Stephen makes a case for the Hawaii employee who notified the entire state of an imminent, imaginary ballistic missile.
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Hi. Hawaii resident here. My wife and I were getting ready to leave the house Saturday morning when our phones went off with the ballistic missile alert. All we could do was close up the house and frantically search online to see if it was true or not. There was nothing online and my wife searched how long it would take a ballistic missile to arrive in Hawaii. She said "Fifteen minutes". You know that feeling when you almost get into a bad car accident and your life flashes before your eyes and you begin to appreciate life a bit more? Imagine that for 38 minutes.
yes I have been wondering, all the jokes aside what kind of a horrible feeling it must have been which would for many people have been quietly taken over by a sad acceptance of death. This kind of shit just cannot happen.
There aren't any nuclear shelters anymore. There used to be large numbers of what were claimed to be "shelters" all over the USA, marked by distinctive signs - but these were just stone or concrete buildings of various kinds. They could not have actually saved many people, nor did they have any supplies to sustain anyone. Military and government buildings did sometimes have actual fortified shelters with food and water, but these weren't accessible by the public.
@@hebneh catholic school i went to in Texas had a huge auditorium under the church. Had large containers marked for emergency use only. Markings on containers were US government.
We’re a lot of people heading out on boats ? I wonder if you could survive like that?
I honestly can’t imagine the emotional roller coaster that the people of Hawaii went through in those moments.
It was not a fun half-hour. Most of the people I know sat on their lanai (porch) awaiting death.
Wow, I don’t know how to respond to that. 🤐
Yeah especially if you know how fast ICBM's are. A missile from NK to Hawaii would take under 30 minutes, so by the time you get an alert there's really nothing you can do unless you have a proper shelter within a few miles. I'm shocked a lot more people didn't do things that they'd regret in that time.
You can expect a lot of October babies here (luckily I'm not expecting)
Keerthan Manjunath here’s a video log of someone in Hawaii at the time kzhead.info/sun/isqcZMWQmIiVhK8/bejne.html
This kind of shit is dangerous. With the prevalence of depression in this country, you just know there's at least one person out there who went "Welp, this is it!" and shuffled themselves off. Not to mention that it undermines trust in the whole system! And god damn, it's just bad UI/UX design! The 'Are you sure' confirmation should INCLUDE which option it is you selected. 'Are you sure?' does nothing to tell the employee whether they selected missile alert or missile alert _test_ which kinda defeats the purpose of a confirmation!!! As for why it took Trump so long to react to the situation...I think we all know he was trying to figure out whether or not Hawaii is a state.
Bakamoichigei the first thing that came to my mind was: "I hope no one killed themselves to avoid dying by a nuclear strike" :/ that’s truly horrible.
He told his chief of staff to order paper towels to throw at the survivors a few weeks later.
It was probably one of those ads that pop up right before you clock on something just to make you mis-click.
Why would you kill yourself if you're gonna die anyway?
I'm from Hawaii and the 38 minutes of confusion was not how I wanted to start my Saturday morning.
Must have been awful. We pity you, seriously. But I'm thinking, you already live in paradise. Personally, I expect to go to Hawaii AFTER the nuke gets me.
unless the smaller person bring a gun to a fist fight... it doesnot matter how big and powerful you are, someday someone is going to kick you around the block and you wont even know what hit you. so yeah, while your idea its acceptable to a school yard, I dont think on the real world it would work that way.
I guess DT you are a typical trump voter, with no basic knowledge on how the world really works. Sooo you saw my youtube videos and just because it happens I like playing games in your quotes i must be "lobotomized cognitively impaired snail". Well you just updated my definitiion of idiot youtube comment. Congratz on doing a great job, you must be a pretty good doctor to think like that, or a rage filled moron that spend most of his time trying to draw attention to itself. Congratz, really you earn it. now go bother someone else, because I'm not responsible for the moron you guys put as POTUS.
btw, on a nuclear attack, it doesnot matter who started it. both sides lose.
oh but you are wrong there, not only I read your comment but also you are missing the whole point on mine, and still is. even if the US has a better/bigger nuclear arsenal than NK. It wont really matter who started it. You argue that "doesn't make sense for the smaller person to stomp on the toe" but actually it pretty much do if your oponent is not treating you with respect you deserve. Once the nukes are in the air, it doesn't matter where they will land, everyone loses. So instead of thinking NK will never attack the US mainland, you should remmeber that from the past 50 years the US goverment acted as the bully on the school yard, going and hitting everyone as they pleased.
That "end-of-the-world" joke made me wonder... will there be a baby boom in Hawaii in 9 months? :D
I know what I'd be doing. Cum and go at the same time
That’s a poorly designed interface..
A confirmation that doesn't tell you what you're confirming strikes me as _stupendously_ bad UI/UX. We're talking "Fire that designer... _into the sun!"_ bad.
Yeah, no kidding. That dialog box should have said something like, "Are you really, REALLY sure that you want to send out an actual, not a drill, incoming missile alert?
I see you want send out a ballistic missile push alert. Are you sure this isn't a drill?
+DesertDaisy Marie ~ It's actually quite remarkable this doesn't happen on the regular, with that setup.
A better one is: You have armed the actual missile warning system. Click cancel if you only test the system.
people here in hawai`i reacted in diverse ways that often reflected their lives: my local wife was trying not to freak initially, but soon became suspicious like me finding it odd that the air raid sirens weren't going off, nor any interruption or change in tv, radio or internet broadcasting. soon we were all just pissed at how stupid the warning was because it was completely worthless! "stay indoors?" not more helpful than a nightlight. the thought that "so this is how it goes down..." crossed my mind- but soon it was just pissed that canadians or other nations aren't living in this type of threat because they don't operate like the USA! this is life on military colonies like hawai`i, okinawa, guam, etc. where we live everyday a potential target or accident due to the concentration of military here- for interests very far away from here. i worked at a low-income farmer's market soon after the alert was cleared. mostly impoverished immigrants & hawaiians that survive day to day anyway, or elderly- many who have lived through US wars...the mood was like mine- irritated that governments pursue militarism & war, often bringing the wars of washington and other capitols- to shores like that of pu`uloa, aka "pearl harbor." but then we heard stories of people freaking out on the road and many of our friend's teen children having anxiety and panic attacks- heartbreaking. this is not security- war is the absolute failure of leadership, but many of us in hawai`i expect no less from the one nation that invaded hawai`i, overthrew & never restored justice the nation of hawa`i- we continue to be sacrificed for the US empire, but we continue ku i ka pono- fight for justice. this false alarm was just another friendly fire against civilians of another occupied indigenous nation, relax people...
I am Canadian, and I am terrified everyday. We are all in this Hell ride together. We will catch all the fallout, even if we are not directly hit in an exchange of missiles. And if the US decides that , in the aftermath of an attack, it needs our resources, the US government will feel completely fine about coming up here and taking everything WE have at gunpoint. The US government does not have the morals or ethics of a rabid alley cat.
Sandra Nelson im a rabid alley cat and im offended by this statement.😼🙀😿😹
Why did you have to specify your "local" wife? Got an out-of-towner as well?
Quit bitching and solve the problem.
uchinanju actually is was a dumb ass Hawaiian that hit the wrong button. Maybe he was to high on all the weed smoke or had musubi grease on their fingers and hit wrong button.
That's absolutely right. He's the only one on the whole planet that will never ever make that mistake again.
I'm sure Lilo, Stitch and Jumba would have handled it if there really was a missile.
didn't you know? Stitch went to China in "Stitch and Ai", Hawaii is doomed.
As long as Jumba is there, nothing to fear.
Shit, I forgot Lilo and Stitch existed
Lol Lilo's on her own in Hawaii now, the rest moved to Japan to live with a girl called Yuna
"Handled" is a....generous word, but probably applicable nonetheless. A couple experiments will get loose. The ballistic missile would be intercepted, probably accidentally eaten, and Nani's collection of grey hairs would skyrocket, but yeah, the end of the incident would see it resolved 😂
"It's a state thing", interesting response from the President. He doesn't mind commenting on things, which occured in other countries, but yet something that occurred in one of his states is none of his business....
For the love of god don't encourage the pumpkin man to be active, encourage him to sleep, encourage him to play angry birds and tell him theres a burger truck out in the parking lot, the less he does the better.
State thing? Inbound ballistic missile? Is there some sort of disconnect here? Shouldn't that be a federal thing?
If there was a missile the military sends a call to the state Emergency Management Agency, which sends an alert (sirens, radio, tv, notifications) to us. Every state has different possible emergency situations to deal with (Hawaii has hurricanes, tsunamis, etc), so its really up to every state to be in charge. Hawaii also has monthly drills and siren checks. EMA deals with the communication aspect rather than the scanning of the skies for missiles part.
Well that makes sense, thanks for the clarification.
State and county Emergency Managers tend to be the real authority behind public alerts in your AO
it's a state thing when it might interrupt his golf game
*scrolling down to the comments* "Are you sure you wanna do this?"
Tiia Mannix yeah because I wanna see u beautiful
Should a been written on the 2016 presidential ballot
Fallout 4: Hawaii DLC
Yeah, really. Let us not forget that it's _literal Fallout canon_ that many of the Vaults sealed themselves up either empty or far under capacity, because people grew tired of countless drills and false alarms!!!
I think this is a super cool idea I'd like to see some crazy ocean mirelurks, maybe some kind of Octupus boss fight
Lucifer Morningstar bwahaha, let Bethesda know I can work with them. I’ve been writing scripts and scenarios with that exact idea. The next fallout will be Hawaii. 🤙🏽
then after that Fallout 5: VR edition, except it's not virtual
Am I crazy or have I already seen a mod for that?! But no joke, I want to send love to the people of Hawaii. That must have been a pretty terrifying moment for them.
Also maybe, fire the guy provoking North Korea, whereby making the whole "imminent ballistic missile" thing seem plausible in the first place! That alert would have been a hell of a lot less panic inducing, if "someone" wasn't constantly calling Kim Jong Un a tubby looser and daring him to do something about it, like a fucking 10 year old.
This is a wake up call to humanity. Nuclear attacks would cause tremendous catastrophe for the planet. It can also be the of ourselves and those we love, in a matter of seconds. The one and only way is through open dialog, and a focus on unity. We also have the terrible condition in which our desire for "convenience" is costing the future. I for sure would not want kids of tomorrow to live a radioactive wasteland, simply because of selfishness. It just doesn't justify. If we are evolved, it's time to show it.
545 megatons have already been detonated in the atmosphere and the sea without devastating effects for the world. The most likely scenario is still a limited nuclear exchange between Russia and NATO.
Angel Pendragon Unfortunately there's nothing we can do about it. It's coming regardless. We are doomed.
Angel Pendragon don't be stupid most nuclear weapons basically run on outdated technology of 19th century so that it can't be hacked by an hacker and a world war 3 starts government is not that stupid.
Nuclear attacks would be really really bad. Wow, what profound fucking wisdom. I had never considered that.
There's a pretty easy way out of it: Get rid of trump so you don't have a senile orange with the sense of an 8 year old technically in charge of launching them...You just made nuclear war a pretty much non-existent threat again.
My daughter, husband, and new grandbaby live on an island in the Pacific (much closer to NK than Hawaii) and while they haven't had a false alarm, they have had to drill on what to do. It's a scary thing but as necessary as a tsunami drill. And #DelusionalDonnie it's not a State thing because YOU are the one responsible for ratcheteding up the situation to the point it is needed.
Trump 2020
MFOX.C how did you know that’s the amount of years in jail his sentence will be 🤔
lasarith2 🤣🤣🤣 Yeah I doubt he'll make it to 2020!
Tsunami drill seems more realistic but missile with nuclear and you on an island just send love to family and follow government guideline Duck, Rolls and cover..shhhh don't ask the Japanese what do they know.
+TheBioExplorer Really think about it. How'd you go about a state wide nuclear drill? It'll probably even cause casualties just with the traffic accidents getting to the shelters. It can also make some morons assume it is a drill when it turns out to be the real thing. I think there should be more education on the protocols for such things but such a drill would be quite risky.
I don’t understand how the Pentagon didn’t know this. I’m glad Trump didn’t know or he would have gotten out his “BIG BUTTON”, then H.R. McMaster and John Kelly would have to play “Hide the Nuclear Football”. 😳
Just imagine nuclear war starting in a darker alarm. SAD
"Hide the Nuclear Football" -- sounds pretty kinky. Does that occur during "Executive Time?" 😉
Slutty McTits Thank goodness a military person carries the football. But trump has the biscuit (nuke codes) in his pocket 24/7. Hope he doesn’t mistake it for food if he runs out of Big Macs. SAD, SO SAD
In the Honolulu Star Advertiser they showed a timeline of what happened. The military did confirm to the state officials that no missile was inbound after 8 minutes (not sure of the exact minutes). The reason for the 38 minutes is because the national security alert system doesn't have a means of retraction or saying "oops". Hawaii officials had to get permission from FEMA to send out the retraction. When I heard this on the radio, I wasn't worried at all. Just because North Korea can launch a missile, it doesn't mean they can hit what they want to hit. Has anybody seen NK hit a target yet? They can barely get the missile off the ground, I doubt they care about targeting. Not to mention, I didn't have anywhere to go to seek shelter from a nuclear blast.
R Age I agree on not knowing where to go. If they ever reach the ability to make a Hydrogen Bomb small enough for the missiles they use then hiding wouldn’t be an option. Been said they get nuclear weapons info and some products from China and Russia (surprise). I’m pretty sure they didn’t sell him everything. Want to protect themselves.
I went downstairs, grabbed yogurt, and sat down to watch anime in my final moments.
Hero.
I was scrambling trying to get stuff together then I saw my son watching gumball on tv so sat down with him
Hey Homura? Don’t forget to be with Madoka.
I got that alert on my phone and was hesitant at first because the sirens weren't going off. But then again, if it were real, there wouldn't be much time to doubt it. That's the scary thing. We would have only 15 minutes before the missile hits - what would you do in such short time? Almost like the U.S. being on high alert during the Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis. Really scary stuff. I was pissed and relieved that it was just a false alarm. Pissed because how can anyone screw that up? And relieved because we don't want to live through another Pearl Harbor attack.
As my father would say during the Cold War, "Just bend over and kiss your ass goodbye, we live within 40 mi. of X, you won't have to worry about surviving..."
Unbounded mobile codgers
But.. Hawaii is an Island, Donny. Surrounded by water. 'Big water'. I thought that was the one thing that prevented you from 'helping'.. remember?
New Message lol
Trump knew about the alert being incorrect within five minutes. He was golfing. He did not Tweet about it. He did not announce it. He simply went back to golfing.
He does not like to be interrupted when he is on the green. He didn't find out until after he lied about having another perfect game. 18 holes in one. Amazing!
So he pretty much did the same thing bush did after 9/11. Great. I am so "glad" he's our president.
Well, Hawaii's electoral votes didn't go to him so he didn't care.
Patrick Hogan to be fair. He's an idiot
Trump had a big bet on the green you can't just interrupt Trump golf game like that are you people serious have some self dignity about yourself!
1:45, amen. I wish more people would get it that the person who makes a mistake, learns to not repeat it. Reassign those who prove they don't learn from mistakes.
Last time a user interface was this bad, La La Land almost won Best Picture...
Now you had a tast of what people in the Middle East go through only theirs is not a false alarm.
Master Joe Kerr smh you're apart of the problem. Disgusting soul.
Soldiers around the world risk their lives to fight isis and all evil and you disrespect that.
+Master Joe Kerr And you believe that the entirety of the Middle East consists of terrorists. That's not even at the level of prejudice, that's just a basic lack of common sense.
The U.S. conducts military operations in less than half of the middle east. Many of them are our allies. You're a bleeding heart liberal who thinks fighting evil makes you worse than evil.
0:31 He meant "send nukes".
This is the best Hawaii comedy news yet! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The writing and Stephen's skills make this show truly a notch above anything else out there. I can see him dominate late night TV for years to come.
Shut the fuck up.
While I like Colbert, I think this iteration of his show feels pretty dumbed-down compared to the Colbert Report. I don't know if it's the network, if it's the fact he legally can't use his old character, or if it's just that Trump's dumb antics call for dumber jokes, but I hope that his show gets more clever and less singleminded after the Trump administration ends.
Maybe y'all heard, the other day, about trump and his 'probably' very good relationship with kim jong un. And that he'd be open to talking to him, something many question the wisdom of, which seems very unfair, shouldn't he be allowed to express his feelings? Just picture trump one gloomy evening, all alone in his office, Melania cozying up for the night safe in her private bunker. A forlorn look comes over his face, a sigh escapes his plump torso . . . and then he does it! He picks up the phone, he dials, and before kim even has the chance to properly answer, trump is breathlessly declaring : I just called to say I love you I just called to say how much I care I just called to say I love you And I mean it from the button on my desk
camelshit reading this while being high is magical
camelshit 😂
The same special relation he supposedly got with Putin who handed him the Presidency according to leftist conspiracy theory?
Stephen, what would we do without you and your team? You bring levity and laughter to our lives everyday. I can't stay up late enough to watch you on a work-night, but I come here every evening to get some deep healing belly laughs!
How do you NOT get fired for something like that? I work in warehousing, and Ive seen people fired for knocking over a box...
Scorch428 loool
I'd fire the guy who designed that user interface. Chances are the VERY SAME "Are you sure you want to do this?" warning confirmation pops up when you choose "Test Missile Alert" from the drop-down menu. You can't even be sure what "this" means, if you don't know you accidentally clicked on the wrong menu option.
For the same reason that automatic car wash has killed a person, see news, when he got out of car and got stuck. (If you knocked over a box, and there's a person nearby, it is called causing harm. People lives are more important than petty things. The guy messed up, but no one died, it is better to be safer than sorry.)
This is gold!
This mistake was a good thing because it became APPARENT NO ONE knew what to do EVEN on military bases. Maybe NOW they can educate people on what to do when it happens again. I cannot believe the lack of communication. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO OR WHERE TO GO IF IT HAPPENS WHERE YOU LIVE? Everything happens for a reason and firing this person would serve no purpose. EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES AND COMPUTERS MAKE IT SO MUCH EASIER TO MAKE ONE.
ooh ooh I know! I read an old pamphlet on this! it said to hide under my wooden desk in school! :)
+Terry Hazelett Whenever there's a story like this, I like to go online and try to either listen to a local radio station or watch local TV rather than the national outlets. Anyhow, one of the Honolulu TV stations was livestreaming and it just blew my mind how many people that were interviewed had no freakin' idea what to do. And that included emergency personnel!
Solid coverage!
He always had to say whether he had a part in something or not, if it was good he took the credit or said he wished he could, if it was bad he'd always say" I didn't have a part in this"
Best prank ever! comedy gold.
Fire the coder who made that. I hope Trump's big red button isn't coded the same way.
Don't know if the coder is to blame exactly, it's who decided a drop down menu was a good idea for that. If the coder was told specifically to make that by someone higher up I don't know that they had a choice.
I agree. This is bad interaction design. I would have the "Test" and "Emergency" as two seperate menu's, minimum.
Angry Kittens luckily it’s much better, in fact it’s a not as simple as a big ol button
I hope Trump's "real" button IS coded for test
Angry Kittens he wasn't fired. He was reassigned to another position.
It took that long to issue a false alarm because the IT guy had to write a script and upload it on dialup.
Too realistic to be a joke... unless you're serious.
It's not a joke.
The fact that that is realistic terrifies me. Thank god I'm not in the US.
thank you colbert
Man you're god damn awesome! Love you Stephen!😍😍😘😘😘
Loved the Hawaii video on colbert
BRILLIANT
what's the difference between Kim Jung Un and pizza hut? Pizza hut can deliver a crispy Hawaiian in less than 30 minutes. ..... I'm sorry .....
I heard it would only take about 20 minutes for an ICBM to go from Korea to Hawaii.
Dude. Not funny. Never funny.
borot man it's funny because it's not funny
Not funny.
Not the funniest but ur still a genius
Now the last alert 🚨 would be useful!!! Haha 🤣
“Are you sure this is what you want?” was the best safeguard against this? Should have made that person select all the squares with a bus in it and then half a dozen rounds of captcha like my bank requires. 😂
It wasn't an accidental click in a drop down menu, though. In an interview, the guy said he was convinced it was real and not a drill, that he wouldn't have acted differently in the same situation today, and that he felt he was just following protocol.
"Do you think there's a heaven"😂😂
Yup, it a very interesting morning for sure.
A lot of fear and anguish was caused, and not a single decision maker in this bureaucracy will be held to account.
2:54 that voice crack lol 😂
You called it Steven!
You are awesome!
He was scapegoated. He acted on protocol with misinformation sent to him.
Holy crap!
That Don Ho skit was funny too 😂
To Hawaiians 🙂 Probably a good idea to have a backpack 🎒 ready for something like this with water, battery charger/s (food) media kit, and necessities- and have a plan on where to head if told to, though I hope you never ever have to use it, Since it all depends on how close to the initial blast you are. Your best bet is to get a hazmat suit, a Geiger counter , and stay put unless directed otherwise.
Oh believe me we know. Since Hawaii is the closest US state to North Korea, and with everything happening in the news, nuclear attacks are something we think about quite often. The EMA actually does frequent town halls and community out reach for that reason.
Shannon Manamtam I just hope you guys stay safe 🙂
Shannon Manamtam I agree. And although it is not a state, Guam is the closest US territory to NK and I think they should all be prepared too.
lasarith2 I live in London and I have one of those prepared, bc Russia isn't far from the UK. I understand that it is unlikely that Russia will Nuke London, but always be prepared, wherever you live.
Random British Person Aye, sad state of affairs that we even have to think about it : /
Now this is the Stephen Colbert Comedy I remember.
The scariest thing about a nuclear threat as a teacher is that you are expected to lock yourself in a room with your students for up to 2 weeks.
I live on Oahu, and the one thing that NO media outlet have reported, is that AT&T phones did NOT get the broadcast! Slept in a bit late on Sat, me and my wife never knew about it till early afternoon. 3 phones, mine, hers and work... None of then got an alert and all 3 on AT&T. Guess AT&T tried to keep that on the down low and not get themselfs into the limelight.
It wasn't due to At&T; some phones of all carriers did not get the alarms.
I agree. He won't ever make that mistake again.
Donald Trump wants to get involved. Seek shelter immediately. LMAO 😂😂😂😂🤣
His sounds like an episode of the Simpsons when homer accidentally pushed the wrong button! Hilarious!
Ur telln me!!!... I was scared 💩less
At least they got a genuine reaction to a "drill", which is usually not the case...
I wonder how many people died from heart attack or did something horrible, stupid or irreversible after reading that message. Scary as hell! But this Stephen's bit is actually very funny.
Aloha Hawaiians reading this. Hope you're all having a great day.
You do know that aloha means hello and goodbye, right?
@@andmos1001 yes
People on the Continent forget that most local residents are a single generation removed from the attack on Pearl Harbor (my grandmother remembers going to school everyday carrying a gas mask with her book bag). We live with the repercussions of what the American government (whose wealthy businessmen backed by the military, illegally overthrew the Hawaiian government, btw) does in real time. While I personally didn't see the type of panic the nation heard about, there was at least a small window of confusion, fear, helplessness, and despair that took hold before we knew what was going on. When we knew we were safe, I shed a tear, hugged my wife, and we went about our day volunteering at a community taro patch and potlucking with our loved ones. We were happy to be with our 'ohana and the land that feeds us but at no point were we laughing. The stereotypes played out here and on national tv and the recollection of what it felt like on that day saddens me to my core. Much Aloha to you, Stephen. I love your show and how fierce you are in your criticism of the country's supposed leader, but the historical trauma of my people is not a punchline.
As always, Trump was golfing and then eating lunch at the golf course. I wonder if he even put his fork down when he was told the news of the Hawaiian missile alert? SAD!
He uses a fork?
Stephen, love your show. But I wanna correct something: people who live in Hawaii are not all Hawaiians, they're Hawaii residents. Hawaiians are people of Native Hawaiian ancestry.
kate Get a life.
No, Kate is right. People need to understand that Hawaiian is an ethnicity. Also, people like you, Carol, need to stop being rude.
well, you see, i am actually native hawaiian, so it kinda is my life.
Husband: Honey we have been married for 20 years and now we have 20 minutes to live. Wife: Yea so what's your point Husband: I have been having an affair with your sister and your cousin. Wife:Well that's ok, I have been having an affair with your brother and sister.
Brandon Johnson Wait, are those that are related getting involved with each other?
Legit. Divorce rates will be up for awhile. ;)
+David Beppler And maybe birth rates, too.
Gotta love the airport worker who went to her supervisor to ask where the nearest shelter was. After being told that he knew of no such structure, she asked him what she should do and was told to 'Pray'. Colbert's gag writers can't even begin to compete with black comedy gold like that.
This is more of a software design issue.
DROP DOWN MENU LMAOOOOOOO
I live in Hawaii and I slept through this.
Us Hawaiians were scared asf!! Brahhh 😂😂😂😂
Lol exactly. He'll never do it again.
Agree, he won't make that mistake again
The Kim's Mom story surprisingly a good analogy for what happened
I think somethings wrong with me, because I live in Hawaii and I went back to sleep after getting the alert
Honestly that's the sanest response, imo. Because it's like, fuck it, what can you do? If there really were an incoming ICBM, probably better to just be vaporized sleeping peacefully than to spend your remaining minutes of existence dwelling in pointless existential terror.
Bakamoichigei. I would have at least made a sandwich.
Micheal Vanderpool Haha! Nice. +1
Bakamoichigei. Would of put some "nuclear grade" hot mustard on it!
That would be the sanest if those missiles had an infinite blast radius... As you can survive outside of the blast, sleeping through it would reduce your chances there.
A DROP DOWN MENU!?! the question shouldn't be "how did this happen?" the question should be "how did this not happen sooner?"
This is Missild alert should serve as a reminder of what to do in case of an attack.
i actually agree, that guy would never make that mistake ever again he really should be left there
He still should be sanctionned but maybe not fired. A cut on his salary for the next 10 generations maybe?
Good one. So funny .lolll
It’s only happened once so objectively the system is pretty effective at preventing false alerts...you can certainly modify it to make it less likely however it’s worth noting that in a real emergency this message needs to be sent with zero delay as it would only take 20 minutes for a missile to reach Hawaii with the first 5 ish minutes needed for US PACOM to evaluate the threat. So when the individual responsible is told to send the alert a missile is literally 12-15 MINUTES away from hitting the island. The process needs to be easy and instantaneous while also preventing false alarms.
"We'll be getting involved with them" rofl trumps like the godfather
ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT MEME WHENEVER I OPEN INTERNET
Craziness but any more craziness seems normal
well... I can watch Colbert on the internet... so clearly some good things happen on the internet...
I literally thought So this it this is the way I die.
Fire him? Nope...give him a job at the White House air raid warning center. I want to see Trump running like this for his bunker....😂😂😂
How is it possible for a single person to sound such an extensive alarm? How can you have no fail safes in place for such events? Considering the likelihood that the majority of actions will be a test, it boggles the mind how inept the people who run such systems are.
Its an most likely American designed and cobbled together system, probably done really cheaply & fast since the egocentric Orange got in, and had some less able, republican-a-like supporter & flunky business friend handle the contract; because any federal or other state or real republican or democratic company doing the work "..is not good enough for this (DJT/faketanned & fakenewsing) President." - I am jokingly hypothesizing what excuse they'd use.
The Hawaii Emergency logo looks like a South Park episode.... Duck & Cover !!!
#fakenukes
to quote the stones, devo and others.....I'm a walking disaster, .........seek shelter, this is not a drill!
Bloody hell, that is one poorly coded user interface. Imagine if it had been the other way round, if an actual missile was on its way and the operator had accidentally pressed the test option instead. If people's lives are at risk, a system like this needs to be fool proof. And what's up with them not being able to send custom messages? An a case of emergency, surely it'd be better for those in charge to convey as much information as possible.
I was so scared, I live there and my heart stopped
if they are bashing on hawaii's government for how unprepared they were in these kinds of situations it just goes to show or at least makes you wonder how prepared are the other states or our entire country? because the threat of a nuclear war is slightly a real possibility especially with threats coming from North Korea and Russia. it maybe a joke to people from other states, that a mistake was made that caused widespread panic, but remember it caused a "WIDESPREAD PANIC" so imagine people running around having anxiety and panicking thinking that they were going to DIE that day. i imagine it would not be a pleasant feeling so instead of making fun of the government look at the bigger picture. this mistake shows just everyone else that they should make preparations if there were to be a worst case scenario.
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I recommend this Hawaii error be woven in to an episode of Black Mirror, an all immersive state of emergency via human error either an accident or simulation possibly real and resulting PTSD slash real world consequences is an episode that writes itself.
Two lines in the same dropdown menu is a poor design choice, if true. But more to the point: There should be a 4-eyes acknowledgement before sending out the real thing, shouldn't there? It shouldn't be possible for one person to screw up something that big. 4-eyes is not fool-proof, of course, but at least 2 guys should be in trouble now.