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-Short Attention Span Theater-
DOT Construction Signs Hacked To Read 'Impeach Obama'
2012-07-08
Several electronic road construction signs around Anchorage were hacked late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, according to the state Department of Transportation.

Signs that normally display closure and detour information, like the one on Minnesota Drive near 100th Avenue, were changed to read “Impeach Obama.” That particular sign wasn’t fixed until sometime between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. Thursday.

It happened because DOT says it doesn't lock the boxes on the signs that hold the message control pad.

Construction managers say sign-hacking has never happened before, so they never thought to lock the boxes.

DOT says that changed this morning, and now all of them will be locked.

“I'm sure somebody thought it was a pretty funny joke but we try to convey a lot of important information with these signs,” said Tim Croghan, a regional construction engineer for DOT.
Seems important to me ....
Tamara Douglas snapped a picture of the sign message around 6 a.m. Thursday.
Neither Tim Croghan nor the reporter who put this piece together do any homework. Click on the graphic and read it. :-)
Posted by:gorb

#5  Abu, that's a gutsy pilot - he may get his licence pulled for that.
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-07-08 15:09  

#4  I went to the Del Mar Fair last week, aka the Southern California Exposition. It is a really big deal in these parts with thousands of people in attendance every day. Thousands upon thousands. Well, while I was there, somebody had hired an airplane to tow a banner over the beach where everybody could see it and it read:

IMPEACH OBAMA - NO DICTATORS
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2012-07-08 14:14  

#3  Go to Risks-Digest and Google:

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.91.html#subj2 (Moscow signs)

http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2009-February/004351.html (Austin, TX zombie warning)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/09/road-sign-hacked-to-slur-trayvon_n_1412688.html (Michigan, Trayvon Martin)

http://jalopnik.com/5824750/hacked-electric-road-sign-warns-of-hammertime (Portland, OR, M.C. Hammer)

and many others.

Posted by: Eric Jablow   2012-07-08 10:47  

#2  DAMN, just HOW do they do it. (I want to spread the info to ALL)
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-07-08 01:16  

#1  Construction managers say sign-hacking has never happened before, so they never thought to lock the boxes.

We've never experienced anything quite like Obama before either.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-07-08 00:49  

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