Sometimes, Sherrie Lynn Palmer can’t even walk her dogs down her street without vehicles beeping at her, mistaking her for a prostitute. So she decided to act.

After watching drug dealers and prostitutes doing business on the street and finding hypodermic needles and condoms left in their yard, she and Russ Palmer have posted a sign outside their home: “No Ho Zone.”

“We don’t want it here,” said Sherrie Lynn Palmer, a 48-year-old budding artist who made the sign featuring drawings of eyes watching the street and a dog chasing a prostitute.

“There’s a lot of really good people around here. I don’t want to sit here and let the crime fester. … It all starts with the prostitutes. It brings everything else.”

Russ Palmer, 57, got the idea for the slogan after seeing a report on the ozone level. [source]