max headroom chicago incident

[Tetsuo_man]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_pirating_incident
weird stuff, and creepy. Person who pirated never was found.

[rick]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_pirating_incident
weird stuff, and creepy. Person who pirated never was found.


It wasn't weird or creepy.

Just silly.

But I remeber at the time getting a kick out of the whole Pirate video thing.

[Tetsuo_man]

Well the spanking was kinda creepy. I also found it interesting that it was in the middle of a dr. who episode.

[rick]

Well the spanking was kinda creepy. I also found it interesting that it was in the middle of a dr. who episode.


It was the 80's.

Getting spanked bare butt on tv with a flyswatter was just another Friday night for some people.

[Tetsuo_man]

Well moreso the annynimity of it kinda creeped me out.

[Dazzler]

It is kinda creepy.

here's the original broadcast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cycVTXtm0U0


--Dazz

[LtMarvel]

The HBO kid got busted and jailed. I imagine that stopped the broadcast hijacking fad.

[section 8]

It is kinda creepy.

here's the original broadcast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cycVTXtm0U0


--Dazz


*Sigh*
Just say 'no' to drugs kids.

[Pink Bat Maxine]

I remember this.

I didn't find it creepy, just dumb.

Well at the TIME I thought it was awesome.... but I was a teenager. Now? Just dumb.

[scout1279]

It's the mask that makes it creepy. That thing's just disturbing looking.

[section 8]

A Regan mask would have been creepier

[scout1279]

A Regan mask would have been creepier

Nah, then I would have just thought it was Patrick Swayze.

[section 8]

i thought it was Kurt Russel.