The Null Device

Only in America: A technical glitch briefly replaced cable TV channels in Detroit with an Arabic-language soap opera from a channel catering to Detroit's Arab-American community. Consequently, thousands of subscribers panicked, thinking that terrorists had hacked into the system.

"It's a sad sign of the times that Arab-language programming should create such fear," Black says.

(After all, only a supervillain like Osama Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein would stoop to such a dastardly act as targeting decent Americans' cable TV.) (via rotten.com)

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