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TUCSON | Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:56am EST

TUCSON (Reuters) - Arizona drivers were warned of the undead roaming a desert highway near Tucson over the weekend, after a suspected prankster tampered with an electronic road sign, police and news media said.

Someone without a good grasp of spelling reprogrammed a digital road sign on a highway near Marana, northwest of Tucson, to read "Caaution Zombies ahead!," the Arizona Daily Star newspaper reported on Monday.

Marana Police Department said it appeared to be a practical joke.

"We didn't get any complaints or any other problems in the area... (and) no reports of zombies," Sergeant Chris Warren told Reuters.

"Sometimes those boxes are just left open and if somebody knows how to do it they can just go over to it, open it up and just start typing."

(Reporting by Tim Gaynor, editing by Jerry Norton)
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sandramarusa2 wrote:
my friends and i just did the same thing in berkeley!
people thought we were really funny acting like zombies. we even caught it on video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akMmhfRRgqg

Nov 16, 2010 1:20pm EST  --  Report as abuse
al_frank2000 wrote:
Not really “news”. It was first done in Austin Tx in January 2009: http://www.aolnews.com/story/zombie-road-signs-attack-austin-texas/322482

Nov 18, 2010 2:38am EST  --  Report as abuse
al_frank2000 wrote:
First done in Austin, TX. in Jan 2009.

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