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Hey DC-area commuters, help us out! We hear that two of them roadside “Expect delays now until forever due to construction”-type electronical signs were HACKED by HAXXORS, and displayed vulgar words to drivers this morning. (The signs are on the Virginia side of the Key Bridge and on eastbound Hain Bridge Road at the George Washington Memorial Parkway.) Here is the question: What were the naughty words? Because your local Fox News refused to show anything other than the mysterious word “MUDKIPZ!”. [MyFoxDC]
Don’t mind me, just following directions.
Cannot be worse than “Speed Hump Ahead.”
putting that stimulus money to work
Chain.
I hope they warned you of dragons ahead.
How can I get one of these signs to portray anal sex and display the word “DETOUR”…?
Mudkips. Awesome. Only thing missing would be ‘9000′ above ‘Mudkips’.
We will never forgive.
We will never forget.
HUMPH!
Interwebz: proving the news actually isn’t news.
(It’s 4chan memes, kids)
Considering it’s Faux, the sign probably said “Single Payer Healthcare.”
the urban dictionary entry on mudkipz appears to have been written by Wonkette, so that was no help. But this certainly looks promising:
http://vimeo.com/davidmudkipz
magic titty: Enter the secret Haxxor code: EnS1gn N00b
Wrong place to look, Jasper. Try encyclopediadramatica.com/Mudkips.
oops. Link FAIL. encyclopediadramatica.com/Mudkips
MUDKIPZ?! Oh no, it’s the secret signal! This is a job for . . . Captain Mudkipz!
[Shouts "MUDKIPZ!", tears off clothes, leaps to open window, and falls to pavement, accidentally crushing 40-Piece Lug Wrench Set Palin.]
LittlePig: Error 404.
If these comments become any more annoying, I’m going to put them on traffic signs.
a non-fuzzed-out picture of the sign from today is posted on http://www.dcrtv.com or, directly: http://www.dcrtv.com/wtopx.jpg
fox news herd u liek mudkipz
4chan scares me. hold me.
Reminds me of when I used to get my dad’s Texas Instruments calculator to spell “Shell Oil” by entering 71077345 and holding it upside down.
TRUKNUTZ XING
fox herd mudkipz liek a/s/l. Also.
It’s about time Project Mayhem finally broke ground.
Thank you Joe’s spleen! Thank you Barack’s smirking revenge!
mudkipz keep your trucknutz dry when you go through puddles. well duh
STOP
(the war)
would be vulgar to Fox News.
BadKitty: /b/ afraid /b/ very afraid
boring missionary-style ahead! where’s the pizzaz!?
THIS IS ACTUALLY TRUE:
The reason these signs are so easy to haxxor is because the crews that set them up typically don’t lock control panel door that allows access to the message input device (keyboard) since they always lose the key. The system is supposed to be password protected, but the password is often left as the factory (e.g. government) preset, like “USDT2009″ or something.
So, if any of you unemployed, illiterate, newfags wanna wreak some 8-bit havoc, /b/ my guest.
We have signs in chicago that say “speed control hump” which is clearly an allusion to some kinda librul tantricky ferriner type secks. prolly buttsecks.
scotty: Oh. I was wrong.
MUDKIPZ is, I believe, the Martian word for BUTTSECKS.
So what? Someone published words that everyone on the roads of Northern Va. are thinking and verbalizing. If only we could have this happen in LA. All our boards tell us is that from the 101/134 split it’s only 25 minutes to downtown. Of course it’s really 45 minutes. Otherwise they post “Amber” alerts, telling us to look out for a certain 1993 Dodge mini van with CA plates. Which usually turns out to be the crappy ex-husband trying to run to Mexico with the kids because of a custody dispute.
C’mon, any schmo knows that “mudkipz” is Yiddish for “genital smegma.”
I can tell you for sure that one of the words was iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Oh damn.
PC LOAD LETTER
FormerDCite: Someone published words that everyone on the roads of Northern Va. are thinking and verbalizing.
I had no idea the taco situation was so bad in northern VA. Or is fucktaco some kind of Virginian sex act?
magic titty: Mine shall read, EXIT ONLY!
Anonymous Delivers.
TJBeck: Naga…Naga…Not gonna work here anymore.
Not that I’d ever suggest or condone such a thing, but here’s detailed instructions on how to change the text on these signs. You, know, in case of a zombie emergency or something.
http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/274/48/
I think the last line says “BALLSACK”.
Why? Only MUDKIPZ knows for sure.
qaf: I thought “fucktaco” was a reference to the metaphorical “pink taco.”
Wonkette’s former fellow serfs on the Gawker plantation, the guys at jalopnik, have been on the leading edge of organized road sign hacks:
http://jalopnik.com/5148528/texas-road-signs-hacked-warn-of-british-invasion
Who’s the greatest mudskipper of them all?
Who can skip thru the mud with the greatest of ease?
What kind of wonderful guy?
Who can crawl like a dog without scraping his knees?
Who’s got seg-ment-ed eyes?
It’s Muddy Mud-Skipper!
It’s Muddy!
Mud-Skipper
It’s the Muddy!
Mm-ud Ski-pper show!!
Guppy06: ‘Fraid I’ve never had a fish taco, even though it’s the specialty of the Taco del Mar chain around here.
Or it could refer to Cmdr Taco, head honcho of /. — maybe he’s pissed off 4chan.
Sara, were tou thinking that wonkette commenters actually have jobs and commute and stuff like normal adults? That’s cute, and so so naive.
Mudkipz are to 4chan as trucknutz are to Wonkette.
The ALL CAPS font of those signs really piss me off. Can anyone change it to a lower case (but a sans-serif typeface)