No one should ever screw around on a public alert scheme . But considering it ’s been a big year for word of advice systems — from the Hawaii false hand brake alert accidentallyinforming the public of an incoming missilethat did n’t exist to theNational Weather Service ’s false tsunami warningto the Department of Justice ’s Amber Alert site egress thatredirected visitors to porn sites — now is an especially bad clip for someone to be hump around on an snappy organization .
But that may have been what materialise when the City of Lake Worth , Florida , sent out a “ zombi spirit warning signal ” during a baron outage around 1:45am Sunday .
BREAKING : Lake Worth falsely sends out ‘ zombie ’ alert during power outagehttps://t.co/LJOVesWFVUpic.twitter.com/7D5HPQovga
— The Palm Beach Post ( @pbpost)May 21 , 2018
“ There are now far less than seven - thousand - three - hundred - eighty customers involved due to utmost zombie activeness , ” the rattling state . ( Get it ? There are fewer customer because many are zombies now ! )
The message said the alert was for “ house physician of Lake Worth and Terminus . ” Since Terminus is a location in The Walking Dead , it seems probable this message was sent out as a joke or was the result of a hack .
The city public information officer , Ben Kerr , enjoin Gizmodo this has been a reoccurring subject . “ We first became cognizant of the zombi spirit messages during Hurricane Irma , ” Kerr told Gizmodo . He does n’t know when the culprit got into the organization and change the substance , but the urban center noticed during the August 2017 hurricane because many ( zombie - infect ) outage alerts were go out . At the time , the city was capable to attend to the message issue before the public noticed .
Lake Worth ’s electrical utility program organisation is set up to send out out automatonlike alert when there ’s an outage . The scheme has grand of pre - programmed message , Kerr explained . But it seems that at some point someone went through and mess with some of the message to turn them into zombi spirit jokes . “ The actual power systems were not in any way compromise . This is a freestanding message system that at some distributor point has been compromise , ” Kerr said . “ They just added a zombie phantasy . ”
Kerr order the city has is investigating the prank , and has finally scrubbed all the zombie spirit message from the system .
“ Hopefully the next time there is a zombie invasion warning signal , ” Kerr said , “ it will be a actual zombie invasion . ”
[ Palm Beach Post / Lake Worth Live ]
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