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Deadly fugu fish flub prompts emergency warning in Aichi
The Aichi Prefecture city of Gamagori has activated an emergency warning system to alert residents to avoid eating locally purchased fugu (puffer fish) after a mix-up saw toxic parts of the delicacy go on sale.
A supermarket in the city sold five packages of the fish without removing the livers, which can contain a deadly poison.
Three of the potentially lethal specimens have been located, but the other two remain at large, local official Koji Takayanagi said.
"We are calling for residents to avoid eating fugu, using Gamagori city's emergency wireless system," which broadcasts over loudspeakers located around the city, he said.
Also at Asahi Shimbun, NPR, and Time.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @05:09PM (4 children)
When we visited Hyundai in Ulsan, S. Korea, late 1980s, we were taken to various local points of interest. Most of them had loud speakers blaring full time, even in residential areas, you couldn't easily get away from the sound. Our hosts could understand it (we didn't understand Korean) and seemed to tune it out somehow. When I asked what it was about, it seemed like propaganda (pro-government). It was loud and seemed really unpleasant/oppressive to me.
Are public loudspeakers common in other countries?
(Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Wednesday January 17 2018, @05:31PM (1 child)
Do you remember what they were saying?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @06:46PM
About as well as I can remember any long string of nonsense syllables (not at all). It was all in Korean, and as I said I don't understand Korean.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday January 17 2018, @06:54PM
> Are public loudspeakers common in other countries?
The EU recognizes noise as a form of pollution.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday January 17 2018, @09:48PM
It may well have been propaganda. Depending on when you were there, the current government may have been unpopular.
South Korea was run by a series of dictators propped up by the CIA (usually) and is seen even now as a "flawed democracy".