Brickbat: Oops, Wrong Button

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During a drill, New Jersey's State Office of Emergency Management accidentally issued an emergency alert for a nuclear plant in Salem County. While the plant's emergency sirens did not sound, many people saw the alert on TV.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The joke's on you because when the core actually does melt down there will be no power to sound the horn.

[Libertarian]

Are you sure this didn't happen in Bedford?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOll3v55Dmo

[some guy]

Come on Charles. Nuclear plants can't explode like nuclear bombs. Show a picture of the elephant's foot or something next time.

[Pompey:? Class Mothersmucker]

But it's NUKULAR, okay? Get it now???

[Citizen X - #6]

Chernobyl! Three-Mile Island! FUKUSHIMA! Squawk!

[Longtobefree]

1. We now know mistakes are made at nuclear power plants.
2. We now know the emergency warnings are worded so generically as to be meaningless in an emergency.
3. We now know the drills expose errors, not confirm proper procedures.
4. We now know web sites pick scary pictures to give false impressions and up the click count
5. We know nothing new.

[$park? leftist poser]

6. We now know that many Internet commenters have no sense of humor.

[Libertarian]

"We now know the drills expose errors"

Um, isn't that a reason to have drills?

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[buybuydandavis]

The Russians stole my comment!

[pan fried wylie]

I was working under the assumption that your comment was just nuclear in scale.

[Radioactive]

oh come on, there's just so many buttons and lights and shit, how is anybody supposed to know what they all do? i mean technology, am I right?

[Radioactive]

like anyone in their right mind would trust the state of NJ to be able to take a shit correctly, let alone run a nuclear drill...

[Fuck you, Shikha (Nunya)]

Springfield lets homer run theirs.