October 23, 2004
Television hardly ever gets better than this. An Oregon man discovered that his year-old Toshiba flat-screen TV was emitting an international distress signal picked up by a satellite, leading a search and rescue operation to his apartment in Corvallis, Oregon, 110 kilometres south of Portland.
The signal from Chris van Rossmann's TV was routed by satellite to the Air Force Rescue Centre at Langley Air Base in Virginia. On October 2, the 20-year-old college student was visited by a contingent of local police, civil air patrol and search and rescue personnel.
"They'd never seen a signal come that strong from a home appliance," Mr Van Rossmann said. "They were quite surprised. I think we all were."
He was told to keep his TV off to avoid paying a $US10,000 ($14,000) fine for "willingly broadcasting a false distress signal." Toshiba quickly contacted Mr Van Rossmann and offered to provide him with a replacement set for free.
Reuters
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Hahaha is this funny or what? Secretly they are building in distress signals... ready to make people go 'holy crap! I ain't watching illegal pr0n!' But how does a 20 yr old college student afford a flat screen tv??? @_@ rich bastard.
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