Highway Sign Hacking Hits Miami

You might remember a rash of highway message sign hacking a few months ago,warning of zombies in Austin, Texas and Collinsville, Illinois and of raptors (the prehistoric birds, not the Ford pickup).

Well, now the message is getting racist, or political, or both. Early morning drivers on Palmetto in Miami ran across the above sign and the highway department had to come out and turn it off. Except it kept rebooting. Authorities finally had to turn the sign away from drivers while they worked to erase the memory.

Highway Technologies of Illinois owns the sign and is renting it to the highway department. They say they're using "all their resources to find out how the sign was hacked and who did it."

The likely charge, vandalism. Though someone will undoubtedly try to build a hate crimes charge in there, too.

April Is Drunk Teen In A Cop Car Month

It's a coast-to-coast celebration...last week in Florida, and this time around, Oregon.

The Florida mug shot wins, but the suspect names...well, Nikita Efimov just sounds a lot more mysterious than Tasha Lee Cantrell.

Underage Drinking...Inside A Police Car

Some people just don't hear the wake-up call when it rings.

The young woman above is 19-year old Tasha Lee Cantrell. She was a passenger in a friend's car and when that friend was pulled over, arrested for DUI and the car towed, Tasha Lee asked an Okaloosa County Florida Sheriff's deputy if she could have a ride home. He said yes, she hopped in, and popped open a can of Steel Reserve malt liquor.

Blowing right past the open container issue, the deputy arrested Tasha Lee on underage drinking charges. But from the photo above, she seems okay with that.

Full story at The Smoking Gun.