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Who hauled tarps up the Santa Monica Mountains to change an iconic assurance to "Hollyweed" hours afore Los Angeles woke up on Sunday? It's a abstruseness for now.

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But the Hollywood Assurance Trust, the non-profit alignment that oversees aliment for the landmark, is attractive to advance its aegis in the deathwatch of this attenuate high-profile prank.

"The Hollywood Assurance surveillance arrangement is consistently evolving but an adventure like the one that occurred aboriginal Sunday morning shows us area there are opportunities to accomplish improvements," Chris Baumgart, administrator of the Hollywood Assurance Trust, said Monday in a account to The Hollywood Reporter.

"The new year’s antic was no barring and we will be deploying added technology to bind up surveillance and appropriately avert exceptionable visitors in the future," said Baumgart. "This is added than preventing pranks or arrest at the sign. Our affair is the assurance of the adjacency and the trespassers that put themselves at accident because it is acutely alarming to be on the sign, let abandoned traversing the betraying hillside that is home to those 9 acclaimed letters.”

On Sunday, as the industry was campanology in 2017, a antic or defacer or activist (or all three?) managed to adhere white and atramentous tarps over the closing two "O" belletrist on the landmark. The alone or individuals amenable committed a arrest violation, Los Angeles badge administrator Mike Lopez told THR. But there has been no arrest fabricated or doubtable about identified.

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A accord assurance was categorical in white on one of the atramentous tarps, forth with the words "A accolade to..." The added tarp had a affection appearance on it and some writing. It's cryptic if there was a bulletin to the assurance abreast from the advertence to California opting to vote for marijuana amends in the November election.

The assurance was said to be adequate to accustomed altitude mid-morning on New Year's Day, with no apparent constant damage. Multiple workers could be apparent in photos application a ladder to abolish the tarps. By Monday, from a distance, it looked as it usually does on a blurred day.

The assurance is currently watched over by a aegis camera arrangement that is monitored by the Los Angeles Badge Department. It was aboriginal installed in 1994 and adapted several times since.

The figure has occasionally been acclimated to advance political messaging. In 2010, the assurance was covered with red and atramentous book with the words "Save the Peak" in an attack to accession acquaintance about development.

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Famously, in 1976, the assurance was angry into "Hollyweed" by a then-student called Daniel Finegood and three others for an art activity for Cal-State Northridge over the advance of several hours.

When his son, Matthew Finegood, saw images of the new "Hollyweed" antic he anon anticipation it was a bequest to the assignment of his father. "He spent about $50 on giant, four sheets — two black, two white — angry them to some stones, climbed on the assurance a little bit to bandy the stones and the braiding over that was angry to the sheets," Finegood told THR. "So there was a lot of planning."

Added Finegood, "He was determined that it absolutely wasn't a prank. He was accomplishing article that didn't abuse the sign. He acquainted it was art and he was aggravating to acquaint the apple article he believed in and that bodies were admiring of."

Daniel Finegood, who wasn't arrested for the 1976 "Hollyweed" antic and anesthetized abroad in 2007, would ultimately adapt the Hollywood assurance four times during his lifetime: to "Holywood" (also in 1976), "Ollywood" (in 1987) and "Oil War" (taken bottomward afore the end of a night in 1990). He additionally aspired to do an April Fools' Day antic to accomplish the absolute assurance abandon into the accomplishments of the hillside, but the plan never came to fruition, his son said.

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For now, the character of the new "Hollyweed" antic is obscure. "I anticipate it was abundant beheading that it was done in that way," said the bearding artisan accepted as Plastic Jesus, back contacted by THR. "You appetite the bulletin to be the focus of the assignment and not the artist."

Plastic Jesus, who said he had no captivation in the new antic but has fabricated account for his annoying Oscar-themed art in contempo years, says he afresh batten with Los Angeles-based artery artists who didn't apperceive who would accept been abaft the new adapted sign.

Jackass brilliant Steve-O — himself arrested in 2015 for a Hollywood crane beef that included a assurance adage "Seaworld Sucks" — acicular out as abundant back he took a selfie in advanced of the "weed" antic on Sunday. He wrote: "I don't apperceive who did this to the Hollywood Sign, but I'm absolutely afflicted they got abroad with it."

After added than a day with no chat about a suspect, the adventure is developing into a bit of a Hollywood mystery. Asked why the new antic hasn't yet appear forward, Finegood joked: "Maybe he's still on his even to Amsterdam or Ecuador."

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