Vandalized Hollywood Sign Briefly Reads ‘HOLLYWeeD’

Los Angeles residents awoke New Year's Day to find a prankster had altered the famed Hollywood sign to read "HOLLYWeeD."

The Hollywood sign vandalized in Hollywood, California on Jan. 1, 2017.

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Los Angeles (AP) -- No, Los Angeles residents, it wasn't your hangovers playing tricks on you. The Hollywood sign really did read "HOLLYWeeD" for a few hours on New Year's Day.

Police were investigating Sunday after a prankster used giant tarps to turn two of the iconic sign's white Os into Es sometime overnight.