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I heard that someone from the media overheard a cell phone conversation where they said they found the miners and were checking vital signs. Apparently they took that to mean that they were alive. The governor said the crowd in the church went into a joyous uproar and he asked what was going on and was told that they found 12 miners alive. I figure, if the governor hadn't been told by anybody official, it shouldn't have been speculated on. He found out after about 20 minutes that they had been found but it was unknown what their medical status was.
Unfortunate, yes, common, yes. When we had the big black out of '03, as we were leaving our building we were hearing all kinds of rumors about how wide spread it was. We knew all of metro Detroit was out, but I heard a woman say that the power was out from California to New York.. the entire country. When chaos and high emotion are running rampant, there will be misinformation.
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