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11 Jan 2020, 2:36 pm

Teens who changed a digital billboard to display pornography have been identified by the police.

Police in a Detroit suburb have identified two teenage boys responsible for changing a billboard along an interstate highway to display pornography,according to Auburn hills Lt. Ryan Gagnon.

The teens 16 and 18 jumped a 6 foot fence around a shack underneath the billboard shortly before 11pm,inside the shack was a laptop computer that operated the digital billboard.

The teens accessed the laptop and changed the billboard from advertisements to pornography for drivers on interstate 75 to see.The 16 year old was referred to a juvenile diversion program and the 18 year old was charged with tresspassing.

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11 Jan 2020, 2:39 pm

So THAT'S the origin of the bumper stickers that say "Honk if you're horny!"



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11 Jan 2020, 2:44 pm

While I do not tolerate trespassing, vandalism, and the public display of pornography, I'll give those boys 10 points each for sheer chutzpah!



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11 Jan 2020, 3:06 pm

:lol: :lol: I'm not into porn myself but I couldn't stop laughing at this story,I can just picture people driving by and wondering how porn got onto the billboard,even the cops must have had a chuckle.


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11 Jan 2020, 3:09 pm

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:lol: :lol: I'm not into porn myself but I couldn't stop laughing at this story,I can just picture people driving by and wondering how porn got onto the billboard,even the cops must have had a chuckle.


Did the article give the names of the two boys? I want to do a public record search for their addresses. I want to submit a prank idea for their next venture.



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11 Jan 2020, 3:21 pm

Fnord wrote:
While I do not tolerate trespassing, vandalism, and the public display of pornography, I'll give those boys 10 points each for sheer chutzpah!


I second this notion, and add that I suspect there wasn't very much actual hacking involved. Jumping a fence and finding what I suspect to have been an unlocked laptop does not a hacker duo make.


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11 Jan 2020, 4:27 pm

I wonder how much jail time they would have gotten in a red state.


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11 Jan 2020, 4:31 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
I wonder how much jail time they would have gotten in a red state.


Probably more time for this than for being a serial rapist if done in rep. Shea's area of Washington State.



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11 Jan 2020, 4:45 pm

Bravo5150 wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
:lol: :lol: I'm not into porn myself but I couldn't stop laughing at this story,I can just picture people driving by and wondering how porn got onto the billboard,even the cops must have had a chuckle.


Did the article give the names of the two boys? I want to do a public record search for their addresses. I want to submit a prank idea for their next venture.
No,one is a minor and they didn't say the name of the other.


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11 Jan 2020, 4:56 pm

vermontsavant wrote:
Bravo5150 wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
:lol: :lol: I'm not into porn myself but I couldn't stop laughing at this story,I can just picture people driving by and wondering how porn got onto the billboard,even the cops must have had a chuckle.


Did the article give the names of the two boys? I want to do a public record search for their addresses. I want to submit a prank idea for their next venture.
No,one is a minor and they didn't say the name of the other.


Too bad, I was hoping to atleast write the one who was an adult. I wanted to run by him the idea for the next billboard hijacking to say "For your free copy of the holy Bible call ______(insert phone number to phone sex hotline here)"



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11 Jan 2020, 5:27 pm

Bravo5150 wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
Bravo5150 wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
:lol: :lol: I'm not into porn myself but I couldn't stop laughing at this story,I can just picture people driving by and wondering how porn got onto the billboard,even the cops must have had a chuckle.


Did the article give the names of the two boys? I want to do a public record search for their addresses. I want to submit a prank idea for their next venture.
No,one is a minor and they didn't say the name of the other.


Too bad, I was hoping to atleast write the one who was an adult. I wanted to run by him the idea for the next billboard hijacking to say "For your free copy of the holy Bible call ______(insert phone number to phone sex hotline here)"


DYODW :twisted:



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11 Jan 2020, 5:39 pm

Pics or it didn't happen


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11 Jan 2020, 5:41 pm

EzraS wrote:
Bravo5150 wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
Bravo5150 wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
:lol: :lol: I'm not into porn myself but I couldn't stop laughing at this story,I can just picture people driving by and wondering how porn got onto the billboard,even the cops must have had a chuckle.


Did the article give the names of the two boys? I want to do a public record search for their addresses. I want to submit a prank idea for their next venture.
No,one is a minor and they didn't say the name of the other.


Too bad, I was hoping to atleast write the one who was an adult. I wanted to run by him the idea for the next billboard hijacking to say "For your free copy of the holy Bible call ______(insert phone number to phone sex hotline here)"


DYODW :twisted:


I would if I knew how to do what they did.



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11 Jan 2020, 6:25 pm

Link to CNN Article

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An image from a surveillance camera shows the two suspects involved in hacking a digital billboard control system.
CNN has blurred this image to protect the individual's identity.

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According to police, the two teenage boys, ages 16 and 18, negotiated a 6-foot fence around a small shack underneath the billboard shortly before 11 p.m. on September 28. Inside the shack was a laptop computer that operated the digital billboard.

One of the boys was able access the laptop and changed the billboard so that it was displaying pornography instead of advertisements to drivers on Interstate 75 North, according to police.

Drivers had a tough time staying focused on the road.

"I kind of almost got in an accident" just after the lewd images flashed before him on the road, a driver told CNN affiliate WXYZ. "You could kind of see people started to brake a lot behind me, because I think they were doing the same thing, like a double take."

Auburn Hills police began receiving calls around 11 p.m. that the billboard was displaying graphic images. They reached out to the emergency contact for the company operating the sign, Triple Communications, and the company promptly shut down the sign.



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11 Jan 2020, 7:28 pm

^ Hey I know that dude.



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11 Jan 2020, 7:32 pm

Only teens would get their jollies doing something like this.

However if it's in a conservative christian area then kudos to them :lol: