Photoshop Tornado Causes No Real Damage

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What kind of city official sends out the fire trucks after getting a poorly photoshopped tornado picture in an e-mail? Damn good thing no one sent the sheriff a picture of bigfoot. Just so you know, the fake tornado caused "no damage" to the town and no one reported it to 911. :rolleyes:

No 911 calls about a tornado were received and no damage was reported near the mall, Union Township Fire Chief Stanley G. Deimling said. A criminal charge of inducing panic could be filed if somebody faked the photos and maliciously circulated them.
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LMAO!! OMG!!!! How could they charge someone with inducing panic!!!!!?????

He made the pic and circulated it so quickly that it induced panic!? Man he must have some great bandwidth and be facebook friends with the ENTIRE town!
 
Facebook postings now count as malicious intent? Seriously, some things are just going way too far.
 
Nytegard said:
Facebook postings now count as malicious intent? Seriously, some things are just going way too far.
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As per the article, these photos were emailed directly to Emergency Management, Sheriff's office and others, as well as the facebook post.

If whoever emailed those groups responsible for responding to actual emergencies faked the images, whatever the intent,, then yes they were inducing public panic and deserve charges for their poorly thought out "joke".

Considering the area has had severe storms, and some of these areas with severe storms have suffered fatalities and significant damage, this is far from funny.
 
Yup, we had some really fugly weather this morning in this area, and I do believe that charges could be filed based on what this person did. If anything, this prick wasted valuable taxpayer resources by forcing them to respond to a hoax. If he did nothing other than put it up on FB, that is fine but he emailed it to emergency personnel. If anything, my belief is that this prick should be fined the amount in taxpayer resources that were wasted because he wanted to play a prank. When you look at how bad the weather has been in the last week, people are really worried right now. My basement frickin flooded again a few days ago, and i'm still cleaning it up.
 
anyone who has ever seen a tornado should have noticed that the clouds are the wrong type where the funnel is supposed to be dropping from. that and the trees around it seem like they are not moving much despite the winds should be much higher with tornado conditions. Then again I'm an exweather forecaster so I may be biased when I see the wrong clouds.
 
Emergency services are, by design, meant to be on a hair trigger. You simply do not mess with them.
 
Note to self.. Do not post pic of Space invaders attacking the capital building.. Might induce military panic..
 
Evil Juggalo said:
Note to self.. Do not post pic of Space invaders attacking the capital building.. Might induce military panic..
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drakken said:
anyone who has ever seen a tornado should have noticed that the clouds are the wrong type where the funnel is supposed to be dropping from. that and the trees around it seem like they are not moving much despite the winds should be much higher with tornado conditions. Then again I'm an exweather forecaster so I may be biased when I see the wrong clouds.
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Well, the issue at hand is that this could be plausible if the funnel was believed to be a cold core funnel cloud. Of course the conditions for a cold core funnel did not exist at this particular time, and those very rarely reach the ground like in this fake photo.

Whatever went through this morning was just ugly, with multiple confirmed tornado touchdowns in other counties. With all of that going on, i'm sure the emergency responders who have no training in this type of photoshop crap made the decision to respond.
 
AngryAngy said:
what exactly do fire trucks do about tornadoes?
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Firemen don't just put out fires. They're basically trained and equipped for getting people out of things. Like wrecked cars, fallen buildings, collapsed houses, tangled power lines, etc.
 
amdgamer said:
Whatever went through this morning was just ugly, with multiple confirmed tornado touchdowns in other counties. With all of that going on, i'm sure the emergency responders who have no training in this type of photoshop crap made the decision to respond.
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I'd rather have them err on the side of caution rather than start second guessing every call that comes in. As for the prankster, five months of community service (i.e. Emergency services) during tornado season, oughtta do the trick.
 
Steve said:
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BLASPHEMY!!!

It's photoChopped, you know, like in our subforum "PhotoChop", which is located in "Digital ArtWerk", not ArtWork.

I see no reason to advertise for that annoying company who makes that drawing program, any program can be used to PhotoChop. :eek:
 
Since when do police dispatch emergency vehicles based on an emailed picture? Granted, the guy was obviously looking to cause panic, or at least, confusion but the cops should have verified this before going on an all out goose chase, IMO. Now if the guy emailed the picture and included a statement with it (OMG...tornado @ teh mallz!!! Come quik!!!) then maybe it would have been a little more credible.
 
Pretty silly - I'm sure they received the email like this:

fw: fw: fw: re: RE: RE: FW: check out this tornado that just landed!
 
MindBuster said:
BLASPHEMY!!!

It's photoChopped, you know, like in our subforum "PhotoChop", which is located in "Digital ArtWerk", not ArtWork.

I see no reason to advertise for that annoying company who makes that drawing program, any program can be used to PhotoChop. :eek:
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True, but there is only one Photoshop that has zero competition. Don't tell me GIMP is a reasonable alternative. :D
 
hahahaha I work at that mall, classic Union Township response. If Union Township cops ever get a hold of the fella who sent these photos out they are gonna get a beating.
 
The FD responds to a silly, unsubstantiated photo rather than responding to a call? They should sue themselves for being so stupid. :rolleyes:
 
It's easier to fake a phone call rather than a picture. You have to actually do work to make a picture. Since you have to WORK at it, the typical prankster is just a lazy out of work idiot, and he's not gonna want to waste time with stuff, right?

I had a cop show up on my doorstep one night saying I ordered $200 worth of food from a Chinese restaurant in town, and gave them the phone number to my house.

The kid that pulled the prank (still no idea who it was), spent all of 30 seconds thinking of it, I'm sure. Give them someone else's phone number and call in an insanely large order.

If someone wanted to cause panic, much easier to use a phone. So when someone gets a picture with a tornado at the emergency services, why on earth would the first thing they think be 'Oh, this must be fake. Some kid obviously went and did this.'

Welcome to the real world. Where your actions have consequences.
 
Sly said:
I'd rather have them err on the side of caution rather than start second guessing every call that comes in. As for the prankster, five months of community service (i.e. Emergency services) during tornado season, oughtta do the trick.
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That is basically it as this is no joking matter. Look at the deep south as we have hundreds of people dead after that tornado outbreak. When a tornado strikes a moderately populated area like this, people get hurt and I praise the emergency response who wanted to get there as quickly as possible.

beowulf7 said:
The FD responds to a silly, unsubstantiated photo rather than responding to a call? They should sue themselves for being so stupid. :rolleyes:
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Tornados are NO laughing matter guy, and they kill people as the deep south realized yesterday during the massive severe weather outbreak. If someone is trapped or critically injured, seconds can make a difference between life and death.
 
amdgamer said:
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Tornados are NO laughing matter guy, and they kill people as the deep south realized yesterday during the massive severe weather outbreak. If someone is trapped or critically injured, seconds can make a difference between life and death.
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Yes, but how does someone in the FD seeing some picture on the 'net on some unknown/random website verify that there's something happen?
 
beowulf7 said:
Yes, but how does someone in the FD seeing some picture on the 'net on some unknown/random website verify that there's something happen?
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You can't. That's why calling fake 911 calls will get you into a ton of trouble.

Considering how the cameras on phones are tied directly to the mailing functions, sending a pictures these days are trivial. I could take a picture right now with my 2 year old phone and send it in two minutes. Less if the destination was on speed dial (the phone book has cellphone, landline, email, home page, etc. for each entry). I actually do that when sending pictures of receipts.

How hard is it for you to take a picture of your cat and send? How about a car crash?
 
Sly said:
You can't. That's why calling fake 911 calls will get you into a ton of trouble.

Considering how the cameras on phones are tied directly to the mailing functions, sending a pictures these days are trivial. I could take a picture right now with my 2 year old phone and send it in two minutes. Less if the destination was on speed dial (the phone book has cellphone, landline, email, home page, etc. for each entry). I actually do that when sending pictures of receipts.

How hard is it for you to take a picture of your cat and send? How about a car crash?
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Yes, if someone sent a fake picture to the cops and claimed a tornado was in that parking mall, then he should be charged the same as making a fake 911 call. But if he's just posting a Photoshopped picture somewhere and someone from the police saw it, then they shouldn't have acted on it without a more credible source, such as a phone call or e-mail to them.
 
beowulf7 said:
Yes, if someone sent a fake picture to the cops and claimed a tornado was in that parking mall, then he should be charged the same as making a fake 911 call. But if he's just posting a Photoshopped picture somewhere and someone from the police saw it, then they shouldn't have acted on it without a more credible source, such as a phone call or e-mail to them.
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The email with two photos attached was forwarded to the county’s Emergency Management Agency, the sheriff’s office and to other officials, who scrambled to check for damage and injuries, Chief Deputy Sheriff Rick W. Combs said.
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They didn't just happen to come across it. It was sent directly to them.
 
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