On Tuesday, Sept. 7th, the Freewayblogger set out to post one hundred signs on LA area freeways protesting the war in Iraq and the failure to find Osama Bin Laden. The lone activist has posted over 2,000 handpainted signs on California freeways since the war began.
Story from Freewayblogger: Dear Readers, Here's how it went:
I left at midnight, heading up the 405 and posting signs on trees, fencing, signbacks and overpasses. Nothing fancy, just small and midsized signs reading "Osama Who?" "Bush Lied", "The War is a Lie" and "Osama Bin Forgotten". Things went smoothly until sign #33 on the Sepulveda Pass. I was pulled over and rummaging around in the back of my truck when I got hit with the Kleig lights of the CHP. Two officers got out: one white and one black. The white guy did the talking: "What's going on?"
I had to think fast. "I, uh, was going to hang a sign on the back of this freeway sign here."
Both officers stood there dumbfounded for a second and then shook their heads, smiling. "You can't do that!"
I grinned sheepishly (although I've never seen a sheep actually grin) and said something like "Aww, c'mon...please? I was just going to use the back of the sign..." and then I couldn't help it, I started to laugh... and then, I swear to you, so did they.
So there we were, the three of us, standing beside the freeway at 3:30 in the morning, laughing. Because it was funny.
"No really... you can't do that."
"Okay. Sorry."
"Now be careful getting back on the freeway."
"Okay. I will."
And that was it. No Further Questions. No asking for license and registration, ID, any of that. All run-ins with the law should go so well.
By 6:00 a.m. I'd posted over forty signs and, being way ahead of schedule, pulled into a Jack-in-the-Box parking lot and slept for about an hour.
I spent the rest of the morning posting signs on overpasses in LA and the valley. Around noon the word came out that the 1000th U.S. soldier had died in Iraq and suddenly the press became interested in what I was doing so most of the afternoon was spent coordinating/meeting up with TV news crews in LA and Burbank. By 9:00 p.m. I'd given three TV interviews and had posted 83 signs.
I was about an hour from home with 17 signs left and were I a stronger man I probably would've posted them, but I was exhausted. I was exhausted to the point where it was affecting my driving, so I bought some coffee, made a beeline back home and went to sleep. Final Tally: One man. One day. Eighty-Three signs and One Thousand dead soldiers.
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