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Local Emergency Alert System Hacked, Warns Dead Rising From Graves

Posted by Unknown on from the brains-delicious-brains dept.

First time accepted submitter Rawlsian writes "Great Falls, Montana, television station KRTC issued a denial of an Emergency Alert System report that 'dead bodies are rising from their graves.' The denial surmises that 'someone apparently hacked into the Emergency Alert System...This message did not originate from KRTV, and there is no emergency.'"

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  1. Re:find him, prosecute him by TWX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah, he did a community service by demonstrating the failure without starting a panic over a real possible event. No one should have believed it.. At least not anyone with half a BRAAAAAAAAAAIINSS!!!!

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  2. yeah right by bitt3n · · Score: 5, Funny

    This message did not originate from KRTV, and there is no emergency

    those are some wily zombies

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  3. Re:find him, prosecute him by Greyfox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not cause any harm? It won't be so funny when the dead start rising from the grave and no one believes it because this guy cried wolf already! Thousands of people will disregard the warning and subsequently get their brains eaten! It won't seem so fun then!

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  4. typical. by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Funny

    First the undead rise from their graves. Then the establishment covers it up. And it's not a coincidence that there are shortages and limits on ammo.

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    1. Re:typical. by knorthern+knight · · Score: 5, Funny

      > First the undead rise from their graves. Then the establishment covers it
      > up. And it's not a coincidence that there are shortages and limits on ammo.

      Chinese infiltrators in the US government want zombies to survive, so that they can be enslaved into preparing food at Chinese restaurants... the project codename is "Dead Men Wokking".

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  5. Astonishing news! by nigelo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Amazing that this got through to the front page of /. in the same week that it happened!

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