This walk signal sticker was making the rounds on a lot of blogs months ago, but I was always too lazy to repost it here myself. It was done by a self-proclaimed artist. I’m not sure I understand why people who put up signs like this call themselves artists. I put up weird shit in public all the time and I don’t pretend I’m an artist. I’m comfortable with the fact that I’m immature and a burden on society. Quit pretending that you’re artists, you good-for-nothing sign makers!

Capitocapito posted this gas pump sticker on the PLA Forums this week. I wish I could read what the small print says. By the way, if you don’t regularly check out the PLA Forums, you’re missing out on some good pranks. Go visit them now.

I can’t remember where I got this image, but it made me LOL. I want to recreate a sign similar to this and start slapping it on the door of every 7-Eleven I go to.

Have you got some hilarious unauthorized signs to share with us? Post them in the comments here, or email them to rbcp@signhacker.com and maybe they’ll get featured on this site.

I haven’t hacked a roadsign in MONTHS so I forgot how to do it by now, and I can’t give you advice or instructions on how to do it.

It’s been slightly over a year since I last displayed my amazing new labels for the exercise equipment at my local gym, though I’ve never really quit labeling the machines and taking pictures of them. Recent coverage of Sign Hacker by CNN has motivated me to finally clear out my iPhone of all these pictures and post them. Enjoy!

There’s a giant Aquafina machine in treadmill room, so it seemed only natural to ban other brands

Consume 2,000 calories after burning 200!

I couldn’t think of anything to warn against.

A nod to my favorite movie, Back to the Future

I rarely break this rule, so nobody else should either.

I was listening to some M.C. Frontalot when I printed this one.

You gotta love Weird Al. At this point I don’t care if he makes any more music, just as long as he keeps posting awesome stuff on his Twitter and YouTube.

As a self-confessed drive-texter, I am now convinced I never have to stop at stop signs ever again.

We’ve covered a lot of sign hacking here on Sign Hacker, but a guy named moosebumps has taken it to the next level by dressing up as a hacked road sign for Halloween. But he didn’t just wear a sandwich board that says “ZOMBIES AHEAD” on it, he actually made an electronic sign with a scrolling LED with a panel that opened so you could “hack” him. Check it out:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/moosebumps/4065943006/

From moosebumps’ Flickr page: “I whipped this up Friday afternoon after a costume party invite. It normally says “LANE ENDS MERGE RIGHT” and can be hacked to say “CAUTION! ZOMBIES! AHEAD!!!”

When you open the access panel, the blinking green light indicates normal operation. To hack the sign you must figure out which of six bolts is the key and clamp an alligator clip to it. The light will flash blue quickly and then continue flashing red while the hacked message is displayed. The key bolt is randomly picked each time the hack is disengaged.”

Amazing job, moosebumps!

Oh, as long as we’re talking about hacked road signs, a few weeks ago I made a YouTube video featuring a bunch of hacked road signs, some news footage and a link to signhacker.com. Our own Spessa is responsible for the new “you stupid idiot” sign hack which appears about 25 seconds into the video:

While on a roadtrip to the coast this weekend, I stopped on the side of the road to pick flowers and prance around the field all happy-like while my awesome facebook wife, Spessa, sat at a road sign for about 40 minutes, changing it to this:

“Hack Naked” is a reference to the great PaulDotCom podcast, which talks about security issues every week. The password wasn’t written on the machine like it sometimes is, or one of the default ones, so Spessa brute-forced her way into it, which took about 20 minutes. I presume it took her so long because she was wearing clothes, and not hacking naked. The password ended up being something very obvious.

At most gyms you’ll see a sticker on every machine, asking you to sanitize the machine after you use it. This means you spray some sanitizing solution on a paper towel and use it to wipe all your sweat, mucus and other cooties from the machine. If you’re a germaphobic, you’ll probably want to sanitize it before use too since some people ignore their sanitizing duties. I decided to spice up the stickers on my gym machines using my cheap label gun (pictured left). You can find labeling guns like this at most Targets and Wal-Marts for $20 – $30.

My first label was just a small variation of the regular stickers, implying bodily harm if they didn’t sanitize their machines. It read SANITIZE THIS MACHINE OR ROY WILL HIT YOU. As far as I know there is no Roy working at this particular gym, but I’m sure my message convinced a few extra people to clean up after themselves that day. After two days that one disappeared, obviously by someone who doesn’t think the sanitizing rule applies to them, so I replaced it with a little tough love.

My next sticker addressed the time-honored tradition of staring intently at the girl’s ass in front of you for 45 minutes straight during your workout. To make girls feel more comfortable around the men in the gym, I created a label which urged members to PLEASE STOP STARING AT THAT GIRL’S ASS. As you can see below, I even managed to get a picture of a girl’s ass in the photo.

You know, I may not be the type to adopt highways or volunteer at the animal shelter or help old ladies across the street, but you can’t say I’m not dedicated to my own public service projects such as this one. I know that I’m a shoe-in for Heaven for sure at this point. For my next sticker I decided to bring Spessa in for some help and she suggested that I address the problem with erections at the gym so we came up with ERECTIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED DURING WORKOUT.

After a month of simply addressing the rules at the gym to help make it a better place, I decided that it was time to start helping out with the morale of the people there. My first label read IF YOU RUN FASTER THAN 8MPH YOU ARE A STUD, which lasted for over a week on a machine before being torn off by a member who just didn’t get what we were trying to accomplish. So I replaced it with Spessa’s latest idea of YOUR STINKY SWEAT IS SEXY. That one even made me feel good about my stinky sweat for my 30 minute run.

After a few weeks, I could tell that morale was seriously boosted in all of the members. What better time to remind them of the miracle of fitness with this label.

I’ve been placing these stickers (and others that aren’t really funny enough to bother posting) for several months now. Sometimes I can’t take pictures of them on the machine because the person next to me is keeping too close of an eye on every little move I make. Other times I can’t even discreetly slap the sticker on the machine because of the same reason. The longest lasting sticker so far was the 8MPH STUD, which lasted for an entire week. I’m sure members are taking them home to place in their kitchens and dens to help them feel good about themselves when they’re not at the gym.

I’m at the gym at least 5 days a week, so if you’ve got any good ideas on labels that I should be sticking on the machines, please post them in the comments area. I’m thinking my next project there should be to categorize the weights by placing labels over the numbers, just to give muscleheads that extra needed push.

It’d go something like this…

10 OMG YOU ARE SUCH A WIMP!
20 DON’T STRAIN YOURSELF TOO MUCH THERE, GIRLY!
30 CAN YOU SAY NANCY BOY??
40 SERIOUSLY MAN, PUT A LITTLE MORE EFFORT INTO THIS
50 OKAY NOW WE’RE GETTING SOMEWHERE
60 OKAY PAL, TIME TO LAY OFF THE STEROIDS!
70 HOLY CRAP, YOU COULD TOTALLY BEAT UP THAT GUY OVER THERE

And so on. Maybe you can come up with some better labels too.

One of my favorite sites, Passive Aggressive Notes, featured this drug store sign today which seems fitting for Sign Hacker.

What’s the funniest thing you’ve ever created with this type of sign board? Tell us in the comments!

There’s so many roadsign hacking stories in the mainstream news, on blogs and in podcasts lately that I’m getting of hearing about them at this point, but I had post that Mario sign which I saw on Boing Boing since it’s actually funny and not just doing the same ‘ole Zombie shtick. So kudos to whoever did that one!

Also, here’s a clip of a news story which was feautured on the Fail Blog this morning…