Emergency Alert System: 'dead bodies are rising from their graves'
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.
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.
Four calls from Great Falls to police? So the entire town got duped?
Is that what Wendy looks like before her coffee?
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I was one of the lucky people who heard the broadcast. Sounded authentic until they started talking about the bodies walking around. Funny as it may have been, the perp(s) are going to wish the Zombies got them once FCC has ahold of them. It was one thing to hack regular programming, quite another to hack the Emergency Broadcast System. Still can't believe some people called to see if it was true.... Can we say gullible ???
Zombies are just plain old boring by now.
A sign of very low mentality...
So the next wave of Portland immigrants are coming from Big Sky Country.Â
Hahahaha.... Love it, Icarus. :-) I usually take issue with negative remarks about immigrants, but this was pretty funny. The first wave of immigrants from my family came over on the Mayflower(Samson), the 2nd bunch waited until the late 1880s. Definitely, no 'immigrants' heading from here to Oregon. We didn't move here until 1990, and no one has died yet.
In related news, The Walking Dead continues to break all sorts of records as one of the most popular TV series of all times.