Additional
April Fool's Day Content
April Fool's Day Content
Site Map
April Fool Categories
April Fool: Recurring Pranks
April Fool: Regions
April Fool: Perpetrators
April Fool: Serial Corporate Pranksters
April Fool: Settings
April Fool's Day Archive, Contents:
| Before 1900: | Origin of April Fool's Day | 1700-1799 | 1800-1899 |
| Early 1900s: | 1900 | 1901 | 1915 | 1919 | 1920 | 1923 | 1925 |
| 1930s & 40s: | 1933 | 1934 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1940 | 1949 |
| 1950s & 60s: | 1950 | 1957 | 1959 | 1960 | 1962 | 1965 | 1969 |
| 1970s: | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 |
| 1980s: | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 |
| 1990s: | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
| 2000s: | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| 2010s: | 2010 | 2011 |
LA Highways Close For Repairs
Date: April Fool's Day, 1987
Categories: Poorly Received, Traffic and Transportation, Radio, United States, 1987, Fake Warnings
Categories: Poorly Received, Traffic and Transportation, Radio, United States, 1987, Fake Warnings
Steve Morris, a disc jockey for KRTH-FM, a Los Angeles radio station, announced that all Los Angeles freeways would be closed for repairs for an entire month beginning April 8. The radio station received hundreds of calls in response to this announcement, and Caltrans and the California Highway Patrol reported that they were flooded with calls all day from worried commuters. KRTH later admitted that it was stunned by the reaction to the hoax and said that it had received a call from Caltrans "telling us that they didn't think it was very funny."
Links and References
1987
There are no comments yet for this article.
Submit a Comment
In order to post comments you have to register as a member of the site.
All text Copyright © 2011 by Alex Boese, except where otherwise indicated. All rights reserved.