I'm Leslie Foster so people keep hanging
these vulgar signs over the Capitol
Beltway and we're talking very vulgar
sounds signs our team has heard from so
many of our neighbors who say they
simply cannot believe what they are
seeing yeah so they want to know can
anything be done about this our John
Henry starts us off from the news room
tonight John hey I'm just back from
talking to both Republicans and
Democrats who said they find these signs
a top of Beltway overpass in Montgomery
County disgusting we blurred the signs
out but they include curse words and
sexually graphic language directed at
both President Joe Biden and
Democrats the state of Maryland says
more than 200,000 people travel this
stretch of the Beltway under the Bradley
Boulevard overpass every day and
recently activity at top that overpass
has made their commutes different to say
the least neighbors aren't crazy about
it it's uh very distracting because of
the language that they're using there's
also all the honking it brings from
drivers reacting to the signs hey I
support everybody's right to do it I
just kind of wish it wasn't necessarily
the most residential of areas as for the
signholders themselves the country's
headed in the wrong direction they admit
they're trying to get attention make it
funny it's something you don't see every
day so people will actually share it on
Facebook but you may be curious is this
even legal well let's
verify our sources Maryland State Police
and Maryland carry law professor Mark
Graber please say obsin laws are vague
and right now there's concern about
infringing on anyone's First Amendment
rights Professor Graber asked there's no
Maryland law saying this is illegal but
that could always change I'm fairly
confident they could pass a law that
said no sign over the overpass
overpasses are not what's known as
public forum where the public
traditionally has a right to
speak now Graber also says lawmakers
could probably make a good argument the
signs distract drivers as well Leslie
yeah they are distracting and it's just
another sign that our political
discourse has gone way off track all
right John thank you