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HACKED: TV Station’s Emergency Alert System Warns That ‘Bodies of the Dead Are Rising From Their Graves’

Feb. 11, 2013 8:20pm
HACKED: TV Stations Emergency Alert System Warns That Bodies of the Dead Are Rising From Their Graves

Credit: AP

Television viewers in several Montana counties had to be baffled when an emergency alert interrupted the “Steve Wilkos Show” to report that the zombie apocalypse had begun — and after millions of Americans had watched AMC’s “The Walking Dead” just the night before.

“Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living,” the emergency alert calmly stated. “Do not attempt to approach or apprehend these bodies as they are considered very dangerous.”

The somewhat humorous — and  clearly fake — alert was promptly yanked from the air and KRTV issued an apology on air and online for the mix-up.

Someone apparently hacked into the Emergency Alert System and announced on KRTV and the CW that “dead bodies are rising from their graves” in several Montana counties.

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

Our engineers are investigating to determine what happened and if it affected other media outlets.

The Great Falls Tribune reports at least four people called the police to see if the hoax was true following the alert.

As Gawker observes, we don’t know who is responsible for the hack, how they did it or why. If nothing else, rest easy knowing the zombie apocalypse has been averted for at least one more day.

Watch the video of the emergency alert via Mediaite below:

 

Featured image via AP

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  • justsayin456
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 10:20pm

    Anyone talking politics on this thread is re+ard3d. This is comedy gold. Pure and simple. Gold.

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  • ICanComment
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 10:08pm

    They would have achieved a better effect had they used text to speech – that would have been truly creepy.

    Pretty hilarious watching the burnt pancakes getting dubbed over…

    Not nearly as cool as the Captain Midnight stunt in 1986, though.

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    ICanComment  
  • code636
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 10:00pm

    Hm, how can we shoot them without any Ammo? See, now it makes sense, we need the government for theit stockpiled Ammo! It finally makes sense, heh.

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  • NDPINDNT
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 9:41pm

    Well, I’d heard the dead were rolling over in their graves from the changes that have taken place since Obama was elected. But not that they’d come out of their graves to take revenge on the American people for allowing the changes.

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  • patro
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 9:36pm

    Daryl Dixon and my PSE Reaper got my back;-)

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    • tmbell87
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 10:09pm

      I’d love to have Rick’s Colt Python. That gun is sick!

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    • Lt_Scrounge
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:26pm

      The Colt Python was discontinued in 2000 when the Colt Company nearly went bankrupt. They actually stopped producing guns for the civilian market for a few months. Colt Pythons are fantastic firearms. Best .357 magnum I’ve ever owned. Getting REALLY pricy now though. Smith and Wessons are good and easier to reload, but the balance and trigger pull on a Python can’t be beat. I really wish Colt would be able to bring them back.

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    • DLV
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:41am

      I see we have Walking Dead fans! I’ll join the group.

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  • chips1
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 9:26pm

    As stupid as this sounds, somewhere out there is a nutcase liberal that believes this and is going to use it as an excuse to shoot someone.

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  • Stelex
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 9:19pm

    The Walking Dead if viewed as an instructional video, really gets scary. Its an amazing analogy, instead of chewing our flesh, they chew our cash. Really no stretch at all.

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 9:36pm

      i think about this all the time… or wait until after the currency crisis, and everyone is going to be scavanging from all those who still have anything, so much so that it will become impossible to hide

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    • Lt_Scrounge
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:28pm

      Read the “Zombie Survival Guide” by Max Brooks and replace the word Zombie with criminals/motor cycle gangs, etc etc and it makes WAY too much sense. It actually has a lot of good advice on surviving in a hostile environment.

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  • woodyee
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 9:12pm

    That’s nothing. Detroit’s zombies get up and vote…

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  • dissentnow
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 9:01pm

    After rising from their graves they all became registered democrats.

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    • lthm
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 5:57am

      The dead have been rising to vote Democrat for many years.

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      lthm  
  • ABRAXUS
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:53pm

    Shoot them in the head

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  • justsayin456
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:52pm

    Derp derp what kind of liberal joke can I make that involves zombies derp derp.

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    • dissentnow
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 9:19pm

      Liberals don’t need any help in the joke department, as they make jokes of themselves on a daily basis.
      Where are the liberals on the war in Afghanistan ( troops deaths doubled there under Obama’s watch )?
      Where are the liberals on Obama’s drone strikes ( he’s killed far more innocent civilians than Bush did with drones )?….or his warrantless wiretapping ( he’s doubled the domestic spy program )?……or his renewal of the patriot act ( liberals wanted to impeach Bush over the patriot act )?……..or the NDAA?…….or his war on federal whistleblowers?…..or running guns to the Mexican drug cartels?…….or his support for the al Qaeda rebels in Syria and Libya?
      The joke is on all of the useful idiot liberals and neocons who still buy into the two-party paradigm.
      Derp…..derp……

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    • Stelex
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 9:21pm

      Derp, derp………that is the joke, derp

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      Stelex  
    • Lt_Scrounge
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:38pm

      How about the alert was a few months late. Election day was in November and the Dem get out the vote efforts were successful.

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    • 1stKENTUCKYREGULAR
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:25am

      @JUSTSAYIN456

      No joke.
      Liberals are walking dead.

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      1stKENTUCKYREGULAR  
  • media-bias-steals-elections
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:46pm

    So, unless you are under the age of 12, you really don’t enjoy these movies, and wonder why you bothered to even watch them? I saw a movie (but have not watched it) titled “Zombie Strippers” or something like that? I mean, what do you do, sit around with your Hollywood buddies, and tell yourselves, well, our wives won’t let us go to the strip joint, how can we make a movie with strippers in it without making it too obvious, and give the wives a reason not to watch it?

    The only way a government could actually research bio weapons (the other zombie discussion) like that would be if they had unlimited amounts of unaccountable money? The only way a government could research bio weapons like that was if they had access to the blood, urine and DNA samples of the entire population?

    Gee, I’m glad that will never happen, aren’t you?

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  • tmbell87
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:46pm

    Fight the dead but fear the living!

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  • BobLy
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:42pm

    The dead rising? It has to be true. As examples I give Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Harry Reid and others. I defy anyone to refute this!

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  • justangry
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:40pm

    Conveniently timed before Wednesday’s presidential cyber security executive order.

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  • Carrie3570
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:39pm

    That alert was creepy as anything I have ever heard. I can just imagine what people thought when that alert started speaking.

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  • Clownzilla
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:38pm

    Well, atleast the undead wouldn’t ask for free healthcare unlike the illegal aliens.

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:36pm

    And, all this time I thought that TV show was about the OWS. Go figure.

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    • Stelex
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 9:22pm

      It is, except when they bite, green flows instead of red.

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      Stelex  
  • Greenwood
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:32pm

    It will happen one day soon. A little different than the picture here.

    John 5: 28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his [Jesus'] voice and come out.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:31pm

    In other news, Obama has sent Joe Biden to his room with no dinner for messing with things that don’t belong to him.

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  • valiant1776
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:31pm

    I think they were talking about the brain dead liberals. They must have seen a few out in the streets, and thought it good to warn the public.

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  • PoliticallyRightUs.Com
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:26pm

    There’s no lie… it started in the 60s and came to a head 4 years ago!

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  • eyesopened
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:26pm

    one comes near me….and I will make sure it’s DEAD
    whats a couple extra holes to a zombie?

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  • GuruMeditation
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:25pm

    Crass.

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  • Apexduck
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:25pm

    Thank goodness! I thought there was a liberal outbreak in Montana, they can handle the walking dead.

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