Call them renegade sign bandits. Or guerrilla activists. Whatever you call them, they’re hanging unofficial notices — complete with the L.A. city seal stamped on them — onto billboards around the city.
The action likely stems from a dispute between the city of L.A. and Fuel Outdoor, the company responsible for poster-size signs at corners all over Los Angeles, writes Zach Behrens at LAist.
Now, faux violation notices are being found slapped onto the Fuel-owned signs.
City officials say they didn’t do it.
"Looks to me that we’ve got renegade sign bandits," Bob Steinbach,
a spokesman for the Department of Building and Safety, told LAist. "If we post them, there’d be contact info on them."
And the Coaliton to fight Billboard Blight says it didn’t do it either. So the mystery continues over who hung the phony notices on the disputed billboards.
Photo: Sign posted this week at Lincoln Boulevard and Brooks Avenue in Venice. Credit: LAist.