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As If Traffic In Moscow Wasn’t Bad Enough

Via the Moscow Times:

An enormous television screen showing a pornographic film caused a midnight traffic jam along Moscow’s Garden Ring Road as stunned motorists slammed on the brakes to gawk at the writhing naked bodies.

The owner of the 9-by-6-meter advertising screen said hackers had broken into the screen’s computer system and turned on the porn. “They were either acting out of hooliganism or were from a rival company,” Viktor Laptev, commercial director of advertising firm Panno.ru, told RIA-Novosti.

Authorities said they are investigating the incident, which lasted about 20 minutes. “Within three minutes we found it out, and within 15 minutes the screen was shut off,” said the deputy head of Moscow’s advertising committee, Alexander Menchuk, Interfax reported.

I can’t help be reminded of one of James Howard Kunstler’s favorite words: Clusterfuck.

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4 Responses to “As If Traffic In Moscow Wasn’t Bad Enough”

  1. Richard Says:
    January 18th, 2010 at 10:35 am

    Also known as a Charlie Foxtrot

  2. цarьchitect Says:
    January 19th, 2010 at 11:36 am

    They were either acting out of hooliganism or were from a rival company,”

    Remarkably, they’re both very plausible scenarios.

  3. MookieWilsonWhoLivedInMoscow Says:
    January 19th, 2010 at 12:08 pm

    Oh, dear. People are fools to drive the Garden Ring anyway. Moscow is a place where the Metro actually works well.

  4. mikey2gorgeous Says:
    January 20th, 2010 at 5:05 am

    I think one of my favourite words has to be ‘Kunstler’! ;)

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