07-09-2012, 15:37
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Alaska
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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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Quiet Professional (RIP)
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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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SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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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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Quiet Professional (RIP)
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Originally Posted by PRB
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, 06:41
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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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07-11-2012, 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, 10:57
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I am only fifty and glad to be in company of old farts than with young punks....
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07-11-2012, 11:12
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Area Commander
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OMG......I didn't think there were so many of you old farts still around........ |
 "Old guys know stuff."
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07-12-2012, 12:16
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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!
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07-12-2012, 12:27
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The Thunderbird Inn in Florence SC?
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07-12-2012, 13:01
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Negative. It was the Thunder Bird Lodge just outside and east of International Falls, MN. On the southern shore of Rainy Lake.
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