91.5 Chapel Hill 88.9 Manteo 90.9 Rocky Mount 91.1 Welcome 91.9 Fayetteville 90.5 Buxton 94.1 Lumberton 99.9 Southern Pines 89.9 Chadbourn

Pranksters Alter Iconic Hollywood Sign

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Rachel Martin. It's the new year meaning new resolutions, maybe a new workout routine. For Los Angeles residents, it means a new altered Hollywood sign reading Hollyweed. Yup. As we welcomed 2017, someone climbed the iconic hilltop sign and turned the two O's in wood to two E's. Now, as to why, maybe it was just a New Year's prank, but maybe it was a celebration of California's recent legalization of recreational pot. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
More Stories
  1. Voting Firms Turn To Defamation Lawsuits To Counter False Claims
  2. Biden Policies Are A Green Light For Asylum-Seekers, Rep. Gimenez Says
  3. Volunteers In New York Find Missing Kangaroo
  4. For Rapper Drake, It Really Is As Easy As 1, 2, 3
  5. Fawzia Koofi On Afghan Peace: 'We Want To See This War End Tomorrow'