McDonald's 'coming soon' sign 15 METRES high appears in the heart of the Simpson Desert ... but the fast food giant says it doesn't know anything about it
- The sign on a 15-metre-high dune is in view for the surrounding kilometers
- The 'opening soon' sign is fitted with an emergency stash of burgers
- A McDonald's spokesperson claims the sign has 'nothing to do with us'
- Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources will remove sign
A mysterious sign has surfaced in the heart of the largest sand dune desert in the world, leaving passers by stumped.
Halfway along the most prominent road that crosses the iconic Simpson Desert Conservation Park, a McDonald's sign fitted with an emergency stash of burgers has appeared on top of a 15-metre-high sand dune.
In plain view for kilometres in every direction, the sign seems to indicate the world's largest fast food chain is opening shop in the renowned desert-but the company claims otherwise, reports ABC.
A mysterious McDonald's 'opening soon' sign has surfaced in the heart of the iconic Simpson Desert
McDonald's spokesman Chris Grant said the inexplicable sign posed as an utter mystery to the company.
'This one has us all intrigued…I can assure you it is nothing to with us. The font and the style used on the sign is not consistent with our branding and it serves us no purpose.'
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The base of the sign contains a bag of burgers within a glass case, suggesting the person behind the apparent hoax has invested substantial time and effort.
'It's beyond us why anyone would go the time and effort to install a sign like this,' Mr Grant said.
Mystery: Appearing on top of a 15-metre-high sand dune, the sign is in plain view for kilometres in every direction
The base of the sign contains a bag of burgers within a glass case, suggesting the person behind the apparent hoax has invested substantial time and effort
It appears the sign will not be around for long, with South Australian Environmental Minister Ian Hunter saying The Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources staff are currently looking to remove it.
In 1998, a 4.2-kilometre geoglyph appeared on a swathe of land west of Marree, a small town in the north of South Australia.
Portraying an Indigenous Australian man throwing a boomerang, the carving was visible from the air for over a decade.
It remains a mystery who constructed the geoglyph and why, indicating the McDonalds sign may never be expounded.
Th South Australian Environmental Minister Ian Hunter saying The Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources staff are currently looking to remove the mysterious sign
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