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It could be all those juicy brains in a college town, but Gainesville seems to have a high degree of zombie awareness.

In the fall, a manager for the University of Florida's e-Learning Web site posted a disaster preparedness plan in case of a zombie attack. The elaborate plan - with footnotes and official-looking forms - was meant as a fun way to reduce stress in the office and encourage thinking about how to handle a campus closure.

On Monday morning, drivers might have thought the zombie plan had been put into effect. At least two Florida Department of Transportation traffic signs - on West University Avenue and North Main Street - carried the warning: "ZOMBIE ATTACK!! EVACUATE." The sign on Main misspelled evacuate.

But the signs were a hoax. Someone had hacked the message on the signs, either by telephone or working directly at the signs themselves, FDOT spokeswoman Gina Busscher said.

The husband of an FDOT employee saw the bogus warning on University at about 7 a.m. Monday and called the department. The correct message was restored, notifying motorists that they might have to stop for roadwork between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Busscher said, and the sign-control apparatus was padlocked.

"We've not seen any zombies on University Avenue," Busscher added, "so apparently it worked well. ... We've not had a problem like this before."

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