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We get a lot of tips on the Chicagoist tip-line [tips (at) chicagoist (dot) com], some pretty good, others for stories we don't quite know how to cover. But we received one last night from a reader named "SF Truther" that caught our attention, pointing us to this website warning of a nuclear strike on Chicago on September 22, 2009. The logic used in the determination of that date is...faulty, at best. For example:
- 9/22/2009 is a Tuesday, as was 9/11/2001.
- 9/22/2009 is the first day of fall ("fall" being the operative word here).
- Illinois Lottery drawings are held at 9:22 p.m.
What's the most hard-to-believe part about this theory is that it claims the nuclear strike will come from inside the house! our own government. Honestly, several of us on staff are conspiracy theorists - and get all geeked over History Channel specials of that ilk - but this is a little too "out there" even for an episode of 24.
Still, if we're wrong and this whole city goes up in a cloud of vapor next Tuesday, don't say you weren't warned. But in the meantime, keep those tips coming!
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Wow. That's just all kinds of stupid.
The tinfoil-hatted cat, however, rocks.
Can you please link to this again on Sept. 23? I'd love to see what the website says then.
Still, if we're wrong and this whole city goes up in a cloud of vapor next Tuesday, don't say you weren't warned.
It better not - I've got hotel reservations for October!
So Chicago is doomed because it is "known as 'The Second City.'" Truly, that's logic you just can't argue with, ever.
can we push this back a smidge to the 26th? i'll be out of town. in fact, i'll be near where the nukes will be coming from, if Nutso McWhackjob proves correct, so that'll be the safest place on earth!
I wonder if the attacks include a general EMP attack that would disable the entire US power grid, or if we are merely talking about tactical nukes.
I hate it when nutjobs are not specific enough about our eventual doom.
I'm just glad I decided not to split Blackhawks season tickets with friends because man, that would have been a bummer.
Sweet! Who has the day off for the End Of The World?
Suck it, work!
We should throw a party. We'd have a blast.
Yes!
Like it's 1999!!
I was out of town. Did this happen, or no?