Tsuniama

Dont know about the rest of the world, but i keep getting this forwarded email about a tsunami warning this weekend...

The email plainly reads:
Afternoon gentlemen, Please avoid swimming this week-ends as I have been alerted that USA had detected some tremor underwater which potentially could cause a huge Tsunami that could affect Penang too. The risk is very high and is advicable not to go off-shore. Stay away from the beach. Thanks.
Those fishing hunters are encourage to plan for some other weeks .Thanks. Please convey this message to your friends and relatives before they are the victims of this disaster.

Aside from this, i was informed that a local chinese newspaper flashed a similar warning about a tsunami alert this weekend...

Doesnt tsunamis' need a trigger, and arent those triggers usually earthquakes and arent earthquakes usually rather unpredictable? Also, there have been no notices from local governments or any relevant parties warning us of such occurences.

If i had knew relatives or friends heading to the beach for the weekend to chill out and told them that there is chance of a tsunami, who would go? they would just end up wasting a really good weekend right?

Worse still...if i told my uncle who fished for a living...he would have wasted a perfectly good oportuinity to earn a living right???

This email is obviously made to tap into the recent fear of tsunamis instilled in Penangites by recent events... What annoys me more is that IF a tsunami were to hit in the near future, these idiots are gonna be jumping up thinking they were getting the truth via spam...

Come the fuck on ppl...grow up or get outta the gene pool...