Whoa, duuuude! Iconic ‘Hollywood’ sign hacked

Posted by | January 1, 2017 10:30 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly

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Now there’s something you don’t see every day on LA:

Los Angeles residents awoke early Sunday to see that one thing, at least, looked different in the New Year: the Hollywood sign.

Armed with four tarpaulins, a prankster had climbed Mount Lee under the cover of night to edit the iconic landmark, which was changed to “HOLLYWeeD.”

Security footage recorded at 3 a.m. Sunday showed a “lone individual” climbing up the mountain, scaling the sign’s ladders and hanging tarpaulins over the O’s to change them to E’s, said Sgt. Guy Juneau of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Security Services division.

It could have been a New Year’s Eve prank, Juneau said, or the work of “a thrill seeker.”

The surveillance footage showed a man dressed in black, tactical-style gear. One of the tarpaulins was decorated with a peace sign, and another with a heart.


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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

11 responses to Whoa, duuuude! Iconic ‘Hollywood’ sign hacked

  1. labman57 January 1st, 2017 at 22:25

    Hmmm. I hope the pranksters weren’t actually stoned when they modified these 45-ft tall letters on a steep hillside.

    • oldfart January 2nd, 2017 at 16:30

      It would appear that they survived…so far.

  2. William January 1st, 2017 at 23:40

    Here is the https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/52e860f652001d570d21f7bea70bf6fdde5cffd5b6a9a7bacbfeab38243b1799.jpg original

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    • amersham1046 January 2nd, 2017 at 16:04

      named after Hollywood Florida

      • bpollen January 2nd, 2017 at 16:27

        I thought it was because of the Holly Canyon…

    • bpollen January 2nd, 2017 at 16:27

      Originally an ad for a real-estate development.

  3. Budda January 2nd, 2017 at 07:43

    Excellent! Bravo to the prankster!

  4. StoneyCurtisll January 2nd, 2017 at 08:24

    This is not the first time this has happened.
    Way back in the 70’s.

  5. fahvel January 2nd, 2017 at 12:53

    why is an sign like that under surveillance?

  6. amersham1046 January 2nd, 2017 at 16:03

    Left wing pranksters,
    if they were right wingnuts, they would have blown the sign apart

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