Jim Carrey – "I woke up with 10 minutes to live"
<p>Actor Jim Carrey has described the mass panic that overcame thousands of people caught in the middle of the terrifying Hawaii ballistic missile warning, after an alert was accidentally issued to resident’s phones over the weekend.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/finance/legal/2017/06/jim-carrey-to-face-trial/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>55-year-old <em>Dumb and Dumber</em> star</strong></span></a> described the incident on Twitter, and how for a moment him and many other Hawaiians felt as though they had, “minutes to live”.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">I woke up this morning in Hawaii with ten minutes to live. It was a false alarm, but a real psychic warning. If we allow this one-man Gomorrah and his corrupt Republican congress to continue alienating the world we are headed for suffering beyond all imagination. ;^\ <a href="https://t.co/Kwca91IIy2">pic.twitter.com/Kwca91IIy2</a></p>
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/952284494257508352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2018</a></blockquote>
<p>“I woke up this morning in Hawaii with ten minutes to live,” Carrey wrote on Twitter.</p>
<p>“It was a false alarm, but a real psychic warning. If we allow this one-man Gomorrah and his corrupt Republican congress to continue alienating the world we are headed for suffering beyond all imagination.”</p>
<p>Thousands of people in Hawaii were thrown into panic by the false alert, with a second phone alert issued 38 minutes later confirming that it was a false alarm.</p>
<p>Many locals had already fled to bomb shelters, including former basketball star Magic Johnson who was photographed hamming it up with other residents by a Twitter user.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Just got this text from a friend re: Hawaii: <br /><br />“My friends are in a ‘fall out shelter’ in Hawaii due to the missile threat and hanging with Magic Johnson.”<br /><br />Get a false nuclear holocaust alarm, hang with a legend. Only in 2018... 🤦♂️ <a href="https://t.co/Lg0AwJUy5D">pic.twitter.com/Lg0AwJUy5D</a></p>
— John Haltiwanger (@jchaltiwanger) <a href="https://twitter.com/jchaltiwanger/status/952252012053303301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2018</a></blockquote>
<p>Hawaii Governor David Ige apologised for the incident at a press conference: “I am sorry for the pain and confusion it caused.</p>
<p>“I, too, am extremely upset about this and am doing everything I can do to immediately improve our emergency management systems, procedures and staffing.”</p>
<p>What’s your take on the incident?</p>
