« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Author Topic: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?  (Read 845 times)

Offline ozrocker

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3640
Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« on: May 21, 2014, 06:38:17 PM »
Alien voice takes over BBC TV News.

http://youtu.be/afXKOt3A0xc



                                                                                                                                                      :cheers: Oz
Logged
Flying and dying since Tour 29
The world is grown so bad. That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.- Shakespeare
 
30% Disabled Vet  US ARMY- 11C2H 2/32 AR. 3rd AD, 3/67AR. 2nd AD, 2/64 AR. 3rd ID, ABGD Command TRADOC, 1/16th INF. 1st ID

Offline GScholz

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 8910
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2014, 07:50:56 PM »
No, and neither should you if you know what's good for you!
Logged
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."

Offline ozrocker

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3640
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2014, 06:10:18 AM »
Lol, I just thought it was pretty freaky :aok



                                                                                                                                                   :cheers: Oz
Logged
Flying and dying since Tour 29
The world is grown so bad. That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.- Shakespeare
 
30% Disabled Vet  US ARMY- 11C2H 2/32 AR. 3rd AD, 3/67AR. 2nd AD, 2/64 AR. 3rd ID, ABGD Command TRADOC, 1/16th INF. 1st ID

Offline Shifty

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 9377
      • 307th FS
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2014, 07:27:39 AM »
Funny how the Alien has a British Accent..
Logged

JG-11"Black Hearts"...nur die Stolzen, nur die Starken

"Haji may have blown my legs off but I'm still a stud"~ SPC Thomas Vandeventer Delta1/5 1st CAV

Offline -ammo-

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 5124
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2014, 10:10:14 AM »
You mean that isn't for real?
Logged
Commanding Officer, 56 Fighter Group
Retired USAF - 1988 - 2011

Offline smoe

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 941
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2014, 10:39:41 AM »
Quote from: Shifty on May 22, 2014, 07:27:39 AM
Funny how the Alien has a British Accent..

Also has good grammar skills.
Logged

Offline danny76

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2583
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2014, 10:51:39 AM »
More importantly Bishop Muzorewa claiming that Rhodesian Dissident forces would stop executing POW's.

Cobblers :old:

Logged
"You kill 'em all, I'll eat the BATCO!"
The GFC

"Not within a thousand years will man ever fly" - Wilbur Wright

Offline zack1234

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 13217
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2014, 11:48:32 AM »
I am from Uganda :old:
Logged
There are no pies stored in this plane overnight

                          
The GFC
Pipz lived in the Wilderness near Ontario

Offline GScholz

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 8910
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2014, 12:21:13 PM »
Logged
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."

Offline ozrocker

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3640
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2014, 07:35:37 PM »
I bet the BBC was trying to figure out how it happened :rofl


Here's the wiki story behind it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Television_broadcast_interruption



                                                                                                                                                   :cheers: Oz
« Last Edit: May 22, 2014, 07:37:38 PM by ozrocker »
Logged
Flying and dying since Tour 29
The world is grown so bad. That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.- Shakespeare
 
30% Disabled Vet  US ARMY- 11C2H 2/32 AR. 3rd AD, 3/67AR. 2nd AD, 2/64 AR. 3rd ID, ABGD Command TRADOC, 1/16th INF. 1st ID

Offline FLOOB

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3058
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2014, 09:54:55 PM »
They never caught the max headroom hijacker and he did it twice, with audio and video signal.
Logged
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans” - John Steinbeck

Offline danny76

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2583
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2014, 01:51:12 AM »
Quote from: zack1234 on May 22, 2014, 11:48:32 AM
I am from Uganda :old:

You would be surprised by my lack of surprise :old:
Logged
"You kill 'em all, I'll eat the BATCO!"
The GFC

"Not within a thousand years will man ever fly" - Wilbur Wright

Offline zack1234

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 13217
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2014, 02:13:47 AM »
Yes

And Yambo!
Logged
There are no pies stored in this plane overnight

                          
The GFC
Pipz lived in the Wilderness near Ontario

Offline danny76

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2583
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2014, 02:56:48 AM »
Quote from: zack1234 on May 23, 2014, 02:13:47 AM
Yes

And Yambo!

Mrs Danny used to run Backpackers in Kampala :old:
Logged
"You kill 'em all, I'll eat the BATCO!"
The GFC

"Not within a thousand years will man ever fly" - Wilbur Wright

Offline mbailey

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 5677
Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2014, 05:41:18 AM »
Quote from: GScholz on May 21, 2014, 07:50:56 PM
No, and neither should you if you know what's good for you!
:lol
Logged
Mbailey
80th FS "Headhunters"
Ichi Go Ichi E
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

When the game is over, the Kings and Pawns all go into the same box.
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »