Security Footage Shows Person Altering Hollywood Sign to Read ‘Hollyweed’: LAPD

Los Angeles residents awoke Sunday morning to see that one thing, at least, looked different in the New Year: the Hollywood sign.

The Hollywood sign was altered on New Year’s Eve to read ‘Hollyweed.” (Credit: KTLA)

Photos shared on social media showed the iconic sign modified to read, “HOLLYWeeD.”

Security footage taken around midnight Saturday showed a “lone individual” climbing up Mount Lee, scaling the sign using the built-in ladders and hanging tarpaulins over the sign’s O’s to change them to E’s, said Sgt. Guy Juneau of the LAPD’s Security Services division.

“So the sign now reads ‘Hollyweed,’” Juneau said. It could be a New Year’s prank, he said, or the work of “a thrill-seeker.”

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