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6 Fish Fingers and Custard Issue 1 shouts of 'hit me'. Then the man in the mask waves a signal to the supposed second accomplice, who is operating the camera, and the footage ends. Audio on the tape was horrible, and the words are hard to make out. it would seem that 'Max' had some kind of grudge at WGN at the time, as he mentions that his break in is better than Chuck Swirsky, another WGN sports reporter at the time, and that he has made a masterpiece all over 'those greatest worlds newspaper nerds', an obvious reference to WGN, whose call letters stand for ‘Worlds Greatest Newspaper’, as they also own the Chicago Tribune newspaper. The other parts of the audio are just as bad, but Max takes the time to parody the Coke commercial ('Catch the wave!’), and sing for the viewers at home ('Your love is fading...'). When the sun rose over the city of Chicago, the next day the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) was not at all in a joking mood about the antics of the pirates the night before, starting a search of the Chicago land area for the masked man and his accomplices. The head of engineering at WGN at the time, Robert Strutzel said this incident was not a cheap prank to carry out, as quoted to the Chicago Tribune, saying: "You need a significant amount of (transmitting) power to do that.", while later an engineer for a station in Urbana Illinois said that the kind of transmitter with the power to that sort of signal hijack would cost between four hundred and six hundred thousand dollars. The video pirates to this day have never been caught, and the city of Chicago, while being partially amused by the signal hijack, also realized its seriousness as well, as stated by Bill Baxman of Des Plaines, Illinois at the time of the incident. "I was watching Doctor Who, when all of a sudden it came on.....I thought it was you know, a little cute at the time, but when you think about it, its not that cute...they could be interrupting something important." Indeed they could like Doctor Who... Besides being a footnote in Doctor Who history, this incident is one of the very few successful signal hijacks in history, and the video itself is odd to behold, it's even quite scary if you are in the right mood, and I cannot imagine what it was like to have this just pop up on your television screen late at night in November. If you intrigued by the video it can be found on You Tube with a simple search of 'Pirate incident' Channel 11 WTTW'. It is worth it just for it's oddness and it existence, and it's ever more scary then the Ruton. Imagine that. TOM SPYCHALSKI
7 Fish Fingers and Custard Issue 1 A BUNCH OF (DOCTOR WHO) FIVES 5 Things I Expect Matt Smith To Own • At least one (full) football sticker album • (Pirated) Classic Series’ DVD’s • At least one item of one of Karen Gillan’s costumes • (Broken) Doctor Who toys • A vast collection of hats 5 Things I Suspect Steven Moffat Does Whilst Writing • Writes ideas on his hands before typing it out • Makes sure there is as much noise as possible before he starts • Drinks Irn Bru • Curses under his breath as the dreaded Microsoft Paperclip pops up • Recycles lines from his previous works 5 Things I Want To See From Karen Gillan • More great facial expressions • More wearing of tights • Continued usage of the phrase ‘ma boys’ • A dress littered with ?’s, ala the JNT era • Her phone number 5 Actors Who Should Guest Star In Doctor Who • David Jason • Rik Mayall • Sean Pertwee • Graham Norton • Harry Sedgewick 5 Things That Tom Baker will do before agreeing to do Big Finish stories • Go hand gilding • Be England’s captain for the World Cup and replace John Terry at centre-half • Go to a convention and dress up as Tegan • Land on the moon • Guest star in the new series of Doctor Who, as The Master 5 Big Finish characters who are better than their television series counterparts • Evelyn Smythe (played by Maggie Stables) • Charlotte ‘Charley’ Pollard (India Fisher) • Lucie Miller (Sheridan Smith) • Thomas Hector ‘Hex’ Schofield (Philip Oliver) • Bernice ‘Benny’ Summerfield (Lisa Bowerman) 5 Doctor Who Stories That Would Make Good Adult Movie Titles • The Pleasure Hive • Planet of the Ooh • Galaxy 4-Some • Under-ware World • The Girl in My-place 5 Doctor Who ‘Agendas’, Made Up By Fans • The ‘Gay Agenda’ • The ‘Scottish Agenda’ • The ‘London Agenda’ • The ‘Earth’ Agenda • The ‘Poking Fun At Fans’ Agenda 5 Pointless Castings In Doctor Who • Hale and Pace • Gerald Flood • McFly • Barbara Windsor • Mike Skinner 5 Things That Would Happen If Doctor Who or Torchwood Was Ever Broadcast on FOX in the US • It’ll be subtitled • Each episode would be 3 hours long, thanks to advert breaks • The name of the program will always be shown as ‘Doc. Who’, whilst Torchwood will be ‘Torchwood:UK’ • Any gay/sexual references will be cut out. • John Barrowman will be cut out
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