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Commuters in suburban Washington, DC, are the latest victims of electronic road sign hacking: Drivers approaching a one-lane bridge faced an inquiry about their choice of underwear. The news crew footage below recorded few affirmations; take that as you will. More »
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Spotted near that ultimate source of Christmas cheer, Washington DC, by reader Bailey, this hacked road sign brings a message likely to disturb more commuters than even zombie apocalypse warnings. If Christmas doesn't come from a store then how do you show your car that you love it? More »
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We have repeatedly warned you not to hack electronic road signs. Now some free-spirited Portland, Ore., natives have hacked one to warn of impending Hammertime. More »
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Fans of Jalopnik and Bill Caswell, our indomitable Hollywood-bound $500 Craigslist rally car driver, decided yet again not to listen to our pleas against hacking electronic road signs, hacking a sign at this weekend's Pikes Peak race. More »
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Two-and-a-half years ago we published a handy guide on how to hack an electronic road sign. Since then, America has found itself drowning in a sea of zombie warnings — and Jalopnik has become the unofficial whipping boy of the highway Lite-brite hacking community. More »
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How do you furnish your shack made of road signs? Furniture made from the same. This short orange shelf would look great in the foyer. More »
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In parts of the world where you can get paid for collecting scrap metal, road signs are major targets of theft, but not in quite the same way as in South Africa, where this photo shows a house made of nothing but motorways and arrows. The practice makes it easy for you to find your home—where you will be very lonely, your visitors driving around in endless, confused circles. More »
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This video from Russia (skip ahead ten seconds) shows just how ambivalent drivers to road signs. So much so that a guy has to stand out in front of a do-not-enter sign to prevent people from driving into oncoming traffic. More »
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We're running out of ways to tell you NOT to hack electronic road signs, but after some recent unpleasantness we're grateful the quality's going up. South Carolina has hunters, zombies, and tanks… oh my! More »
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We've been clear in our insistence that you please NOT hack electronic road signs, but have been impressed by some of the cleverness of readers not listening. Like hackers in Houston writing Internet drivel on a construction sign. More »
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According to these road signs suggested by a Swiss motoring magazine in 1923, happy snails and iron giants were not uncommon occurences on Switzerland’s alpine roads. (via The Rag Bag) More »
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A South Bend, Indiana public schools promotional billboard espousing the system's good attributes was accidentally misprinted. The critical "L" was left from the word "public" and thus undermined the entire thrust of the message. Photo credit Lee MacMillan [SouthBendTribune] More »
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You'd think as a road painter the one thing you'd never want to screw up is the "SCHOOL" road marking. Greensboro, North Carolina painters had no such concern when they laid down "SHCOOL." [Metro] (Photo credit: AP) More »
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Get to work on time? Not if you just sit there reading hacked road signs. Pay attention to the road! [CollegeHumor] More »
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A Pennsylvania DOT sign warned drivers of potential hazards on Tuesday. Clever hackers or unusually informative highway crews? You be the judge. [Centre Daily] More »
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Pranksters in Wisconsin once again ignored our continuous and fervent requests to not hack road signs. This time there's no confusing political message, just the lyrical poetry of Detroit garage disco rock stars Electric Six. More »
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CNN's Jeanne Moos properly quotes Jalopnik as experts on not hacking road signs in a story today about the "No Latinos, No Tacos" hack. More importantly, they reference the commenter debate over the real meaning of the sign! More »
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Someone in the Miami, Florida area decided to use our instructions for hacking road signs to send the message "No Latinos, No Tacos" instead of warning people about zombies. More »
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Either McDonald's is finally admitting where they get their meat from or "Angus" is a harder word to spell than we realized. One more shot below the jump. More »
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No one knows for sure if this "Attenzione Prostitute" sign in Treviso, Italy is warning motorists or trying to encourage more business for the busty, purse-waving ladies of the night. (Photo Credit: Adam Crowe via Carscoop, Telegraph) More »
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A digital graffiti artist modified this I76 freeway sign in Philadelphia with a combo guide for Street Fighter character Ryu's new Hoboken attack. Too bad it's fake, I-76 goes towards boring old Atlantic City. More »
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The bulk of graffiti is just mindless tagging for the sake of tagging and though pretty at times, it's also pretty boring. When graffiti is clever it's far more enjoyable. For example: this stop sign ironically inked. [Infrastructurist] More »
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We've told you over and over again not to hack electronic road signs for comedic purposes, but some Australians have anyway. Apparently they don't find Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's policies too agreeable, leaving the message "Kevin Rudd Sucks." More »
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Rogue milk cows must be a great danger to tiny cars, so beware any bovine suspiciously eyeballing your tiny car and hungrily licking its lips. [Imgur] More »
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If you see this sign, be very careful, somewhere ahead your car may violate the laws of physics. [McMillan] More »
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According to some traffic experts, "Nanny State" traffic lights and road signs don't make us safer. Instead, making our streets deliberately "naked" of speed bumps, chicanes and signs will make drivers more cautious. More »
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This deer crossing sign, spotted via Google Street View in Vancouver, BC, Canada, doesn't seem quite right. We can't exactly put our finger on it. Everything is spelled correctly, and there aren't any grammar issues, but something big seems off. More »
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We've repeatedly told you not to hack road signs, but you people never listen. Only this time you're professing your love for stuff like a "f**k taco," "b**l sack," and "mudkipz." Whatever those are. More »
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We didn't tell you specifically not to hack traffic signs to say "New York Is Dying." Are you going to make us spell out each and every thing you shouldn't be hacking signs to say? More »
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Washington State's Department of Transportation wants people to stop monkeying with their road signs. Haven't we been telling you this from the start? Press release below. More »
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The "how to hack road signs" story's become a bit of a meme, with Jalopnik sitting at the center of the mainstream-media-maelstrom. We guess being "the authority" explains why the AP called yesterday. [Yahoo, MSN] More »
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DO NOT under any circumstances run around hacking into electronic road signs using the information contained in this step-by-step guide of how to transmit hilarious messages to passing motorists. More »
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What were road commissions thinking when they passed some street names? While we've certainly seen some hilarious ones, these are the 32 best street signs in the world. Just to help brighten your day. More »
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The Lookout Mountain exit on I-70 needed a new sign, and the Colorado Department of Transportation obliged... with one that read "Lookout Mountian." Rather than face the embarrassment of such a gaffe, the CDOT covered the sign with a tarp until a new one could be made (cost to taxpayers: $1,000). [9News.com] More »
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We're not exactly sure what this sign really means — does it mean we should watch out for some kind of super moose that can destroy cars just by breathing on them? Maybe there's an undead moose with a hole in his head from some moose-hunter that's sniffing around demolished cars sitting on the side of the road looking for fresh brains? Whatever it may be, we're really confused. [via Culture Garage] More »
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