Max Headroom WTTW Pirating Incident - 11/22/87 (Subtitled)

11/22/11 -- Happy Max Headroom day!

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On a late-November evening in 1987, two Chicago television stations were victims of a broadcast signal takeover.

After an earlier hijack attempt on WGN-9 during the 9:00 News , a broadcast on WTTW-11 of the Doctor Who episode "Horror of Fang Rock" was interrupted by a man wearing a Max Headroom mask. The crazed person uttered mostly gibberish and bashed the Chicago Tribune and its subsidiaries, before he dropped his pants and was spanked by what appears to be a child. 90-seconds later, the program returned to normal. To this day, he remains at large.

This is a subtitled version of the original footage added as a courtesy due to the low audio quality of the recording. This is a rather old version, eventually I will add new annotations in response to how some of the audio was interpreted.

EDIT:
Thanks to a new video with the audio cleaned up, I've found out that he is indeed saying "I still see the X". And the person with the flyswatter is the one who said "Bend over Bitch".
http://www.hack247.co.uk/2008/01/06/max-headroom-1987-pirate-tv-incident/

NOTE: The original copy of this recording was provided by the user fuzzymemories (now FuzzyMemoriesTV). I have added these subtitles as a courtesy, please do not copy this video just to repost it on your channel for numbers. Having two of the same video is totally pointless.

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[JuggalocodeChile1988]

Happy 24 Anniversary Max Headroom mask, the 80's Troll Face!

[MarkP0rter]

this is so much better than anonymous

[zackdevan]

so was he a conservative gay?

[NightShade1218]

Give this guy his own TV show!

[Alldayeveryday404]

I'm Mitt Romney, and I approve this message.

[georgepotter428]

This is one "thin" video. =p

[pajamaloaf]

Imagine how much the people watching doctor who that day were freaking out

[RandomDetritus]

@Arc13 It made me lol too. I used to be fascinated at this mysterious stuff as a kid, like those repeating for decade radio signals and weird subliminal clips interrupting superbowls. But at the end of the day, it's just people using what we already have... (illegal) technology and creativity. Still cool.

[denver924471]

WOW. Anyone know where I can get Max Headroom on DVD?

[randyseck]

We interrupt this message......

[mrahk408essj]

This has showed up many times after this incident. It's showed up a couple times on cspan, but no ones ever seen it. Get it???.....no one watches cpan (insert booing crowd here)

[ggamer2004]

I would have cried if this showed up when I was watching tv.