07-09-2012, 15:37
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Guerrilla Chief
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Construction Sign Mischief
Someone saw an opportunity ripe for the taking. 
It was a different kind of warning than what motorists are used to seeing around here in summer months...
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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.
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07-09-2012, 17:55
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Rebellion in Alaska......... 
Big Teddy 
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
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07-09-2012, 17:59
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Burma Shave....
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07-10-2012, 18:30
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Very nice.
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07-10-2012, 19:09
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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.
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07-10-2012, 19:20
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Burma Shave....
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PRB
That was a dead givaway,your showing your age with that one...........
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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07-11-2012, 04:55
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Pedro's
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Burma Shave....
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Only 100 more miles to South of the Border....
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07-11-2012, 06:49
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Only 100 more miles to South of the Border.... |
And 400 more Pedro sez signs
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07-11-2012, 10:39
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OMG......I didn't think there were so many of you old farts still around........  Not all of you show you age in your profile.......
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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07-11-2012, 06:41
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Burma Shave....
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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.
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07-12-2012, 17:03
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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.
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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.
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07-13-2012, 06:37
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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.
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Those signs and old gas pumps would be worth a fortune today.
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