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TIL about the Max Headroom signal hijacking. Which occurred on the night of November 22, 1987, two TV stations in Illinois were hijacked. A man wearing a Max Headroom mask made various remarks about WGN (the station being hijacking) the video ends with the man being spanked. No one was ever charged.

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