Emergency broadcast alert warns TV viewers that the world is going to end on Saturday

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/22/emergency-broadcast-alert-warn.html

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Come on Planet X and make up for the no show by Giant Meteor!

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Planet X, Niberu, Red Pachinko, etc, has been ready to doom us next week since at least 1995.

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The preponderance of incredibly stupid people who fall for this sort of stuff makes me wish that the World actually would end.

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It’s actually Pluto coming after us, for having demoted it from planet status.

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Saturday in which timezone is this disaster supposed to hit actually?

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Makes about as much sense as climate change. There are very fine theories on both sides.

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I think that’s tomorrow?

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Jesus, a little more notice next time, please!

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Prior planning prevents piss poor performance.

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On his way… but the whole thing seems pretty Mickey Mouse, to me.

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The TWILIGHT time ZONE.

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Prior planning! Of course! That’s my problem! I’ve been trying to plan afterward all this time.

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Normally, playing games with the emergency messaging system would merit a swift butt-kicking from the FCC.

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Wait, who are the alleged conspirators here?

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Crab people

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but… but… wouldn’t that prove their point?

No, Jesus specifically said there would be no warning. Which makes these folk even more suspect.

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Also reported on Gizmodo. There was at least one other broadcast which used audio from an episode of Coast to Coast:

The episode they used from C2C really shows their hand as a prankster.

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Not if it occurred without a warning from their scam-artist overlord.

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