Hoax nuke blast seen on TV weather

Homerboy

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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WO...rt.crime.ap/index.html


PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Members of a Czech art group who hacked into television broadcasting with images of a hoax nuclear explosion were charged and will have to stand trial, a state prosecutor said Thursday.

A freeze-frame from the Web cam shows an image of a nuclear explosion.

The six members of the Prague-based Ztohoven group were charged last month with spreading false information and face up to three years in jail if convicted, said Dusan Ondracek, the state prosecutor in the northern town of Trutnov, who is in charge of the case.

The trial could begin by the end of January, Ondracek said.
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On June 17, viewers of a Czech television channel watching a Web cam program monitoring weather in various Czech mountain resorts could see a nuclear explosion taking place in the Krkonose or Giant Mountains in the northern Czech Republic.

In December, the project was awarded the NG 333 prize for young artists by Prague's National Gallery together with a cash prize of 333,000
 

her209

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People watching the video didn't question why everything wasn't immediately on fire after the nuclear "explosion"?
 

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Originally posted by: alien42
brilliant, too bad the czech govt apparently has a stick up their arse

In their defense, something like this could cause panic and probably freaked a few people out. If you did this in the US or any other Western Democracy, you'd be charged as well, I'm sure.