Klaatu Barada Nikto Road Sign.



From the website:

This was the first time I had attempted a prank like this, so I expected the control box to be locked, and the programming functions password-protected. I was wrong. First of all, the control cabinet had no lock. Swinging open its door, I found a deliciously inviting handheld keypad, then took a wild guess and pushed a button labeled STOP. The display on the control box flashed ENTER PASSWORD. I was about to give up in disgust when I noticed that someone had written the password in large Sharpie lettering above the box.

With only a few minutes of road sign hacking, I had programmed an homage to the 1951 sci-fi film The Day The Earth Stood Still, the phrase that was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from taking over the world.

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Posted on May 11, 2006 at 2:23 am by Alex
Category: 1 Other Neat Things, Pictures



4 Comments to "Klaatu Barada Nikto Road Sign."

  • Dave Rambo
    May 11th, 2006 at 3:29 pm

    Aren’t those also names of races from Star Wars?

  • Alex
    May 11th, 2006 at 6:45 pm

    I remember it from Army of Darkness, but apparently it goes back long before that!

  • Erteiner
    May 12th, 2006 at 6:25 am

    Such a geek prank … Couldn’t write something like “end of road. Turn back” and put the thing in middle of the road??

  • Needcoffee.com
    May 12th, 2006 at 8:51 pm

    Look, Maybe I Didn’t Say Every Tiny Syllable, No…

    A user at Zug has struck at the heart of roadside slackassery by pranking a couple of road signs left up long after the construction they were there for had been completed…
    First of all, the control cabinet had no lock. Swinging open its door, I …

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