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| 'Hollyweed': California's Hollywood sign changed in post-election prank | 'Hollyweed': California's Hollywood sign changed in post-election prank |
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| Los Angeles residents awoke on New Year’s Day to find a prankster had altered the famed Hollywood sign to read “Hollyweed”. | Los Angeles residents awoke on New Year’s Day to find a prankster had altered the famed Hollywood sign to read “Hollyweed”. |
| KABC-TV reported that Los Angeles police had dispatched a unit to investigate the apparent vandalism. | KABC-TV reported that Los Angeles police had dispatched a unit to investigate the apparent vandalism. |
| It quoted a witness, who it showed with two fellow hikers posing for a photo with the revised landmark in the background, as saying the reworded sign was “pretty cool”. | It quoted a witness, who it showed with two fellow hikers posing for a photo with the revised landmark in the background, as saying the reworded sign was “pretty cool”. |
| Someone changed the famed Hollywood sign to read “Hollyweed" https://t.co/dr5pIIJZaL pic.twitter.com/LoWa4rnr7D | Someone changed the famed Hollywood sign to read “Hollyweed" https://t.co/dr5pIIJZaL pic.twitter.com/LoWa4rnr7D |
| Police had also notified the city’s department of general services, whose officers patrol Griffith Park and the area of the rugged Hollywood Hills near the sign. | Police had also notified the city’s department of general services, whose officers patrol Griffith Park and the area of the rugged Hollywood Hills near the sign. |
| In November, California voters approved Proposition 64, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana in the state. Sale and taxation of the drug will begin in 2018. | |
| The Hollywood sign was erected in 1923 and originally said “Hollywoodland”, to advertise a new housing development in the hills above Los Angeles. | The Hollywood sign was erected in 1923 and originally said “Hollywoodland”, to advertise a new housing development in the hills above Los Angeles. |
| It has been altered to say “Hollyweed” before – in 1976, after the passage of a state law relaxing rules concerning marijuana. | It has been altered to say “Hollyweed” before – in 1976, after the passage of a state law relaxing rules concerning marijuana. |
| The same prankster, Danny Finegood, changed it to read “Ollywood” in 1987, in protest over positive treatment of Col Oliver North, the marine at the center of the Iran-Contra scandal; he also made it read “Oil war” in 1990, in protest at the first Gulf war. Finegood died in 2007. | The same prankster, Danny Finegood, changed it to read “Ollywood” in 1987, in protest over positive treatment of Col Oliver North, the marine at the center of the Iran-Contra scandal; he also made it read “Oil war” in 1990, in protest at the first Gulf war. Finegood died in 2007. |