TODAYS TOP STORY: Friend of a friend says “BOO!”. Oahu trembles in fear.
According to Websters, a RUMOR is “talk or opinion widely disseminated with no discernible source”.
OK now pay attention.
No one can accurately predict earthquakes.
Yet despite that FACT, the RUMOR of an impending 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami was enough to send a large portion of Oahu’s population scrambling for gas and high ground. Everyone heard it from someone who saw it on the news, or knows somebody who knows somebody who works at Civil Defense. One person even said a friend of theirs heard it from a psychic this past Friday.
A psychic.
This town needs an enema.
I have yet to hear of ANYONE who says they got that information firsthand. You’d like to think people would take the time to at least verify the warning before taking such drastic action as packing up some belongings and heading for high ground. The usual response to that is, of course, “better safe than sorry”.
Better safe than stupid.
Jesus fucking Christ. It can’t even rain here without Honolulu buttoning themselves inside their homes and traffic slowing to a crawl. I grew up in the wettest city in the United States. It’s just water people. You won’t melt.
I could probably sit here and vent some more, but a friend of someone I know who had a girlfriend that once went to school with someone who joined the military and went to basic training with some guy that now works for the Department of Defense says that North Korea has launched a nuclear missile at Hawaii.
I have to go “duck and cover”.
Links to the REAL news story:
Earthquake, tsunami hoax alarms hundreds on Oahu
Earthquake hoax concerns authorities
