Anybody who shares my fascination with the arcana of highway routes, end points, signage and so forth (don’t all y’all raise your hands at once) probably fetched up, as I did, on a brief item in Wednesday’s paper (click here for a fuller version).

It seems that road signs with the numbers 6-6-6 have become a target for thieves, vandals, cultists, or perhaps self-appointed exorcists of the asphalt.