Zombie apocalypse

[1Buckshot]

I love living in Montana. The People that called the Police were probably from California or Seattle.


http://news.yahoo.com/tv-station-hacker-warns-zombies-montana-002641825.html


GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana television station's regular programming was interrupted by news of a zombie apocalypse.
 
The Montana Television Network says hackers broke into the Emergency Alert System of Great Falls affiliate KRTV and its CW station Monday.
 
KRTV says on its website the hackers broadcast that "dead bodies are rising from their graves" in several Montana counties.
 
The alert claimed the bodies were "attacking the living" and warned people not to "approach or apprehend these bodies as they are extremely dangerous."
 
The network says there is no emergency and its engineers are investigating.
 
A call to KRTV was referred to a Montana Television Network executive in Bozeman. Jon Saunders didn't immediately return a call for comment.
 
The Great Falls Tribune reports the hoax alert generated at least four calls to police to see if it was true.

[Frosty]

I love living in Montana. The People that called the Police were probably from California or Seattle.
 The Great Falls Tribune reports the hoax alert generated at least four calls to police to see if it was true.

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Or Portland, OR. Guess some people (at least 4 of them) watch tooooooo much TV to the point they believe that crap, I bet they also voted for Obummer.

[Solus]

I remember hearing about a radio presentation back in Oct. of 1938 that had 1000s calling radio stations and some loading their cars to evacuate large metropolitan areas.

Something about an alien invasion.

[Frosty]

I remember hearing about a radio presentation back in Oct. of 1938 that had 1000s calling radio stations and some loading their cars to evacuate large metropolitan areas.

Something about an alien invasion.

War of the Worlds radio broadcast
Radio Listeners in Panic,
 Taking War Drama as Fact

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Many Flee Homes to Escape `Gas Raid From Mars'--Phone Calls Swamp Police at Broadcast of Wells Fantasy

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A wave of mass hysteria seized thousands of radio listeners between 8:15 and 9:30 o'clock last night when a broadcast of a dramatization of H. G. Wells's fantasy, "The War of the Worlds," led thousands to believe that an interplanetary conflict had started with invading Martians spreading wide death and destruction in New Jersey and New York.

The broadcast, which disrupted households, interrupted religious services, created traffic jams and clogged communications systems, was made by Orson Welles, who as the radio character, "The Shadow," used to give "the creeps" to countless child listeners. This time at least a score of adults required medical treatment for shock and hysteria.

In Newark, in a single block at Heddon Terrace and Hawthorne Avenue, more than twenty families rushed out of their houses with wet handkerchiefs and towels over their faces to flee from what they believed was to be a gas raid. Some began moving household furniture.

Throughout New York families left their homes, some to flee to near-by parks. Thousands of persons called the police, newspapers and radio stations here and in other cities of the United States and Canada seeking advice on protective measures against the raids.

The program was produced by Mr. Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air over station WABC and the Columbia Broadcasting System's coast-to-coast network, from 8 to 9 o'clock.

[1Buckshot]

I remember hearing about a radio presentation back in Oct. of 1938 that had 1000s calling radio stations and some loading their cars to evacuate large metropolitan areas.

Something about an alien invasion.

  Danm I'm not that old.

[Sponsor]

[Solus]

  Danm I'm not that old.

Not that old either...just heard and read about it.

[Solus]

The panic was actually cause by the timing of a competitor's broadcast as explained below.

The Panic

Though the program began with the announcement that it was a story based on a novel and there were several announcements during the program that reiterated that this was just a story, many listeners didn't tune in long enough to hear them.

A lot of the radio listeners had been intently listening to their favorite program the "Chase and Sanborn Hour" and turned the dial, like they did every Sunday, during the musical section of the "Chase and Sanborn Hour" around 8:12. Usually, listeners turned back to the "Chase and Sanborn Hour" when they thought the musical section of the program was over.

However, on this particular evening they were shocked to hear another station carrying news alerts warning of an invasion of Martians attacking Earth. Not hearing the introduction of the play and listening to the authoritative and real sounding commentary and interviews, many believed it to be real.

All across the United States, listeners reacted. Thousands of people called radio stations, police and newspapers. Many in the New England area loaded up their cars and fled their homes. In other areas, people went to churches to pray. People improvised gas masks. Miscarriages and early births were reported. Deaths, too, were reported but never confirmed. Many people were hysterical. They thought the end was near.

Hours after the program had ended and listeners had realized that the Martian invasion was not real, the public was outraged that Orson Welles had tried to fool them. Many people sued. Others wondered if Welles had caused the panic on purpose.

The power of radio had fooled the listeners. They had become accustomed to believing everything they heard on the radio, without questioning it. Now they had learned - the hard way.

[PegLeg45]

The power of radio had fooled the listeners. They had become accustomed to believing everything they heard on the radio, without questioning it. Now they had learned - the hard way.

Hmmm sounds eerily familiar for some reason......

[tombogan03884]

Welles, (Orson, not Herbert) darn near went to jail for that broadcast.

[Big Frank]

They hacked 2 stations in Michigan too. http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-odd/20130213/US.Zombie.Broadcast.Michigan/