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Road Sign Fail


Submitted by Nik S

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  1. velvet says:

    Zombies!!! ARGH!!!

  2. JasonK says:

    Saw it on youtube already. Failz…

  3. p says:

    That’s a road sign win in my book.

  4. Greg says:

    Yawn. Even Lyndsey’s not offering anything interesting here.

  5. Dec says:

    Zombies just want a hug

  6. fred says:

    eleventh

  7. Edmond Dantes says:

    Hacker win.

  8. TheWarWolf says:

    ROFL! I actually saw this, i live in austin. It was the coolest thing ever. Who ever did that deserves a trophy!

    • WhoaNellie says:

      Or a trollis.
      Hell, a herd of trollises…

    • Wolf_Demon says:

      Indeed! I present this giant, solid win trophy, to the hackers (1337 H4×0r5) that altered the road sign, for such an epic win!

      • Grumpy Curmudgeon says:

        You fool! Do you not realise that those words are actually a magic spell that calls down a horde of Nazi zombies to your house?

        Zombie Nazis really, really hate leet-speek (note how I carefully mis-spelled that.)

    • jonFACE says:

      Well maybe they just deserve a pizza…

    • Drafthouse Fan says:

      Me too! I’m so glad I got a chance to see it before they took it down. The zombie-themed warning was definitely the best one they could have come up with. I saw another hacking recently that followed the one here in Austin. I forgot where it was, but it said something about “raptors ahead.”

      Zombies > Dinosaurs

      Hands down.

  9. raiseer says:

    tv is so fucking retarded!
    OMG what a horrible act. i think it’s kind of a hate-crime against drivers!!!!!

  10. K-Dawg says:

    See, what gets me on this is that it was the top story of the night!

  11. Wastewheeler says:

    How’s that a fail? It’s a hacking win

  12. cec says:

    “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available.”

    Youtube fail. I have seen the zombie thing before though. Awesome.

  13. Doomgray says:

    This is really your top story?

  14. Rasta says:

    Top Story FAIL.

  15. Jenni says:

    Top story fail, hacking win!

  16. berg says:

    Hacking win, you bet! It’s like the municipal version of “culture jamming”!

  17. sdfg says:

    That is such win.

  18. Mouserz says:

    How is this fail?

  19. Jose says:

    More like a win to me too =D

  20. somedudenamedJ says:

    Well I know I would appreciate it if someone told me there were nazi zombies around.

  21. kmd says:

    The fail is anyone who actually got upset by this prank.

  22. sweethooligan says:

    Get me my BOOOOOOOMstick

  23. Sergio says:

    That’s not a Fail, it’s a Zombie Win!

  24. Cervantes says:

    Road sign FAIL?!?! This is an EPIC WIN!!!

  25. ZombieLeader says:

    You know, we really hate those hackers! So often we get thousands of brains lined up on the highways and then we just tear into them. It’s an all you can eat buffet, really.

    And now these hackers come along and warn everyone. Well, we aren’t going to stand for it any longer. All you IT security geniuses, Bill Gates I am looking at you, get your act together! Prevent zombie starvation.

    Save the Zombies!

  26. some 1 no 1 knows says:

    Total Win!!

  27. ... says:

    wait, does anyone understand the meaning of nazi zombies? google nazi zombies call of duty world at war. clearly these hackers were just video game fanatics. brilliant video game fanatics.

  28. AE says:

    Totally a win.

  29. RankMyTyping says:

    Yeah it’s all fun and games until you get attacked by Zombies 2 miles down the road. Then you will be complain that we didn’t warn you!

  30. Jaek says:

    Thats a win….totally a win

  31. erik says:

    Isn’t this like old?
    It has been on youtube with falblog-watermark for quite some time

  32. Lord De Vis says:

    Thats not a fail, thats a hacker win!

  33. Odo says:

    Old news. Happened 2 weeks ago.

  34. aikiwaza says:

    Must have been the pirates… the pirates are always trying to cause problems for the zombies.

  35. vajayjay says:

    fail? this is WIN!

  36. Atropos says:

    That is most definitely a win!

  37. Agnus says:

    That’s epic win

  38. lalaa says:

    HACKER WIN!

  39. Mookie says:

    I totally blame MikeyD for this.

  40. Foghat says:

    oh my god, there were two at the news desk already, run!

    http://www.lowbrowsophisticate.com

  41. Joey says:

    How in God’s name is that a “Top Story”??

  42. SAWfreak08 says:

    ZOMBIES FTW!!!!

  43. Stu says:

    I totally saw this in person a few weeks ago….pure genius….

  44. BondFan4518 says:

    UNRELATED NEWS HEADLINE: MICHAEL PHELPS WILL NOT BE CHARGED FOR SMOKING CANNABIS.

  45. XKillerBenX says:

    Ha! call of duty world at war Nazi zombies. :D

  46. Shoppy says:

    how exactly is that a fail? i call it WIN.

  47. Airigh says:

    I read about this on Yahoo.

    • livinginaglasshouse says:

      *speaks kindly while trying to say something that can sound mean*
      Everything here is at least a couple weeks old, but that’s because it gets filtered on the voting pages.
      I think the important thing to remember is Nik S was forward thinking enough to link Failblog to it.
      P.S. I saw this on the voting pages and thought, “Dang, I should have done that.” Good job Nik

  48. Mazjinga says:

    It was real – this is the cover-up

  49. Elipson says:

    That’s more like a win

  50. Jennifer says:

    lolol Yeah! Good job!

  51. Kamikaze says:

    This is a WIN not a FAIL
    City of Austin posting this = FAIL
    Hackers managing to get through a road sign (somehow) = WIN

    …oh and Austin = FAIL

    …BURN…

  52. q3w34234 says:

    my dick is fully erect

  53. PigHam says:

    epicwin

  54. abstract says:

    I love it! It’s nice to see hackers doing something funny like that instead of making new viruses to setal my info online.

  55. penguin_man says:

    dam, this took a while to get on here.
    Those signs are easy to set up, you just need the right size flash drive

  56. Phaet says:

    I don’t remember where but hackers hacked the weather channel and uploaded their video.
    So they’re showing some mountains, some green fields etc. and suddelny there’s a nuclear explosion and the screen goes dead.

  57. Aja says:

    If you kill their parents, the zombies will go away.

  58. Pants says:

    Ahaha, Nazi zombies!

    Wiiinnnn

  59. Megs says:

    I think that is full of win!

  60. Nylund says:

    Nazis…we’ve proven we can handle them. Zombies? Pretty dim-witted and unorganized. We should be able to out think them. But Nazi Zombies? That is some scary shit. Undead yet highly disciplined and organized. Scary stuff man. Scary stuff.

  61. Mark says:

    I think that this should read “Top Story Fail.” If this is the nightly news’ top story, they have some serious issues. There are far greater stories happening all over the world. Were they thinking, “Okay for potential top stories tonight, huge economic crisis, war in Iraq, or some douchebag pranksters. Definitely the douchebag pranksters.”

  62. Rich says:

    I agree, the title should read “Heroic Road Sign Win!”

  63. Thiel says:

    I find it sad that this is their top story

  64. Taaroko says:

    Those were no hackers. This reeks of conspiracy. We now have categorical proof that the government is attempting to conceal the reality of an undead threat to the populous. Now excuse me while I consult The Zombie Survival Guide and prepare to follow Grif to Alaska before the major freeways become choked with stalled cars from people trying to flee the major population centers (don’t want to be caught in a tasty flesh bottleneck).

  65. otisbdriftwood says:

    I knew I wouldn’t regret buying the Zombie Survival Guide.

  66. green says:

    I say thats EPIC WIN, not fail! Hilarious!

  67. Adam says:

    hahahaha always blame the hackers

  68. pizzavortex says:

    Fail?
    More like win!

  69. Guess Again says:

    This IS old news, yet it is still a hilarity WIN!
    City authorities sense of humor, however, is a huge FAIL.

  70. Hanii Puppy says:

    Foolish humans. Zombie hackers fore-warned you of their hordes and still you do nothing! Looks like it’s up to us vampires to protect you!

    Now, off to the Courtroom to be sued bobby crosby!

  71. Hanii Puppy says:

    Incidentally, I love how they make more sense warning people of zombies than they do when working normally.

  72. greggy says:

    i think its a no sense of humor fail…

  73. matty says:

    that’s why there needs to be a gun in every car.

  74. Bob says:

    I hate it when the government uses the media to cover up the truth.
    There WERE zombies up ahead. They killed 32 people and it nearly broke out into a full pandemic!

  75. Monday says:

    Thats not a fail! Thats an EPIC WIN!!!!!

  76. Joey says:

    This is a win for the world.
    But a fail for the people who didn’t heed our warning.
    They will be miseed.

  77. Brother Clark says:

    How the hell is this a fail? It’s a win.

  78. Alex says:

    Sign: EPIC WIN
    Reporter: EPIC FAIL

  79. Dexaan says:

    Tank! *cue dramatic music*

  80. ©2008 says:

    haxorz ftw

  81. WMD54 says:

    =0 i live in austin. wish i had seen this XD

  82. Anastasia says:

    clearly, this should be a WIN!

  83. d4NGEROUS says:

    Why on earth is this news team wasting so much precious time reporting THE WRONG STORY! There’s fucking Nazi zombies on the loose and they are worried about some petty hackers? Hot diggity damn.

  84. SSmasher says:

    I see no fail, only win.

  85. ratherconfused says:

    But this isn’t fail! This is so made of EPIC win!!

  86. the stuff says:

    i live in austin and actually drove by and saw this. i guess i’m famous now.

  87. ghkr says:

    404ed FTL

  88. lar says:

    i love living in austin.
    this made me okay with sitting in traffic.

  89. gilligan says:

    Isn’t this a big win for hackers?

  90. lar says:

    it could actually just be a sign developer fail
    apparently if you reset the sign, it resets the password to the sign’s system, and the default password is in the manual, so its a hacker free for all pretty much.

  91. e says:

    this is totally a win

  92. sam-the-man says:

    That was actually the news headline?!?

  93. TehArks says:

    EPIC WIN

  94. Stebbi92 says:

    I BELIEVE THIS TO BE A WIN!

  95. kevin says:

    thats more of a win than a fail

  96. dekedastardly says:

    “back to normal”?

    RD WK ON
    MLK
    EB CLSD

    Normaility FAIL

  97. Sebastian says:

    This is not fail, this is WIN!

    Failblog is like man with only a hammer: everything starts to look like a nail.

  98. Nilla says:

    I agree with most, this is an epic win.

  99. sabremeister says:

    It’s a fail that it was their top story

  100. sp0ng3r says:

    Youtube fail for removing the video.

  101. Jerry says:

    This is a WIN!!!! And extremely hilarious! The hackers are fans of Call of Duty, because after you beat the game, it unlocks a Nazi Zombie game.

  102. Mint says:

    Old news fail.

  103. CarolineA says:

    This is such win!

  104. ainoreiraku says:

    This was the top news of the day?

    …. either Austin has 0% crime rate or this news station needs to prioritize better.

  105. Grandma says:

    he played to mutch cod5

  106. d4NGEROUS! says:

    I feel bad for the zombies in this scenario. Theyz just tryin to grub some brainz. Let them do their thing, yaknow?

  107. C. Frith says:

    I submitted this too, but as a win. Gamer girl here and this cracked me up. RUNNNNNNN ZOMBIESSSSSS.

  108. ad hoc says:

    there’s always someone who whinges about disruption.

    ‘oh no! my grey monotonous daily commute that sucks the life out of me was disrupted by some humour’

    ‘oh no! that oppressive grey concrete wall now has a riot of colour and shapes emblazoned across it. it’s ‘anti social’.’

  109. Kitty says:

    SUPER WIN!!!!!!

  110. Bubbanitro says:

    Damn, video seems to be down.

  111. Austinite says:

    As an Austinite, I can only say that this is nothing but pure unadulterated Win.

  112. Tyler Durden says:

    This is like the hackers at MIT. look it up they changed a sign to say Help Trapped in a Sign Factory.

  113. INTJ says:

    Definitely not a fail. The best part is that the man couldn’t figure out how to fix it, even though the instructions are on the internet.

  114. B1FF says:

    IT SAYS IN TEH BIBEL THAT ZOMBIES WILL INHERIT THE EART> READ UR BIBBEL PPL ONLY THEN WILL U BE SAVED FROM TEH END TIMES AND ZOMBIES ARE PART OF THAT MARK MY WORDS SINNERS!!!

  115. Strych IX says:

    FALI?!?!?
    no, this is WIN!

  116. kt says:

    pk, this is no fail. this is a total WIN!!!

  117. Chanlo says:

    Lol Nazi Zombies is a game within Call of Duty World At War. Obviously done by fans of the game.

  118. Kitty says:

    The video’s been removed, what did the sign say?

  119. Death4mBelow says:

    That should be a freeking win!!!

  120. undescribable. incontainable says:

    more like hacker win!!!!!!!!

  121. Cannabis says:

    Huh. I thought the “Fail” was the anchorwoman announcing, “These signs are back to normal now…” while standing in front of a sign that says:

    RD WK ON
    MLK
    EB CLSD

    ….yyyyyyep, everything normal here!

  122. august says:

    i think what you mean is road sign WIN.
    unfortunately, i missed seeing this sign in person.

  123. slayer512 says:

    who here gets the nazi zombie thing? its a call of duty 4 reference!!! god u guys

  124. bobby joe says:

    rotfl, wish icould do taht!

  125. cb says:

    FailBlog Fail
    Hack Win

  126. Ultra Director Haruhi says:

    mwahaha, I saw this when it first aired.

  127. Meresa says:

    City of Austin – FAIL

    Hackers – WIN

  128. timmis says:

    Yeah….I’d say that’s a win ;P

  129. Michel says:

    i think this is indeed a win instead of a fail =]

  130. Matthew says:

    Why isn’t this considered a win?!?!?!?!?!?

  131. Pazuzu says:

    How is this a fail? This is a win if ever I saw one.

  132. Drew says:

    Dude, that was in my home town. My sisters and I actually saw the signs X)

  133. the hacker says:

    easy hack but surprisingly effective

  134. tom says:

    haha top story fail!

  135. Bob Ma Lee says:

    meanwhile, Zombies ate their babies as they drove around complaining to the proper authorities

  136. Justin says:

    GET A SENSE OF HUMOR! Jesus Christ people in Austin!

  137. Yachiru says:

    Lol. Total win.

    @ The lady at the end: I say get the doctor to take that stick you have jammed up your butt out. It must be uncomfortable by now.

  138. Zzommbie says:

    It’s a win

  139. Chris T. says:

    ….isn’t that roadsign a viral campaign for Resident Evil 5? that’s what Capcom is doing at some cities….

  140. Lorien says:

    How did it violate terms of service?

  141. SHADoW =P says:

    YUP, EPIC WIN!!

  142. someone says:

    It died here, but it’s up here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgYFmLCQhco

  143. CrazyDrumGuy says:

    How is this fail? Reprogramming a traffic sign to warn of the zombie apocalypse is full of win!

  144. Someguyz12 says:

    lol, wow, people blame things on video games all the time, and the one time it’s actually caused by them (the sign was based on CoD:WaW, btw) no one notices, ironic, ain’t it.

  145. Katie says:

    OMG I saw that on tv the morning it happened! I was just gettin ready for school and…KABAM! I see Zombies on the news XDDD.

  146. Ryan says:

    Nazi zombies! Lol someone picked of hacking from cod 5

  147. Frabjulous says:

    Failblog needs to stop using Youtube. Everything violates its terms of usage.

  148. AJ says:

    Nazi Zombies? Obviously a CoD:WaW player ;)

  149. Mart says:

    Ah come on! That’s not a fail, it’s a major win!

  150. pt277 says:

    last

  151. Fail_Me_Not says:

    This is most definitely a WIN, not a fail.

  152. Mr.Metalcore says:

    someone plays just a little bit to much c.o.d LMFAOO

  153. ckbrown109 says:

    only in Texas

  154. Andy says:

    UBER WIN!!!!!!!!

  155. Sashan says:

    I never knew zombies had nazis…

  156. weirdo says:

    too much cod 5

  157. footloose says:

    austin texas?

  158. darkknife says:

    COD5

  159. Psycho-Tic says:

    Yeah!! COD5 forever!!

  160. lalala says:

    I live there! Ahaha I saw that it was sooo funny. :D

  161. sekss says:

    LOL I’d love to see that here in my town!

  162. supgee? says:

    all y’all do relize(however u spell–Mental blank) this is from Cod WaW Nazi Zombies?? yeh…

  163. Nikki says:

    LOL BEST PRANK EVER!!! Epic Win

  164. moon_unit says:

    thats not funny. zombies are a super cereal threat.

  165. t3x45 r4ng3r says:

    too bad there isnt any snow in Austin. things like this make me proud to live and have grown in Austin. total win!


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