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Florida City Issued a Zombie Warning After Power Outage

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A city in Florida has issued what appears to be some kind of apocalyptic zombie warning. The messages are believed to have been made by a hacker. The location is in Lake Worth, Florida. This area is close to Palm Beach.

The person or persons responsible seem to be getting a kick out of this since it was the second time it happened in recent years. During August 2017, while Hurricane Irma was present…multiple messages were sent out to the locals living in the area.

This year, the public alert message was made on May 20th. At this time, local residents were greeted to cell phone alerts acknowledging that zombies were on the loose and ready to attack. The strange message about zombies left the general public mystified.

The first call happened before 2:00 am, whem residents were warned about the power outages, and informed of a “zombie alert” for Lake Worth and Terminus. The message was sent out looking like a mobile phone alert from Wes Blackman who is an urban city planner.

For those who might not know, Terminus is a fictional train station name used in the popular apocalyptic television series “The Walking Dead”, based on the comic book series of the same name.

The mobile phone message alert left people on the receiving end bewildered…acknowledging something strange must be going on. The Lake Worth area public information officer, Ben Kerr, revealed the real power loss lasted for about 29 minutes on May 20th, and was a small black out affecting only 7,880 homes.

Ben Kerr mentioned the zombie reference, addressing the issue through different social media channels, explaining what had happened, and that there was no need for concern about zombies ravaging the area.

The public alert system obviously was hacked and investigators are trying to track down who is responsible for all of this. During an interview with Gizmodo, Kerr went on to say whoever the culprit was had changed the messages in the system. Back during 2017, the previous zombie messages were removed before being broadcast to the public.

Lake Worth’s electric utility system is setup to send out automatic alerts when there’s an outage. The system has thousands of pre-programmed messages, Kerr explained. But it seems that at some point someone went through and messed with some of the messages to turn them into zombie jokes.

“The actual power systems were not in any way compromised. This is a separate messaging system that at some point has been compromised,” Kerr said. “They just added a zombie fantasy.”

Kerr says the city is investigating the prank, and has finally removed all the zombie messages from the system.

“Hopefully the next time there is a zombie invasion alert,” Kerr said, “it will be a real zombie invasion.”

Source: http://www.freaklore.com/florida-city-issued-zombie-warning-after-power-outage

 

 



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