Warning Terror Alert

[tamborine]

It flashed on tv during adverts for 2+seconds.....

Did you see same?

[Quizproquo]

what channel?

[tamborine]

19, yesterday

[Quizproquo]

nope, sorry I didn't

[Davemano]

Probably an advert for Harpic or Domestos.

[tamborine]

Yesterday is name of channel. Twas bright green box with black print filling the screen, just before HSL furniture at 7.15 approx.

[Togo]

Yesterday channel is warning of ww2 perhaps.

[Peter Pedant]

s/o pressed the wrong button ?

did happen a few times in the mid west during the cold war
I seem to remember that the code word for nuclear armaggedon was
'hatefulness hatefulness' - are you listening divebuddy ?
and low and behold if you goggle it, you get

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=xantef&;s=9#.VlIh9nbhDrc

[237SJ]

Maybe it was test that was being trialled behind the scenes and was broadcast by mistake. In certain parts of the US, you regularly see test transmissions on TV to warn of trouble (usually weather related)

[DTCwordfan]

maybe gness, mrs o, ummm or cara were on the move......

[Peter Pedant]

a thousand teenagers shuffled nervously as they thought their mothers would march in and demand they tidy their rooms ...

[tamborine]

Am told it was an airport alert. Not sure how it got on my tv.