It was a strange night in Gotham City as the Missouri Highway Patrol sent out an alert to cellphones in the area to be on the lookout for a purple and green Dodge used by Batman’s nemesis, the Joker.
Although this may sound like the beginning, it is actually the beginning of something classic. “Batman”It was a TV series featuring Adam West and Burt Ward. The Missouri Highway Patrol accidentally sent out an alert to cellphones asking them to look for a 1978 Dodge 3700GT. “UKIDME,”The Associate Press reported.
The statewide alert sent Tuesday afternoon at 4:52 p.m. read: “GOTHAM CITY MO PURPLE/GREEN 1978 DODGE 3700 GT MO UKIDME,” Fox News reported.
The alert was issued to residents of Gotham City, Missouri, but here’s the hitch — there is no Gotham City, Missouri.
The car in question was the one used by Jack Nicholson’s character the Joker in the 1989 “Batman” movie directed by Tim Burton.
Authorities say that the alert was only supposed to be used internally to test their systems.
Missouri Highway Patrol said that their test of Missouri’s Blue Alert system was inadvertently transmitted statewide.
The system they were testing is meant to let the public know when a police officer is killed or seriously injured in the line of duty, Associated Press reported.
“During the test, an option was incorrectly selected, allowing the message to be disseminated to the public,” the news release stated.
The Missouri Highway Patrol also posted their message to disregard the alert on Twitter.
“”This was meant to be an experiment message, THERE WAS NOT AN ALERT,” they wrote on Twitter.