Sunnyvale traffic signal prankster on the loose
Police in Sunnyvale are keeping an eye out for a highly skilled and frustratingly elusive prankster who has been tampering with the city’s traffic lights for more than three months, authorities said today.
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Further puzzling investigators is the fact the traffic trickster used a cherry-picker truck to reach an overhead signal spanning a busy intersection — apparently without anyone being any the wiser, Pilger said. What’s more, the practical joker has effortlessly opened the control boxes that contain the signals’ electronic guts.“No one’s seen anything and they’ve obviously blended in, and they have a key to the traffic boxes,” Pilger said. He noted that such keys are not proprietary to the city, so a key that works elsewhere probably works in Sunnyvale.
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