Max Headroom Incident (1987) Footage

From Wikipedia:
The Max Headroom signal hijacking occurred on the night of November 22, 1987, when the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers.
That same night, at about 11:20 pm, the signal of local PBS station WTTW was interrupted during an airing of the Doctor Who serial Horror of Fang Rock. The culprit was the same Max Headroom impersonator, this time speaking with distorted audio.[7][10]
The masked figure made a comment about "nerds", called WGN sportscaster Chuck Swirsky a "frickin' liberal", held up a can of Pepsi while saying "Catch the wave" (a slogan from an ad campaign for Coca-Cola featuring the Max Headroom character),[1][7] and held up a middle finger inside what appeared to be a hollowed-out dildo.[14] The figure then ran through a series of quick comments and song snippets interspersed with excited noises and exclamations. "Max" sang the phrase "Your love is fading"; hummed part of the theme song to the 1959 animated series Clutch Cargo and said, "I still see the X!" (This was a reference to the last episode of that show, which is sometimes misheard as "I stole CBS."). He also feigned defecation (complaining of his piles) and explained that he had "made a giant masterpiece for all the Greatest World Newspaper nerds" (WGN's call letters stand for "World's Greatest Newspaper"), and discussed sharing a pair of dirty gloves with his brother.[1][10][7] After a crude video edit, the person had moved mostly offscreen to the left with his partially exposed buttocks visible from the side, with a female figure wearing a French maid costume and what appears to be a mask appearing on the right edge of the frame. The (unworn) Max Headroom mask was briefly held in view while the voice cried out, "Oh no, they're coming to get me! Ah, make it stop!" and the female figure began spanking "Max" with a flyswatter.[7] The image faded briefly into static, and then viewers were returned to the Doctor Who broadcast after a total interruption of about 90 seconds.[7][10]
Technicians at WTTW's studios could not counteract the signal takeover because there were no engineers on duty at that hour at the Sears Tower, where the station's broadcast tower was located. According to station spokesman Anders Yocom, technicians monitoring the transmission from WTTW headquarters "attempted to take corrective measures, but couldn't."[15] Air director Paul Rizzo recalled that "as the content got weirder we got increasingly stressed out about our inability to do anything about it."[5] The pirate broadcast ended when the hijackers unilaterally ended their transmission. "By the time our people began looking into what was going on, it was over," said Yocom.[11] WTTW received numerous phone calls from viewers who wondered what had occurred.[16]

[@davidlane9138]

Well the bright side is the hijacker could of did worse things during the interruption 📡📺😱😂

[@LP10M]

bro this is obviously fake

[@mohmdzedan7204]

WTF

[@CapedeticCalixto]

Was this actual footage of the intrusion?

[@noctawny3]

No idea. Could be real; could be fake.

[@raphfung]

its fake, you can tell by the vhs filter they put on the video via iphone appstore

[@noctawny3]

@@raphfung Oh ok

[@TrueMarble64]

the tv also shows the video stretched with letterboxes...... i guess that's another clue.

[@sàmbene1917]

Bruh

[@BIGLIONSSUB]

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