According to KCBD-TV, sign hackers struck the hub city, changing a road sign to state "OMG THE BRITISH R COMING, THEy R WATCHING YOU" in what we can only think is a response to what we told you not to write in our very first post on road sign hacking. This joins incidents in Washington, Illinois, Indiana pretty much anywhere people can find unsecured road signs.

[KCBD-TV]

If this sign spotted near Bellevue, WA is to be believed, our plea to readers not to hack electronic road signs and write "Jalopnik Rulez!" and "Zombies Droolz!" has fallen upon deaf ears. Although we guess maybe we didn't make it clear enough that it also included alternate spellings.

Our gallery of Jalopnik-flavored hacked electronic road signs below, and the complete hacked road sign gallery below that. (Hat tip to Ryan, Bruce!)

Remember kids, don't try this at home!

KSDK, a news station in St. Louis, is reporting on the newest prank to sweep the nation. Joe Gasaway of the Illinois Department of Transportation has said that someone changed the IDOT traffic sign on southbound I-255 at Highway 162 to say "daily lane closers [sic], due to zombies" sometime this morning. We're just happy they're not Velociraptors. We hear those things can jump.

In KSDK's report, they say that Gasaway didn't know who changed the signs, but we've got a clue. Apparently electronic sign-hacking Jalopnik readers are sweeping the nation faster than we could have ever imagined. Please! We implore you — do not hack any signs to say "Jalopnik Rulez! Zombies Droolz!" and then take a picture of it and send it in to us. Don't do it! (Hat tip to Alex!)

[via KSDK]

The hacked electronic road sign video from the Today Show was apparently based on the "top story" from Austin NBC-affiliate KXAN proves America also has slow news days, though decidedly more entertaining ones.

Not surprisingly, the hacking occurred at an intersection within a few blocks of the University of Texas at Austin and right down the street from where we used to live. In fact, we shared a room with a Computer Science major capable of just such a prank... David? Was this you? We recommend you run for it because according to the City of Austin Department of Safety police are after you!

Being full of bored college students and undergoing perpetual road construction, Austin is a prime target for this kind of pranksterism. The best part of the video is at the end when the reporter mentions the most disturbing part of the story is the existence of websites explaining how to do this sort of hack.

We think the most disturbing part is the people who might attack the transients on The Drag thinking they are zombies as opposed to just stoned.

NBC's Today Show is all over the hacking electronic road signs story, saying officials in Texas are now "scrambling" to protect electronic road signs from the threat of hackers trying to warn us about the hordes of zombies ahead. We told you yesterday not to play with the electronic road signs.

Still, we're proud of you guys — mostly because it's the first time we've seen the zombie meme making it to the mainstream media. And the Today Show no less. Yay internets!

While we'd have opted for something more livable, like the Steeltruck 4X4, which includes a kitchen and comfortable beds, we're guessing that everyone here would rather be safe than comfortable. The Sisu also has the advantage of being amphibious, something only the Dobbertin Surface Orbiter can also claim. This has us thinking about ways we could convert the Sisu to make it a bit more amenable to daily life (you don't want to sleep outside with radioactive mutants lurking about). Looks like there is just enough room in there for an exercise bike and a full-sized bed to me.