This is hilarious!

[ducklite]

Especially the last bit...
(From the Orlando Sentinel)

The electronic sign on the side of Interstate 4 is supposed to warn motorists of an upcoming exit.

This weekend, someone reprogrammed it with a slightly different message: "NASCAR sucks. Go home."

Florida Department of Transportation officials said a prankster with the right kind of keyboard and a password changed the sign this weekend as hundreds of thousands of race fans poured into the area.

The sign -- a 7-by-10-foot movable message board -- was posted near the Saxon Boulevard exit by the eastbound lanes, DOT spokesman Steve Homan said. An employee noticed the unauthorized message late Saturday night. By Sunday morning, the sign was switched off.

Homan said employees checked to see whether the locked box that houses the sign's electronic guts was pried open. It turned out to be unlocked, but someone still needed the correct keyboard and password, which is available to highway contractors, consultants and DOT employees.

"It was clearly someone that was familiar with that operation," Homan said, though he said DOT would not try to find the culprit. "There are just people that are inclined to use our means of communicating, I guess."

It's the first time Homan has encountered such a prank but not the first time the DOT used one of its signs to send a non-transportation message.

Several years ago, alarmed motorists called highway officials to report that cows grazing in a marshy area near the I-4 bridge were drowning.

The cattle were just sinking a little in the soft pasture, so DOT workers programmed a sign to read: "The cow is OK."

Anne

 

[Steffi]

 

[Goofyluver]

 

[DisneyGirl4188]

 

[TinkerTracy]

That's GREAT!

 

[Cindyluwho]

"The cow is OK"
That IS priceless!!

 

[ducklite]

I'm still giggling about the "drowning cows."

Can you imagine being a 9-1-1 operator getting a call about a drowning cow?

Anne

 

[Virgo10]

I've looked every where to see if someone took a picture of The Cow Is OK sign. No luck yet.

 

[MushyMushy]

That's what I love to see -- a nice harmless prank!

 

[Rafiki Rafiki Rafiki]

very, very funny!

 

[What the Heck]

"The cow is OK"
That IS priceless!!

My favorite part as well.

 

[ZPT1022]

 

[Luckymommyx2]

OMG that is soooo funny!!

 

[jonestavern]

Thanks Anne! I really needed a laugh!

Jean

 

[tracy51]

Okay, I guess I need to give my dad a call and find out what's up. He works for the Florida Department of Transportation. Sounds like something he would have done when he was younger

 

[sugarpie]

I think I'd pee myself if I saw "the cow is o.k."

NASCAR does suck so I don't see what's so funny there.

 

[horseshowmom]

"The cow is OK"
That IS priceless!!

 

[leighe]

The drowning cows are the best part of the whole story!

 

[ducklite]

I had to come back to read the last two sentences again, because they make me giggle, snort, and guffaw all at once!

This is honestly a story that has had me laughing since I heard about it on the radio this morning. Everybody who I've sent the link to has been in stitches over it as well!

Anne

 

[Mickey527]

Someone did that in CT a few years ago but they put in expletives. I thought it was funny what they wrote about the state, but I pay taxes too.
Peggie