Montana TV warns of ZOMBIE ATTACK in epic prank hack Pranksters managed to hack a TV emergency alert system in Montana on Monday to broadcast an on-air audio warning about the supposed start of a zombie apocalypse. Viewers of Great Falls, Montana, television station KRTC watching a Jerry Springer-style show (specifically the Teen Cheaters Take Lie Detectors segment of The Steve …
Probably NRA members foaming at the mouth at the prospect of being able to say to the pinko left wing commies "SEE! SEE! WE TOLD YOU WE NEED GUNS!"
It could also have been a bunch of ignorant, inbred hicks, but they're made up predominantly of the aforementioned NRA cardholders anyway.
I'm adding Montana to the list of places where breeding should be strictly controlled.
.. and it's not even Friday :)
As a hack it would be (a) funny and (b) a good wake up call, not for zombies, but for those in charge of maintaing the integrity of the emergency system
As advertising it would be a VERY bad idea because it creates confusion about alert systems that people should be moderately familiar with. I'm not so worried about people now not responding to a real zombie attack, but people tuning out of a general alert on the assumption it's advertising. Having said that, they *really* should do something about the sound quality..
">I'm not so worried about people now not responding to a real zombie attack...
Glad we've sorted that out phew..."
Well, it's best in the long run. When the real zombie apocalypse starts, all of the people who think it's just advertising or kids hacking will ignore it, giving the zombies plenty of easy targets, and allowing the rest of us to get away.
Zombies have rights to. Their anger against the living is not their fault, it is all because the living don't include them in their activities. Society needs to adjust to having the undead amongst us. We need more funding for their education, transport, job placement and, or course, their special dietary needs.
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Not true. As zombies do read well enough to vote and no one else is likely to stick up for them they are required to pay 115% income tax. They also technically pay 347% property taxes, but since they're dead they can't legally own anything.
Unfortunately getting them to pay up has been a problem. There's some sort of issue with all the IRS auditors getting eaten. So maybe they're doing their part after all.
Unfortunately getting them to pay up has been a problem. There's some sort of issue with all the IRS auditors getting eaten. So maybe they're doing their part after all.
Obvious troll. If the IRS auditors paid a visit to a zombie, that zombie would go hungry. No spicy brains, no beating heart, no guts, no spine...
" And hence pay the square root of bugger all"
Non-doms pay UK taxes on their UK income, and any overseas income remitted to the UK. I expect that most non-doms in the UK have some unremarkable waged/salaried job or other, and pay UK taxes at source. Billionare non-doms might pay no tax, but then I'd expect even dom-billionaires arrange their affairs to be tax efficient and pay rather less than you might expect.
The whole "haxor dis & make it say OMFG ZOMBIES" is getting old, kiddiez.
Try something new: aliens, super-volcano (especially in Montana!), Mothra, giant robots, something like that.
(I was going to suggest "Constitution suspended" but a) it would be totally believed by the Montana population and b) it is uncomfortably close to the truth.)
I don't think that was a hack, the government put out a load of propaganda messages like that in the south of England. For example there's "Don't Drink and Drive", which they usually pull out around Christmas to confuse drunk drivers.
There's the simple and perplexing message "Think Bike" which is wheeled out on random occasions just to make people think about bikes. Only useful if you are going on a biking holiday and you have happened to left the bike at home.
"Don't speed, Police snipers ahead", a particularly dull message as you never get to see any snipers. Presumably they are hidden on a gantry or something.
It could have been Sky News...
Hacking sat uplinks is (hopefully) beyond the abilities of AnonyLulMalPwn but there are "other ways".
Said other way has been kept quiet but it is trivial to test and requires about $800 worth of one time use hardware and a few odds and ends.
-ZetaSec
"The bodies of dead APPLIANCES are rising up and attacking the living!."
Self assembling homicidal machines made from bits of dead microwaves, fridges and suchlike with bits of formerly living flesh stuck on for "decoration" would be more terrifying than zombies IMHO.
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