Highway signs hacked to read "IMPEACH OBAMA"!

[Christians4LessGvt]

 
Channel 2 News - July 5, 2012

By Todd Walker

ANCHORAGE, Alaska
 


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.

Tamara Douglas snapped a picture of the sign message around 6 a.m. Thursday.

"('Impeach Obama') was the only thing that was on the sign," Douglas said. "It was coming in and out and just said that over and over again."

DOT says anyone caught tampering with construction signs could face charges of criminal mischief, which is a Class A misdemeanor.

http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-dot-construction-signs-hacked-reads-impeach-obama-20120705,0,6147533.story

[Plane]

  Well that is a little bit funny.
   I am glad that they didn't cause serious harm by replacing "Left Lane Ends" with " Resume Normal Speed".

[Xavier_Onassis]

It is only slightly funnier than the same slogan on a bumpersticker'

I never use bumperstickers. They serve no useful purpose, and might get your car scratched by some fanatic.

[Plane]

If you go to the Spaceweather website you can get instructions to view the ISS as it passes over, best viewing is at dusk when the station is passing over your position, they have an app there that computes when this condition will occur, you can probly see it twice a week if you know where and when to look.

It looks like a distant mirror flashing in the sun.

Someday spacestations might be bigger , housing factorys , perhaps even citys, these will be easily visible as a shape in the sky.

Structures in space do not need to be substantial to be large , the largest satilite so far was just an inflated baloon.

You could make a billboard like that with a commercial or political slogan legible as the giant shape soared above.

[Xavier_Onassis]

You could make a billboard like that with a commercial or political slogan legible as the giant shape soared above.
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I recall a SF story, I think by Heinlein, about how some conglomerate figured out how to write a Message on the Moon.
It read "Drink Coca-Cola".

Not nearly so amusing as a message in Cyrillic letters that would read "Vote for Vladimir Putin".

Imagine the fun that would give Fox's infotainment gurus

They would have to hire Condi Rice to give the official translation. Poor thing, she must be exhausted after three years of shoe-shopping.