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Someone saw an opportunity ripe for the taking. :D
It was a different kind of warning than what motorists are used to seeing around here in summer months...
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.
greenberetTFS
07-09-2012, 17:55
Rebellion in Alaska.........:p
Big Teddy :munchin
BigJimCalhoun
07-10-2012, 19:09
I worked with these signs back between 1991 to 1996 in Massachusetts. We used to keep ours locked and password-protected. Once a sign got into an odd-state and displayed "drug check ahead" on an interstate highway. Evidently some were really upset about the sign's message but none of the old-timers had a key nor the understanding of how to change the sign once at the control panel. I was called in to change the code but if anyone had common-sense, he would have just turned the display screen away from the road.
Something similar happened in New Hampshire back in about 1991/1992 on I-93. It was motorcycle weekend in Laconia/Father's day and a sign was programmed with more of an adult-themed request for the women. The message was custom and not one of the 200 or so pre-programmed ones.
greenberetTFS
07-10-2012, 19:20
Burma Shave....
PRB
That was a dead givaway,your showing your age with that one...........
Big Teddy
SouthernDZ
07-11-2012, 04:55
Burma Shave....
Only 100 more miles to South of the Border....:D
Badger52
07-11-2012, 06:41
Burma Shave....:D
I remember as a little kid travelling thru SW enroute from SoCal to W Tejas. The 102mi between Yuma & Gila Bend nothin' but cactus, rattlers and non-potable water for the radiator's canvas bag, and then, continuing eastward, there was hope - at LAST!
The first sign of an oasis and hope that we'd bed town in NM in time to use the motel's pool.
:lifter
Only 100 more miles to South of the Border....:D
And 400 more Pedro sez signs:D
greenberetTFS
07-11-2012, 10:39
OMG......I didn't think there were so many of you old farts still around........;) :D Not all of you show you age in your profile.......:p
Big Teddy :munchin
I am only fifty and glad to be in company of old farts than with young punks....:D
Badger52
07-11-2012, 11:12
OMG......I didn't think there were so many of you old farts still around........;) :cool: "Old guys know stuff."
theis223
07-12-2012, 12:16
"Old guys know stuff."
This is why the aware young punks shut up and listen to the old farts. Case in point: i bumped into Al Lindner at the ThunderBird Lodge on Rainy Lake last summer. Holy s##t was that cool!
The Thunderbird Inn in Florence SC?
theis223
07-12-2012, 13:01
Negative. It was the Thunder Bird Lodge just outside and east of International Falls, MN. On the southern shore of Rainy Lake.
ZonieDiver
07-12-2012, 17:03
:D
I remember as a little kid travelling thru SW enroute from SoCal to W Tejas. The 102mi between Yuma & Gila Bend nothin' but cactus, rattlers and non-potable water for the radiator's canvas bag, and then, continuing eastward, there was hope - at LAST!
The first sign of an oasis and hope that we'd bed town in NM in time to use the motel's pool.
:lifter
Then you probably saw the numerous bright yellow signs with large red print urging you to stop and see "The Thing" once you passed Tucson, heading toward Lordsburg!
In 1968, some religious person had climbed amongst the large round boulders alongside I-10 near Cochise Stronghold and spray painted - in large, neat letters the words "Jesus Saves". When I drove by the next year some clever wag had added the word "Tinfoil" below it. A hard climb for a laugh... and eternal damnation. I chuckled all the way to Las Cruces.
:D
I remember as a little kid travelling thru SW enroute from SoCal to W Tejas. The 102mi between Yuma & Gila Bend nothin' but cactus, rattlers and non-potable water for the radiator's canvas bag, and then, continuing eastward, there was hope - at LAST!
The first sign of an oasis and hope that we'd bed town in NM in time to use the motel's pool.
:lifter
Those signs and old gas pumps would be worth a fortune today. ;)