You’d think that road side emergency signs are supposed to be used for emergencies. Especially when they’ve been purchased with funds from Homeland Security. Administrators in an Indiana county apparently thought otherwise. These good folks used $300,000 worth of emergency signs to hawk a spaghetti dinner, a fish fry, and a carnival. What, no pork roast? Federal money spent on emergency signs for shindigs. Yummy! Your tax dollars at work . . .

ABC News reports that the public servants of Vermillion County programmed their federally-funded emergency signs to benefit an elementary school and a volunteer fire department, among others.

These events are clearly not emergencies, of course, but was harm done?

It’s not as if someone hacked the emergency signs, just for fun.

Heaven forbid, these folks were authorized to do what they did by the county. They didn’t sneak up on unlocked emergency signs in the middle of the night in order to get away with mischief that paid homage to one of the most important Sci-Fi films of the Fifties . . .