The iconic ‘Hollywood‘ sign in Los Angeles was vandalised (perfected?) to read ‘Hollyweed‘ in what is an apparent New Year’s Eve prank.
CCTV caught footage of the culprit – dressed all in black – scaling the protective fence surrounding the sign around 3am on New Year’s Day. The Los Angeles Police Department said the man then used giant tarps to change both of the sign’s ‘O’ letters to a lower case ‘e’.
The Hollywood sign was changed to say Hollyweed today pic.twitter.com/NSWmbgz9aP
— Tommy Chong (@tommychong) January 1, 2017
The suspect has not been caught, but if found, would face a misdemeanour trespassing charge.
Tourists began snapping pics of themselves in front of the sign, and managed to make an extremely funny weed-themed prank sound unbearably lame by telling local news station ABC7 that it was “pretty cool”. Ugh.
The prank is likely in response to California legalising the use of recreational weed in the November 2016 election, with sale and taxation of the green stuff to being in 2018.
1976 vs 2017 WHO WORE IT BETTER? #hollyweed pic.twitter.com/hiIQbEundI
— Keegan Allen (@KeeganAllen) January 1, 2017
It was the first in a long, slow process to decriminalise weed, but here we are, four decades later, and the work is almost done.
nothing is stupider than hollyweed
— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) January 1, 2017
Wait no forget it, hollyweed is hilarious
— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) January 1, 2017
2017. It’s gonna be a good year, folks.
Photo: Twitter / @tommychong.
