{"id":248168,"date":"2010-01-29T17:36:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128772fd71b970c"},"modified":"2010-01-29T18:04:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:04:21","slug":"renegade-sign-bandits-slap-phony-notices-onto-l-a-billboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/248168","title":{"rendered":"Renegade sign bandits slap phony notices onto L.A. billboards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0128772ffe22970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fuel-billboards\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128772ffe22970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0128772ffe22970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0pt 5px 5px 0pt;\" title=\"Fuel-billboards\"><\/img><\/a> Call them renegade sign bandits. Or guerrilla activists. Whatever you call them, they&#8217;re hanging unofficial notices &#8212; complete with the L.A. city seal stamped on them &#8212; onto billboards around the city.<\/p>\n<p>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, <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2010\/01\/29\/guerilla_enforcement_of_illegal_bil.php\">writes Zach Behrens at LAist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Now, faux violation notices are being found slapped onto the Fuel-owned signs.<\/p>\n<p>City officials say they didn&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Looks to me that we&#8217;ve got renegade sign bandits,&quot; Bob Steinbach,<br \/>\na spokesman for the Department of Building and Safety, told LAist. &quot;If we post them, there&#8217;d be contact info on them.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>And the Coaliton to fight Billboard Blight says it didn&#8217;t do it either. So the mystery continues over who hung the phony notices on the disputed billboards.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Sign posted this week at Lincoln Boulevard and Brooks Avenue in Venice. Credit: LAist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call them renegade sign bandits. Or guerrilla activists. Whatever you call them, they&#8217;re hanging unofficial notices &#8212; complete with the L.A. city seal stamped on them &#8212; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}