14-06-2025
Longmont road sign ‘hacked' for second time on Nelson
On Sunday, a digital road sign on Nelson Road was hacked to display the message 'BOOBS PART 2,' just two weeks after a sign on the same road was hacked to display the word 'BOOBS,' according to a city of Longmont spokesperson.
The first vulgar message was removed within three days in May. Following the first incident, the city said additional security measures were in place to prevent it from happening again.
The second inappropriate message was removed Sunday.
'We were made aware of the inappropriate message on the sign on Sunday morning, the 8th. The owner of AAA Barricade (Traffic Control Company) was contacted, and they took immediate action and remotely changed the signs within the hour of being notified,' city spokesperson Rogelio Mares wrote in an email to the Times-Call.
As of Friday afternoon, the hacker has still not been identified, according to Mares.
The act is classified as vandalism. These are not the first incidents of their kind in Colorado — an electronic road-construction sign on Boulder's Foothills Parkway in 2011 displayed the message 'zombies ahead.' .
