An unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask hijacks Chicago television broadcasts in one of the strangest unsolved media incidents in U.S. history. Chicago, Illinois, November 22, 1987(More read below)

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[u/MrBoWiggly]

Im convinced this was nothing more than some college nerds from the A/V club seeing if it was possible to do what they did. And the fact that they moon the camera at one point after pirating the air waves just cements it for me.

[u/Renizance → u/MrBoWiggly]

No way! It was a criminal mastermind.  That's just the way Max Headroom rolls man. 

[u/AdTraditional5917]

I can remember it being all over the news even in England..