Ah, so nice to see my home town make the news 
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It has to have some kind of connectivity to allow ads to be added/deleted.
Most likely it has a cell data connection to allow editing and checking the status remotely. Most signs are owned by advertising companies that have a lot of them, and they don’t want to have to send people out just to load an ad, or get the logs of how many times a client ad played.
Even if this gentleman and friends bought it themselves, that’s how it’ll be designed. It might have some kind of wifi or direct connect port for testing/service.
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It’s a shame that large well-lit electronic billboards intentionally located in places where they can be seen by the general public are incredibly difficult targets for those armed with long-range kinetic energy weapons.
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There are lots of things that can be done, just not within the law. I fail to see why we should allow that to be the limit of our imaginations.
Pennsylvania can’t under current US constitutional law.
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Howdy neighbor! Hometown pride is awesome, right?
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For several decades here in SW Washington state, there has been a similar (non-electric) billboard on private land alongside I-5. Less overtly obnoxious, it sports a picture of Uncle Sam and some bit of hard-right buffoonery. People are generally more amused by it than mad.
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So is Placek’s business tanking and losing money hand over fist? If not, then the locals approve of his message. Too many of them at least.
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I’m sure I could hack it with my axe.
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Specifically, the First Amendment. We have the Illinois Nazis to thank for that. And the ACLU.
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Born and raised in Texas, can confirm.
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An appropriate use of “2A solutions”, was going to suggest the same thing. Whoever pulls the trigger can always deploy the Dick Cheney Hunting Accident defense.
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Do you not have laws over “this billboard might be a distraction to the highway and a safety risk”?
Fuckit, see if the Satanic Temple can buy an adjacent lot and get their own sign.
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Just drove past it a few minutes ago on the way north. It now includes a comment about marriage being “one man one woman” per God’s law, in case anyone was curious If he was multi-modal in his prejudices. Quel surprise.
ETA: also “insurrection is resurrection” in a pro January 6 message. And it’s a series of billboards. I’ve now passed three, several miles apart. And his gas station is doing very well, as is the subway attached to the gas station. I’ll be contacting subway restaurants corporate headquarters later today to let them know Jared Fogle is now only one of their worst spokespersons rather than all of them.
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As depressing as the situation is, it’s good to see local residents like yourself and the people in the news story standing up to the bigot and to those in the community who stand by idly or who silently support him. Your voices and actions drown out his hate.
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Do them (Subway) a favour and create a graphic depicting the billboards and the subway logo together to illustrate the association.
Sometimes successful franchise corps need that sort of help, they’ll understand how the internet treats words and pictures differently, which may spur them to act.
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Yes, I see that one every time I head down to Oregon. The messages usually seem to reference whatever is generating outrage in right wing media at the time.
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Thanks. I may be a PA hillbilly but I’m a biracial lefty socialist PA hillbilly who likes that good kind of trouble.
This is brilliant and is now going to be a part of my plan for later today.
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