08 January 2012

TV Alert: ROFL Edition

This is too funny to pass up:
Here's information sent to local media about an Alaska-based episode of something called "Brad Meltzer's Decoded." 


"Starting next Wednesday (1/11), Brad and his team are heading to your home, the mysterious state of Alaska, to look into the existence of what is informally known as "The Alaskan Black Triangle," a mysterious area of Alaska that claims thousands of missing persons every single year and the government is trying to cover it up."

Thousands? Granted it's a wilderness, but ... thousands, really?  Okay, I'll bite: where is this mysterious mystery o' death located?
It's "a stretch of land between Juneau, Anchorage and Barrow."

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/01/07/2251861/alaska-ear.html#storylink=cpy

Oh. Is that all?

Shouldn't they look at a map before writing this tripe? The "triangle" they purport to describe would cover some 150,000 to 200,000 square miles, and most of it completely inaccessible except by air.

Really?

This is roll-on-the-floor hysterical stuff, folks. Juneau is accessible only by air or sea, and Barrow is tough to reach without a plane, too. If there were "thousands" of aviation deaths annually, wouldn't somebody have mentioned it before now?

Watch the show at your own risk, folks. What a farce!
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Read Thousmore here: http://www.adn.com/2012/01/07/2251861/alaska-ear.html#storylink=cpy

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

More than likely it would be the snowy white triangle and it is probably people who have moved to AK and don't want to be found.

jh

Rev. Paul said...

Yep - there are a LOT of folks up here who ran away from something further south. Not a good idea to ask folks where they're from, up here.

Anonymous said...

Television never allows the truth to get in the way of a bad idea.

Cassie said...

How funny. I've never heard of the show, but seems par for the course. TV has soooo much drivel on it. I glue my ear to the radio, listening to Dennis Prager and Michael Medved!

joated said...

Mighty long, skinny triangle if you ask me. Nearly a straight line on the map, isn't it?

[Eye roll]

Sheesh. We need to get back to teaching real geography.

Jenny said...

More likely it's someone figuring a way to put their Alaska vacation on the company credit card. :\