The Hollywood sign was vandalized early Sunday to read “Hollyweed,” for a few hours on New Year’s
This comes after a prankster used giant tarps to turn two of the iconic sign’s white Os into Es.
Los Angeles police on Sunday, through their surveillance footage caught the prankster dressed all in black sneaking up to the sign, spent about an hour and half transforming the icons.
Local media said the modification was probably a reference to Californians voting on November 8 last year to legalize recreational marijuana in the state.
California joined six other states and the District of Columbia from 2017 in allowing the drug’s non-medical use, CGTN reports
The incident was not the first time that the sign had been altered.
Danny Finegood, who passed away in 2007, was made famous by changing the sign to “Hollyweed” on January 1, 1976, in celebration of the state’s then-more relaxed marijuana laws taking effect.
In 1987, students of the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, altered it to read the abbreviated name of their school.
