Fake Radio Broadcast in Michigan About Chemical Spills and Zombies Has People Call 911
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[QUOTE=booster;42831420]Should've used this for more immersion
-EAS-[/QUOTE]
Would have been cool, but it's against FCC regs in the US to broadcast any SAME data bursts and/or EAS tones that's not part of an actual EAS broadcast.
[QUOTE=Water-Marine;42831924]I don't understand how people can be fooled by radio broadcasts but fuck, that's golden.
My town's(population >1000, mind you) radio plays the War of the Worlds radio hoax every year, and there's always one person who loses their fucking mind[/QUOTE]
So basically the kinda person who checks to make sure every time you tell them "gullible" isn't in the dictionary.
[QUOTE=Goldb207;42831396]It's war of the worlds all over again[/QUOTE]
Except nobody fell for it, then. People saw through it right away, mainly due to the fact that people knew what Orson Wells sounded like, and he wasn't a newsman.
The only reason people think that people bought into it was the fact that the papers ran headlines the next day pervading that they had in an attempt to diminish the credulity of radio, which it competed with.
Panic like it's 1938
hey guys there's gullible hidden somewhere in this post
I pranked my brother a long time ago with this from the Dawn of the Dead remake:
[video=youtube;ly7Laj8Yp6w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7Laj8Yp6w[/video]
I kind of wish a TV station would try this.
I heard this on the Radio, since I live near Detroit. Was absolutely fucking hilarious, I heard various people screaming outside and panicking.
What a good day to live in this state. xD
the recording is funny as hell
[QUOTE=lonefirewarrior;42836416]I pranked my brother a long time ago with this from the Dawn of the Dead remake:
[video=youtube;ly7Laj8Yp6w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7Laj8Yp6w[/video]
I kind of wish a TV station would try this.[/QUOTE]Wow. Never watched the remake and I don't know what it is about him, but that reporter was a fantastic actor.
That's great radio right there.
[QUOTE=Swilly;42831606]I've always wanted to set up a fake Number Station within like a city area and have the local radio operators freak out as I'll change the numbers every week.[/QUOTE]
Too bad you need a lot of power and expensive radio equipment to get anywhere near a decent coverage.
I was expecting the people who took this seriously would barricade their house, stock up rations and begin looking for possible weapons.
Guess I was wrong, seems that there are people who lost the ability to take initiative and would rather rely on a possibly unreliable source of protection during such a crisis.
Funnily enough i live in Michigan.
I heard nothing about this until now.
[QUOTE=Cmx;42830959]DJs really should know by now that this will cause people to panic.[/QUOTE]
On Halloween evening? About zombies?
[QUOTE=Flazer210;42836474]...I heard various people screaming outside and panicking.
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That's just because you live near Detroit.
[QUOTE=DrDevil;42838272]Too bad you need a lot of power and expensive radio equipment to get anywhere near a decent coverage.[/QUOTE]
And the FCC would be all over your ass.
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