, conscionable southbound of Magic Mountain.”
What’d you similar astir it? “Made maine laughter ... and proceed to worry. It appeals to the literate.”

— Theo Moreno, Cambria

Katie Purtill’s submission.

(Katie Purtill)

KEEP TOBIAS BLUE

Where did you spot it? Jefferson and Lincoln [in] Playa Vista
What’d you similar astir it? “A niche spoof connected a classical California bumper sticker.”

— Katie Purtill, Playa del Rey

I ❤️ DYING AND AGING

Where did you spot it? “It was parked successful a reddish portion successful beforehand of Maury’s Bagels successful Silver Lake.”
What’d you similar astir it? “I deliberation we tin each subordinate to this a small bit. I besides wonderment what would hap to income of Ozempic if we embraced this thought much fully.”

— Ted Walker, Silver Lake

Roger Pugliese’s submission.

(Roger Pugliese)

DON’T CHANGE TOPANGA LET TOPANGA CHANGE YOU

Where did you spot it? “In Topanga.”
What’d you similar astir it? “First, the bumper sticker was thought of by the Topanga Assn. for a Scenic Community. This enactment has been astir since 1963. It was established to combat disconnected overdevelopment successful the Santa Monica Mountains, specifically successful Topanga. We each successful Topanga recognize Topanga needs to beryllium enjoyed by everyone. People determination present due to the fact that they spot thing that enriches their soul. We wanted to get the connection retired and punctual each wherefore they came present and [to] not bring with them the precise happening they were trying to get distant from. We privation folks to enactment heavy and emotion Topanga for what it offers and not alteration it to suit a much municipality environment.”

— Roger Pugliese, Topanga

Alexis Evanoff’s submission.

(Alexis Evanoff)

SURELY NOT EVERYBODY WAS KUNG FU FIGHTING

Where did you spot it? “I was successful the Valley, astir to marque a near onto Ventura Boulevard. I spell to schoolhouse astatine CSUN, truthful I person the privilege of escaping the Westside regularly.”
What’d you similar astir it? “The opus instantly came to my caput erstwhile I work it, and I laughed retired large successful my car truthful loud, similar a immense dork, and it was fantastic.”

— Alexis Evanoff, West L.A.

bestie, fto maine merge

Where did you spot it? “Palmdale adjacent Antelope Valley Mall”
What’d you similar astir it? “[It was] successful a Lisa Frank benignant of font successful brushed pastel colors. I laughed retired large erstwhile I work it. The saccharine code is truthful passive-aggressive.”

— Polly Drown, Palmdale

I BRACHIATE FOR GIBBONS

Where did you spot it? “West L.A. successful dense traffic.”
What’d you similar astir it? “Cleverness. You spot truthful galore stickers saying I Brake For Squirrels, oregon Garage Sales oregon whatever. Brachiation is utilizing your arms to plaything done the histrion branches, similar gibbons and spider monkeys.”

— Karen Hohenstein, West Hills

John Grimshaw’s submission.

(John Grimshaw)

Rugby Players Eat Their Dead

Where did you spot it? “Seen astatine Foothill Ranch Library, Orange County.”
What’d you similar astir it? “Based connected existent events. College rugby team’s level crashed successful snowy Andes successful 1972. Survivors had small nutrient ... they did person the dormant bodies of household and friends. Of 45 radical aboard, conscionable 16 survived subfreezing nights until rescue 72 days later.”

— John Grimshaw, Lake Forest