For several hours early this morning, motorists driving south on Boulder’s Foothills Parkway near Baseline Road received an unnerving warning on an electric road-construction sign.
“Zombies ahead.”
“We decided that we ought to be especially alert since it was 4 a.m.,” said Rick Barron, 66, of Boulder, who was driving his wife and her sister to the airport about 4 a.m. when they spotted the sign. “We all three just cracked up. It was very funny.”
And although he kept an eye out for the undead along the way to Denver International Airport, Barron said, “I couldn’t verify that I saw any.”
This is the first time the sign at Foothills Parkway and Baseline Road been hacked, said Gerry Padilla, project engineer with the Colorado Department of Transportation. He said a project inspector noticed it when he arrived for work this morning, and immediately turned it away from traffic while reprogramming it to say, “Shoulder work Feb. 28 through June.”
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