Shit happens! XD;

[silversolitaire]

Swedish television accidentally reports the death of the Pope.

Swedish TV blunder: 'Pope John Paul has died'
March 04 2005 at 01:19PM

Stockholm - Swedish public television mistakenly published an obituary for Pope John Paul II on its website, where it remained for more than five hours before it was taken down, the broadcasting company said on Friday.

"This was a very unfortunate mistake," Swedish public television, SVT, spokesperson Johanna Niemi said.

An SVT employee had been working on the pope's obituary in advance when they mistakenly hit a button that posted the text on the website, Niemi said.

Under a picture of the ailing pontiff in an audience with the Swedish king and queen, the website stated: "Pope John Paul has died".

"The text was posted at around 4pm on Thursday and remained online for about five hours," she said.

Writing obituaries in advance is standard practice in many large news companies, and SVT's policy is to write the text as soon as it becomes known that a very famous person has fallen seriously ill. - AFP

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[tsururu.livejournal.com]

Poor Pope. xD;