Anyone and everyone who knows me personally knows that my love of the
zombie runs deep and true. So how excited was I when I saw this news
article pop-up yesterday from Austin, Texas?
Zombie Road Signs Attack Austin!
>>>(Jan.
29) – The Austin, Texas, commute turned surreal this week after hackers
replaced official traffic warnings on digital signs with some of their
own.
"Zombies ahead! Run for your lives!" read one altered sign, according to KXAN in Austin.
The
pranksters apparently cut the padlocks that guard the computers on each
individual sign, the local media reported, and hacked the computer
password. The new signs went up Monday morning. No zombies were
actually sighted. The most obvious problem seemed to be rubber-necking
drivers slowing down to photograph the fright-fest warnings. 
The hackers didn't make fixes easy for officials, either. The Dallas Morning News reported that after changing the signs, they changed the passwords, too.
The
city had to wait several hours until the manufacturer reset the
passwords before the warnings could be changed.<<< Ha ha ha! This brightened my day considerably. The article went on to say this was a misdemeanor crime and blah blah blah but come on, no one got hurt, no car accidents, it made people laugh. And it's not like crappy graffiti that can't be removed or breaking into people's cars and stealing their stuff {which has happened to me a few times and it is NOT fun}.
I don't know, this kinda just makes me want to go visit Austin.
UPDATE YOUR BLOG WOMAN!!! Mushy, I'm sad you never update your blog anymore.... it's not fair to your loving readers missy.
Posted by: me | March 25, 2009 at 02:44 PM