Dr Mumbo

Massive atrocity planned… nobody in any danger whatsoever

The story promise on the SMH home page…

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is (happily) not entirely fulfilled in the news story

smh_pipe_bomb_2Update: That, however would appear to be the least of the SMH’s worries today. The site is now reporting:

“If our readers couldn’t believe their eyes this afternoon, they weren’t alone. Neither could we.

“Our smh.com.au home page suddenly flashed back to February 9, 2009.

“And while we are not absolutely sure why yet, our IT specialists have a theory that a failsafe program set up in a production system that was decommissioned two years ago may have suddenly been triggered by a journalist seeking to update an old story in that system.”

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