If the vandals (assuming they are taxpayers) knew how much their spray painting activities were costing them they might wonder if it was really worth the effort.
The State will replace the sign at taxpayer's expense.
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Many years ago I worked for the highways department when some vandals were operating in the small town of Melrose about 70 kilometres away. Every weekend the vandals would lift the white posts out of the ground and put them back in the holes upside down. You can see a couple of those white posts in this photo:
The vandals were actually causing a hazard because the white posts had safety reflectors (red on one side, white on the other) designed to help motorists when driving at night. Also, if somebody had become involved in an accident, they could blame the highways department and sue for damages, so the problem had to be fixed as soon as possible.
So every Monday morning my roadworks team (three of us) climbed into our truck and drove 70 kilometres to Melrose, and travelled from one side of town to other, turning all of the posts right way up. Then we'd have to drive maybe 50 kilometres back towards Port Augusta before we finally got started on the work we were really supposed to be doing.
This went on for months and months. The vandals probably thought it was great fun, but if they were taxpayers it was costing them hundreds of dollars a week, every week, for months and months!
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