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But it would be wrong

By Steven Leyden Cochrane on January 29th, 2009, 6:29 pm 3 Comments

While it would be highly illegal, potentially unethical, and generally a very bad idea to hijack one of those blinking road signs, either as part of a thoughtful and considered public intervention or simply in the name of free-spirited high jinks (pictured), illustrated instructions for doing precisely that are available for perusal by the curious. [via the heretofore useless-to-me car blog, Jalopnik]

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3 Responses to “But it would be wrong”

1. darren says:

   January 29, 2009 at 9:12 pm

   http://www.archive.org/download/hacktv01/hacktv01.avi

   skip to 23:22 in the video and you will see these guys hack one of those highway signs

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2. Justin says:

   January 29, 2009 at 11:46 pm

   HA! Thanks for posting this Steven, and thanks for the link to the video, Darren. Let it be known that if anyone sees anything like this in Windsor, it will not have come from BCL (though I have to admit, I was one of the curious).

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3. darren says:

   January 29, 2009 at 11:53 pm

   I know BCL and I would never do anything like that too. : ) I just remembered seeing the video years ago and I’m surprised I found it.

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