— u/Wolfrattle
“I was watching that night when it happened. I love that it’s still a mystery who did it, but that list is getting pretty small.”

— u/Shoegazer75

In 1987, two Chicago TV stations had their broadcast hijacked by someone wearing a Max Headroom mask (a fictional character who is the first computer-generated TV presenter). The hacker’s first broadcast on WGN-TV only lasted 30 seconds before getting cut off, but two hours later they appeared on WTTW-TV and spent 90 seconds on-air. The hijacker wasn’t making any sense with what they were saying, with random phrases such as “catch the wave, your love is fading.” Just before the station got their signal back, the hijacker turned around, flashed the audience, and a woman walked in and hit them on their *ahem* behind with a fly swatter. The perpetrators were never caught, and it was pretty iconic.