User blog:Ponyo Fan/Ponyo Fan's Unsolved Mysteries: Episode 4: The Cartoon Network Hijacking Incident of September 9, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-zkgIC0aCA

Welcome back to Ponyo Fan's Unsolved Mysteries. This episode, we're discussing the Cartoon Network hijacking incident of September 9, 2010.

On the night of September 9, 2010, at 10:00 pm EST, just as Cartoon Network USA was about to transition into their late-night adult programming block, Adult Swim, suddenly, the feed cut to test bars. And then, a bunch of random, shocking, slightly disturbing and eerie clips were played, including clips from series that had aired on Adult Swim and Cartoon Network before, such as Dragon Ball Z and Tenchi Muyo!. Static was then played, then the Adult Swim content warning, and then the opening to Shin Chan.

(NOTE: Another odd thing about this is Shin Chan had not aired on Adult Swim in over a year since said broadcast. The rest of the night went on without problems, though.)

Let me just first say is that researching this was the hardest thing ever. Very little sites even acknowledge this incident happened. I can't get any sort of evidence showing just where this incident happened (usually hijackings only can get their signal in one area at a time), and it took weeks to find the only video clip on the Internet of this incident, which I downloaded and reuploaded onto the YouTube video linked here.

Why does nobody have anything about this? Does nobody care because it was less then a minute? Is Cartoon Network looking into this? We don't know, and we may never know.