This just happened in Belgium - Panic in our little country
 

Belgium has been "seperated" since ages in two sections, we have the Dutch speaking people who live in "Flanders" and the French speaking people who live in "Wallonie". In the ongoing political debate between Flanders and Wallonie in Belgium the Belgian TV channel RTBF was doing a show about it. They wanted to show the community the dangers of the current situation and in the program they gave a fake newsflash that Flanders had just declared independancy and our king has left the country. Little did they know that everybody took this "test" serious. As people started to panic, calling police departements and gathering into the streets the channel just kept reporting the fake news because they where not aware wat was going on. The governement got together in an emergency meeting believing we where going into a state of war. On top of that CNBC got a hold of the "situation" and started reporting about it.
Two hours later the army was in red alert, the governement was still in emergency meeting and people where on the streets protesting.
Then ON TOP OF THIS ALL the RTBF channel showed the buildings of our Belgian TV channel VRT as they got blown up, offcourse this was also fake.
After about 30 minutes more they realized what was going on and stopped the show and told people it was only a "prophesy" of what COULD happen and slowly everything went back to normal uphere.

Damn..... we Belgians are nuts! Especially the channel RTBF.

Here is a link to a Belgian news site about it but the article is in Dutch language: http://www.vrtnieuws.net/nieuwsnet_m...jk/index.shtml

If i can find and English article about it i will post it, i hope somebody saw it on CNBC.

Same thing happened here once, but it was Martians and the radio.

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War of the Worlds politics style.

I actually love Belgium. I fell in love with it on a visit a few years ago and it gets better each time I visit. The difference between the French and Flemish areas can be felt but both are nice (though the Flemish folk have been nicest to me with my American accent).

Belgium is also the strangest country I have been to and probably that is why I like it so much . Every time I go there something very odd happens. The first time as soon as we drove into Belgium a guy pulled up next to us with a life sized stuffed pig wearing a leopard skin bikini in his passenger seat..it got more weird from there.

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Oh man, that was classic! :thumbsup

panic is so big that I live in belgium and need to learn about it on GFY.com

The panic was situated in Wallonie as we in flanders don't look at RTBF, a Dutch speaking news channel reported about it but they where smart enough not to take things serious. They did show footage of the meeting of the Wallonie governement and people protesting holding pamflets with the Flanders "Lyon". First i thought was "WTF?? We declared independancy??" and started to laugh that Wallonie was really into this story and CNBC started reporting it.

Look to the VTM news tonight and see the footage in Wallonie, hillarious.

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hahaha thats some funny shit
you belgians are crazy as hell :1orglaugh

So the waffles are safe, right?

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Half of your country is called 'Flanders' ????? How fucked up are you?

Crazy people :D

ah Yes, "war of the worlds"

This occurred in 1938 Grovers Mill, New Jersey which is my hometown.

Much of the country thought we were under attack by Martians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War...ds_%28radio%29

lol same thing I was thinking of...

that is awesome...same t hing h appens here all the time...news reports one thing...when in reality..something quite different went on

i was in primary school grade 3-4 , aroun 10yo i think , anyway the teacher played a tape of something like that aliens taking over the world , i don't know why the fuck she played it for , but all i remember is that for weeks after i was scared shitless

difference is in the US it were adult who believed it :1orglaugh

Flanders - hehehe the simpsons

yeah, I wonder which one came first :Oh crap

Crazy people really. Like your fries though!