When VDOT wouldn't lower the speed limit on a Cape Charles road, one Northampton Co. man took things into his own hands.

After speeders on Townfield Drive ran over two of Granville Hogg's lambs, he asked for the speed limit to be lowered from 55 miles per hour, to 35. When VDOT declined the request, he bought some very realistic speed limit signs and posted them along the road.

"They couldn't get the job done, so I said, 'Okay, if you can't get the job done, I'll give you a little help,'" said Hogg. "I didn't want some amateurish looking sign saying it's 35 miles per hour. I wanted it to be professional looking."

The signs were so professional looking that state troopers starting writing tickets because of them.

"I thought it was fantastic," said neighbor Heather Travis. "I didn't even know Granville was the one who put them up."

It took two years for the secret of the sign's origins to come out, and when it did, officials told Hogg to take down his signs or face felony charges.

"I may have been legally wrong. Morally, ethically, I believe I'm 100 percent correct," said Hogg.

He's now taking his fight to the county, and even though his speed limit signs are laying behind his barn right now, he hopes they'll soon be back up on Townfield Drive, protecting the animals and children of his growing neighborhood.