Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ozrocker on May 21, 2014, 06:38:17 PM

Title: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: ozrocker on May 21, 2014, 06:38:17 PM: Alien voice takes over BBC TV News.

http://youtu.be/afXKOt3A0xc

:cheers: Oz
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: GScholz on May 21, 2014, 07:50:56 PM: No, and neither should you if you know what's good for you!
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: ozrocker on May 22, 2014, 06:10:18 AM: Lol, I just thought it was pretty freaky :aok

:cheers: Oz
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: Shifty on May 22, 2014, 07:27:39 AM: Funny how the Alien has a British Accent..
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: -ammo- on May 22, 2014, 10:10:14 AM: You mean that isn't for real?
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: smoe 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.
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: danny76 on May 22, 2014, 10:51:39 AM: More importantly Bishop Muzorewa claiming that Rhodesian Dissident forces would stop executing POW's.

Cobblers :old:
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: zack1234 on May 22, 2014, 11:48:32 AM: I am from Uganda :old:
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: GScholz on May 22, 2014, 12:21:13 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oftMkk2Bcgg
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: ozrocker 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
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: FLOOB 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.
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: danny76 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:
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: zack1234 on May 23, 2014, 02:13:47 AM: Yes

And Yambo!
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: danny76 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:
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: mbailey 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
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: zack1234 on May 24, 2014, 04:35:52 AM: Quote from: danny76 on May 23, 2014, 02:56:48 AM
Mrs Danny used to run Backpackers in Kampala :old:

Ungawa
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: danny76 on May 24, 2014, 05:16:18 AM: Mazungu!
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: SilverZ06 on May 24, 2014, 07:24:25 AM: Quote from: Shifty on May 22, 2014, 07:27:39 AM
Funny how the Alien has a British Accent..

:lol I was thinking the exact same thing.
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: rpm on May 24, 2014, 10:34:44 AM: Wasn't that the year a wealthy Afghan prince stole a nuke and was going to explode it during a circus on a US airbase in England, but some British MI-6 guy disarmed it in the nick of time? No, wait... that was '83.
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: Lusche on May 24, 2014, 04:36:05 PM: Quote from: rpm on May 24, 2014, 10:34:44 AM
Wasn't that the year a wealthy Afghan prince stole a nuke and was going to explode it during a circus on a US airbase in England, but some British MI-6 guy disarmed it in the nick of time? No, wait... that was '83.

That base was in West Germany :old:
Title: Re: Does anyone remember this crazy event in 1977 in England?
Post by: cpxxx on May 25, 2014, 10:18:59 AM: Quote from: ozrocker on May 22, 2014, 07:35:37 PM
I bet the BBC was trying to figure out how it happened :rofl
Doubt if the BBC was interested considering it was on an ITV station.

Maybe it was the USAF using one of these:

http://www.psywarrior.com/ec130.html