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posted by takyon on Sunday January 14 2018, @09:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the oopsday dept.

A few minutes ago, phones across Hawaii received the above emergency alert about a "ballistic missile threat inbound," but according to state officials it isn't true. US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii's [governor] David Ige and the state's Hawaii Emergency Management Agency all chimed in on Twitter to confirm the alert is false. It took 38 minutes before a second alert reached phones, confirming that the first one was a mistake.

Honolulu police confirmed in a post that "State Warning Point has issued a Missile Alert in ERROR!," while Buzzfeed reporter Amber Jamieson tweets that one EMA employee said it was a part of a drill. US Senator from Hawaii Brian Schatz said the "inexcusable" alert "was a false alarm based on a human error" while the National Weather Service called it a "test message."

The governor said on CNN that "It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the change over of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button."

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/13/hawaii-missile-eas/


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 14 2018, @11:25PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday January 14 2018, @11:25PM (#622317) Homepage Journal

    I love Twitter, it's so easy to tweet! I tweet from my phone, it's so easy to carry my phone. For our nuclear arsenal, there's a suitcase, they call it a football but it's a suitcase. You wouldn't want to play football with it, it's very heavy (the guys in our NFL don't want to play football anyway). And a guy follows me everywhere with that suitcase. Let me tell you, I don't mind. But if I want to, I can launch my missiles with a tweet. Because my tweets are orders to my military. Remember when I ordered the transgenders out of my military? I did it with tweets. With a series of tweets. Now that we have longer tweets, I could do it in one tweet! And believe me, what I tweet about the nuclear is official. If I tweet "lunch," they have lunch. If I tweet "launch," they launch. I'm MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL.

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