Walked over a relatively new bridge for the first time today and found this sign on one side of it. My partner and I were both baffled, tell me it's not just us.

by ThePuzzlePirate

25 comments

  1. One person on a horse can cross, or one person on foot, or one person on a bicycle? So one person can’t take both a bicycle and a horse, but I wonder if two people on foot can cross.

  2. I guess it means only one person/bike/horse at a time?

    I doubt it’s official though given the spelling of permitted and ‘confind’

  3. So, you can have either Walkers, Cyclists or Horse-riders at one time on the bridge.

    So if anyone falls off a horse or bike on the bridge, straight to jail.

  4. Single use bridge. I assume it folds up once someone’s crossed it and you’ll have to build another.

  5. It means a a horse riding a bike across wouldn’t be allowed.

  6. But if you take your bike over, then come back for your horse, there’s a danger that the fox will eat the bike… or something.

  7. I think it means only one type of user at a time.

    But I also think it was translated into English by a Tamagotchi that only understands Hungarian.

  8. Wild guess, but could the bridge be a replacement, and this is a recreation of a very old sign for historical interest? (Only use of confind seems to be from the 1600s)

    My guess is that the bridge is too narrow to allow a horse and pedestrian together?

    Alternatively, someone on drugs didn’t pay for spellcheck!

  9. if you’re going to go to the effort of making an sign out of wood, etchings and all….you think you’d double check the spelling eh?

  10. Random spellings and capitals, strange rules, and on a bridge. That’s a troll. Try going over in a group of 3, one walking, one on a bike, one on a horse, it will pop up and demand you pay a fine of gold.

  11. I read it is you can’t mix types of transport, probably because it is too narrow to safely have a horse with a walker, or any other combination. “Confined” would fit that.

  12. It means that there are three groups of people allowed to use the bridge (cyclists, horse riders, pedestrians) but only one of those groups can use it at any given time (it doesn’t mean just the one person can use it as some people have suggested.)

    So you can have pedestrians on the bridge or cyclists or horse riders but not two or three of those categories together.

  16. Someone needed to sort a new sign and got AI to do it. This is the equivalent of a painting of a man with six fingers on one hand and fourteen on the other. Fuck AI.

  17. I’ve seen one of these before.

    ‘Single use’ is the important bit. You’re only allowed to use it once. Try and use it a second time and the troll that lives under it will eat you.

  18. Confined is a typo, should be combined, but I think it just means any one of horse rider, bike rider, or walking person can use it, but not more than one at a time for safety e.g horse being spooked, pedestrian not having room to get out the way of a horse that does something odd, bikes startling horses or causing risk to pedestrians.

    Not great wording mind.

  19. I think it’s to stop the establishment of a BOAT public right of way (Byway Open to All Traffic). It’s a pu lic right of way, but a different level.

  20. Single use suggests to me that it will crumble after you’ve gone across! Stay safe!

  21. It’s to discourage knights on horses and knights on bicycles from dueling.

    Pedestrians with day-old french bread are permitted.

  23. I wonder if it is due to the forces that the different vehicles present on the bridge (Much like wooden floors that prohibit stiletto shoes from walking on them) When a horse crosses a bridge all of its weight and that of the rider is going through the fairly limited area of the horses hooves causing more pressure on the surface of the bridge. When a human walks all of the weight is pressing down through the large area of the feet (unless the human is wearing stilettos in which case all of the weight is presenting itself through the small area in the stiletto heel) . similarly for bicycles, all of the weight is presented through the wheels but over a shorter period of time.

    Maybe it’s something to do with structural loads and how they are presented on the base of the bridge.

  24. Ffs! There is only one thing allowed on the bridge at a time, simple!

    No fox, no grain, no chicken is mentioned!

  25. What part is confusing?

    Either horsey, walky, or bikey.

     Don’t mix. 

    Only horsey = OK.

    Only walky = OK.

    Only bikey = OK.

    Mix horsey, walky, bikey = not on your life my son.

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